Stefan Zweig Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin...

Author: Edmund Crispin Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the mean-spirited Edgar Foley, or could...

RL Stine NO MELTING ALLOWED!Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They've moved to a place called Sherpia. It's a tiny village on the...

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible. The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should...

Constance O'Day-FlanneryIf there's one thing Suzanne and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a...

Anna PointerAn intimate, definitive celebration one of the world's most influential artistsAs a painfully shy six-year-old singing in her parents' kitchen back in the late 1980s, it was impossible to...

CLR JamesBeyond A Boundary(The C. L. R. James Archives)Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book...

Bettina Selby Bettina Selby's latest journey by bicycle takes her to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. It is the corridor of ancient invasion fought...

Peter Reder, Sylvia Duncan and Moira Gray What can we learn from inquiries into cases of fatal child abuse? Beyond Blame offers a new way of looking at such cases...

Stephen Fay In an eerie echo of 1929's Black Thursday, which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, March 27, 1980, was dubbed Silver Thursday by a very fightened Wall...

Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson The Dead Do Tell Tales...A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition....

Roger KahnSpanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthology of the great Roger Kahn's writing, for a new generation of sports fansRoger Kahn, author of 19 books including the modern...