People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...

Edited by David Crystal "Penguin"'s bestselling "Penguin Book of Facts" is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date general fact book available. Organized in thematic sections that cover topics as diverse...

Dorothy Parker The Penguin Dorothy Parker contains stories and poems published collectively in 1944; late uncollected stories, articles and reviews; and the contents of Constant Reader (her New Yorker book reviews) - in...

JM Roberts Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations...

Hugh Brogan This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a...

Samsom Raphael Hirsch This new English rendering of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirschs brilliant German translation and commentary on the Torah is the perfect introduction to Hirsch. Trumath Tzvi features a...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerSaid by Singer to be his favourite among all his books, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro's search for salvation. After escaping the Nazi terror,...

Hanya Yanagihara Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction-including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter Matthiessen's At Play...

Clare Pooley No one speaks to strangers on the train. What would happen if they did?Every day at 8:05, Iona Iverson boards the train to go to work. As a...

Jeffrey Toobin Now a major BBC TV series.The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J. Simpson is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written...

James PattersonThis time it's Alex Cross on trial.Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Serving a suspension from the force while he awaits trial for murder, Cross...

Jeff GreenfieldAn Emmy Award-winning political commentator for ABC-TV news offers a satirical--but frighteningly plausible--novel about the chaos, wheeler-dealers, high-rollers, and innocent bystanders that rush in when a president-elect dies before...