Neil MacGregor Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing...

Julian Barnes A fictional history of the world in which stories echo each other as themes deepen and images recur. The author also wrote "Metroland" for which he won the...

Lucy S Dawidowicz

Veronica Henry Sunshine, cider and family secrets... Dragonfly Farm has been a home and a haven for generations of Melchiors - arch rivals to the Culbones, the wealthy family who...

Molly Wizenberg March 23, 2010 by Simon & Schuster

Michelle BatesTom's cousin has lent him Chancey, her stunning chestnut gelding, for the summer. But the once proud horse is in a terrible state and the owner of Sandy Lane...

David Grossman The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed...

VS Naipaul Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds...

Caroline Moorehead 'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the...

Peter BullThe Herbert Press Limited

Lucy DillonLetters from the only man she's ever loved.A keepsake of the father she never knew.Or just a beautiful glass vase that catches the light, even on a grey day.If...

Sue GraftonA IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a...