Cristos Tsiolkas   At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends,...

Marcus Rediker Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime...

Hugh Thomas After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions,...

Caroline Lawrence This exciting adventure gives fascinating insight into the workings of the Roman legal system in a page-turning court room drama. As always, Caroline Lawrence springs new surprises for...

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Jeffery DeaverSpecial Agent Kathryn Dance reads people the way other investigators read crime scenes. But she's never seen eyes like Daniel Pell's.In 1999, Daniel Pell murdered an entire family. Only...

Graham Masterton When a helicopter crashes, the bodies of a young Supreme Court justice and his wife are found bizarrely mutilated, and their daughter's body is missing. An insurance investigator...

Joseph Knox‘He said he didn’t remember killing them…’As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass...

Paul GrossmanIn the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets....

Ben Greenman What would happen if you invited Lorrie Moore, Mona Simpson, Tom Perrotta, and Steven Wright to a suburban barbecue? Something like this wry and wistful new novel of...

Marc David A revolutionary approach to enhancing metabolism that enables lasting weight loss and facilitates spiritual well-being• Presents an eight-week weight-loss program• Explains how relaxed eating stimulates metabolic function and...

Frances Quinn When should my story begin? Not when I was born, a butcher's son, in a tiny cottage just like all the other tiny cottages in Oakham. Who'd have...