David W Maurer'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con. A professor of linguistics who...

Paul Fehribach An original look at southern heirloom cooking with a focus on history, heritage, and variety.You expect to hear about restaurant kitchens in Charleston, New Orleans, or Memphis perfecting...

Jasper Fforde It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty Stuyvesant Van...

Douglas Kennedy On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But...

Dick King-Smith

John J MillerJohn J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football—a game that would become the nation’s most popular sport. Miller’s sweeping, novelistic retelling...

Ronald Asprey 'The Big Short Break' is the first in a series of experience-led travel books. It is a progression from hotel-focused books and combines first-hand specialist knowledge with vibrant...

Author: Michael Lewis The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity...

David BennettWith the help of his younger brother and sisters, Ben searches the garden for the birthday present his parents have hidden there.First published January 1, 1988

Nicholas Carr "Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable―for nontechies, too."― Fast Company Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big...

Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his...

Beatirce CooganThis monumental historic novel, often described as the "Irish Gone With the Wind", brings to life an entire generation of Irish history. The story opens on the night of...