Ian McEwan   Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the...

Mike McCormackMarcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind...

Gene Wolfe Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on the world...

Javier CercasIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the...

Hans Hellmut Kirst An extraordinary novel about the Officers' attempt on Hitler's life. August 1, 1967 by Bantam Books

Dean KoontzJoe Carpenter's wife and two children perished with more than three hundred others in the crash of United Airlines Flight 353. But one year later, haunted by the loss...

Graham Masteron Barney Blitz's obsession for a huge flawless diamond called the Natalia Star blots out every other love and loyalty January 1, 1982 by William Morrow & Co

Mordecai RichlerMoses Berger is very young when he first hears the name that will obsess him and drive him on a quest across Canada and Europe. His life becomes consumed...

Adam BladeSix fearsome beasts have been cast under an evil spell by the Dark Wizard Malvel, and are destroying the kingdom of Avantia. Our hero Tom and his friend Elenna...

Solve-It-Yourself MysteriesHy Conrad and Bob Peterson

Jane Smiley The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After...

Karl Ove Knausgard At twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations.Soon...