Emma McLaughin and Nicola Kraus   Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a...

Alan JacobsThe White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the...

Edgar Allen PoeA stowaway aboard the New England whaler Grampus, young Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself an unwilling passenger on an extraordinary voyage. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, first published...

Richard FlanaganA novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you...

Richard Flanagan   Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of...

Author: Michael Connelly Harry Bosch confronts a villain who's long been hiding... he's called The Poet.Former FBI agent Rachel Walling has received the call she's been dreading for four years....

Anthony BourdainFor all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is Nasty Bits - a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth...

Gabe GalambosWhat if there existed a secret people, the secret people part of a secret nation, the secret People of the Nation secretly living right here among us in 21st...

Griff Rhys JonesThe Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems(The Nation's Favourite Poems)This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky'...

CDB BryanAn updated and enlarged edition of the centennial history of the National Geographic Society which first appeared in 1987. All text and pictures from the original book are included...

Shaun Johnson   Sam Jameson was eight years old when his father George died in shocking circumstances. He decides some forty years later, to finally open the box of his...

Bernard Malamud   The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also...