Jonathan Kaufman 'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism...

Author: Arthur Miller Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.Eddie...

Author: Arthur Miller In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War has been torn down by...

Alex von Tunzelmann An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth centuryThe stroke of...

Alafair Burke A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.It was meant to be a harmless prank.Growing up, May Hanover was a good...

Jiang Rong Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst...

AN Wilson This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and...

Valérie Zenatti I'm full of fear and full of hope writing to you like this. I've never written to someone I didn't know. It feels strange. I don't know if...

Andrea Camilleri “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike...

Charles Dickens In October 1843, Dickens hit upon the idea of writing a story that would not only celebrate Christmas but alert people to the desperate needs of England's poor....

Neil J Kressel From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil Kressel documents in this startling book, the Muslim world has...

Kara Cooney Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable...