Susan Fromberg SchaefferAffaire royale: Amnesiac princess Gabriella needs protection against scheming kidnappers and finds herself in the company of bodyguard Reeve MacGee. Command performance: Prince Alexander falls for someone from...

Robert Harris   Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, at a...

Ian McEwan   Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have...

Winston Groom The author of Forrest Gump recreates the brave, desperate campaign of Confederate General John Bell Hood to turn the tide of war, from the fall of Atlanta to...

Patrick Robinson He was one of the world's most skillful submariners, trained by the best in the business, the Royal Navy. Now, at the peak of his powers and skill,...

Peter Grimsdale When CIA operative Kovic is forced to go rogue, he must team up with one of the enemy in order to stop the world's biggest superpowers from going to...

Ron Leshem   Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years....

Mark UrbanBig Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRAIn this book, defence specialist and war correspondent Mark Urban explores covert operations against the IRA from the...

Hadley Freeman After October 7, many on the left justified, dismissed or championed acts and beliefs they otherwise view as unconscionable. Why?‘October 7 was horrific. Then came October 8, and...

Conn Iggulden January 1, 2009 by Harper

Marion F SturkeyBonnie-Sue: A Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam"Bonnie-Sue" begins as a timeless classic, a story of men in combat. Yet, the book soars above the mud of war....

Manuel RivasOn 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young...