Roy Jenkins A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only...

Max Brod Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man...

Rodman Philbrick Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad.Kevin is...

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner   Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug...

Elmore LeonardHe used to be on the bomb squad, but it's not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates "Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place...

Cecelia Ahern What if the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all along…Like stars in the night sky, freckles are...

Howard SounesThe true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history who loved and killed together as husband and wife.During their long relationship...

John Gardner A visiting lecturer begins reading a secret manuscript and enters an enchanting new world. Part history, part myth, the story conjures a 16th-century Sweden in which good and...

David W Blight **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**“Extraordinary…a great American biography” ( The New Yorker ) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the...

Ronald Sutherland Ronald Sutherland's Frederick Philip Grove is a comprehensive biography drawing upon numerous archival sources to provide an in-depth look at the life of one of Canada's most influential...

William Golding Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as...