Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way...

Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary is an unhappy orphan forced to live in the home of a wealthy guardian - a busy man who has no time at all for her.But...

Donna Tartt Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and...

Why has the War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes,tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and...

Santa Montefiore   The Secret Hours (Deverill Chronicles #4)   My curiosity is aroused. I realise, to my shame, that I know nothing about my mother, nothing at all... nothing...

Lauren Barnholdt Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a total liar, and now, right in the middle...

Kate Morton During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the...

Paul Harris One man's search for the truth in war-torn Sierra Leone, where the rules of civilized society don't apply...Journalist Danny Kellerman receives an urgent letter from an ex-lover in...

David MametDavid Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media...

Fiona Neill For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It's been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since...

Ann CameronAmanda Woods is discovering that there are some things in life you just can’t change, like who your parents are or how your older sister treats you, but she...