Sophie Hannah Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick.Last year, a work trip Sally had planned was...

Jonathan MooreImagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductiveDr Caleb Maddox is an expert on pain. A leading San Francisco toxicologist, he is mapping the chemical...

Elizabeth Fremantle In the autumn of 1615 scandal rocks the country. A celebrity couple are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. She is young, captivating and from a notorious family. He...

Erin Kelly   It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives...

Paul Doherty A new novel of murder in the reign of Pharoah Hatusu featuring Judge Amerotke as the crime-solver. At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes,...

Barbara Kingsolver "A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of...

Jeanette Sebrig Lowry In this cherished childhood classic, a puppy who is always late coming home one night finds there is no dessert for him.One of the original 12 Little Golden...

J.M. Coetzee The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his...

Malka Adler In the eye of the warThat tore the world apartA mother wants a sonA daughter needs a motherWinter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home...

Alan Furst September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His to transport the national gold...

Edited and Translated by Ernest Barker Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and...

David WiseWhy has the government of the most powerful democracy in the world found it necessary to mislead its own people. The Politics of Lying is the first book to...