Lore Segal'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' ObserverNine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled...

Lore Segal Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel. Nine months after...

Rosie ThomasThey were 'the five families' - the pleasant hospitable Frosts, the brash and sexy Cleggs, flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star, maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome, Michael Wickham...

Charles V BagliIn just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors’ dollars on a single deal. The New York Times reporter...

Leslie Thomas At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast.Abandoned by his...

Barbara Michaels The Barnes & Noble Review:The old-fashioned ghost story has never fallen out of style: Charles Dickens is still best remembered for A Christmas Carol, and Peter Straub, despite his...

Author: William Sutcliffe Can three mothers save their shiftless sons from themselves—in just one week?Gillian, Helen, and Carol are three suburban mothers who have known each other since their respective...

James Herbert Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He carries a secret about himself to which not even he has the...

Judy Blume   Sheila Tubman is not quite sure who she is. Just when she's convinced that she really is confident, witty Sheila the Great, she is confronted with her...

Judy BlumeSheila hates swimming. And dogs. And ghosts. And thunderstorms. She'll do anything to avoid them all - except admit that she's scared.Her new friend Mouse Ellis, yo-yo champion of...

Charlotte Haptie Otto is our endearingly bewildered young hero whose world suddenly becomes very odd. Going with his father, Albert, to the FireBox Launderette, Albert is called to help with...

Howard Pyle A rich and engrossing thread of Romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant robber baron of Medieval Germany. Young Otto, born into a...