Juliet Ashton A house holds the hearts of the people who live in it. Under the roof of The Blue House, a now shabby but previously grand Georgian villa in...

Dyan Sheldon "High school has always been this stressful, but rarely this hilarious." --BOOKLIST (starred review)More famous than ever after hitting the silver screen, the ever-dramatic Lola Cep is still...

RF Kuang Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The...

Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events...

William Brodrick Larkwood Priory, Suffolk, 1995: Following his afternoon confessions, Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has...

Flavius Josephus Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70....

Dick Francis Sid Halley had been a champion jockey. But those days were lost in a fall beneath 500 pounds of horse that cost him his left hand and his...

Mariah Stewart WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DEAD WHEN THEY SCREAM BLOODY MURDER?Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a plea...

Chris Voss A field-tested, game-changing approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.Never Split the Difference is a riveting, indispensable handbook of negotiation principles culled and perfected from Chris...

Sue Grafton   Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has...

Ana Huang Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape.Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for...

Elif Shafak In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for)...