Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the bestseller list with his superb London crime series. A unique blend of police procedural, loving detail about the greatest character of all, London, and a...

Cecilia SamartinIn "Broken Paradise" Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people...

Linwood BarclayDavid Harwood is asked to look in on his cousin Marla, still traumatised after losing her baby, and he considers it a temporary relief from his dead-end life. But...

Tom Bower When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, he was, at 43, the youngest to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide majority, his approval rating was...

John Clarkson James Beck learned the value of loyalty the hard way. Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, he developed a keen sense of right and wrong. And,...

Jennifer Montagu New York Octopus Books Limited, 1972. Complete with 137 illustrations in color & black and white. Recants of the rediscovery of bronzes in the Italian Renaissance, the methods...

Emily Barton A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearSince her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across...

Colm Toibin   It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for...

Ehud Sprinzak A prominent Israeli political scientist traces the history of extremist violence in Israeli politics, from the time of David Ben-Gurion to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,...

Ellis Peters A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES. In 1137 the head of Shrewsbury Abbey decided to acquire the remains of St Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part...

Crawford Kilian SCIENCE DISCOVERED IT.Tiny implants in the brain that enhanced intelligence and established mind-to-mind links between species that had previously been isolated and mute. Dogs, monkeys and man could...

Dean Koontz NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLoop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For...