Simon Cheshire"My name is Saxby Smart and I'm a private detective. I go to St.Egbert's School, my office is in the garden shed, and these are my casefiles. Unlike most...

Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning...

Terry Deary From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories...Norway, 793 AD. Fleece was snatched by Viking warriors when she was a young girl. Now she must work for a bullying...

Dean Koontz A mother's deepest desire - or worst nightmare - comes true when she receives messages that her dead son might still be alive. January 1, 2008 by Headline

Clayborne Carson, David J Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his...

Juan Williams Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v . the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage...

Jasper FfordeThere is another 1985, where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's Mr Big.Acheron...

Joel C Rosenberg When Russia's richest oil baron is killed, Moscow suddenly teeters on the verge of political chaos. Tehran races to complete its nuclear arsenal. Washington finds herself dangerously...

David DeutschAn extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which...

Brian GreeneFrom Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look...

Philip Jose Farmer Departing from the exploits of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat follows the efforts of...

Joachim Fest In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis—including Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Röhm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Höss, Albert...