Wilbur Smith On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close...

RA SalvatoreLife is good for Drizzt Do'Urden, better than it ever has been for the beleaguered dark elf. His dearest friend, the dwarf Bruenor, has reclaimed his throne, and his...

Martha GrimesAfter a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace...and goes no further. Days later,...

Clare FrancisIn the next instant the man was looming over her. She saw the bat raised above his head, ready to strike.Catherine Galitza has been badly injured by an intruder...

Len Deighton   January 1942. Rommel’s seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt – perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself.Rommel has a spy in the city –...

DJ TaylorD.J. Taylor introduces the reader to comedy duo Ted King and Arthur Upward, who were for a brief period in the late 1970s, the best-loved comedians on British television....

Nancy PriceWhen her new lover expresses overly keen interest in the life story of her late husband, a mentally unstable author whose books she actually wrote, Mary Eliot decides to...

Martha GrimesOver three successive nights, stranger Harry Johnson sits in the London Pub "The Old Wine Shades" and tells a story to Richard Jury about a good friend of his...

Anita Desai   A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds...

Patricia Reilly GiffHollis Woodsis the place where a baby was abandonedis the baby's nameis an artistis now a twelve-year-old girlwho's been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember...

Bebe Moore CampbellChicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in...

Ellen MilesWelcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home!Charles and Lizzie Peterson are very good with puppies. They want one of their own, but their mom has never...