Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the...

Author: Jo NesboIn the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their...

Kathryn HughesEvery so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number One...

Kathryn Hughes Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number...

Arturo Toscanini Fifty years after his death, Arturo Toscanini is still considered one of the greatest conductors in history, and probably the most influential. His letters, expertly collected, translated, and...

The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu: The Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force: Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Operation 1963-1976Jonathan NetanyahuThe Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu "Yoni, " as he was known...

Eric Ambler Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family’s Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager,...

Thomas L Friedman n The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, offers an engrossing look at the new international...

Stephen Fry   Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too...

Mark Lawrence The Red Queen has set her players on the board...Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the longed-for luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North...

Petronella McGovern From the bestselling author of Six Minutes and The Good Teacher comes a compelling family drama of marital secrets and family tensions set within an investigation of sinister...

Joseph Grimond January 1, 1963 by Hollis and Carter