John Grisham   Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street...

Harlan CobenA decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have...

Bill Clinton   President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and...

Roddy DoyleBy the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, this is the life history of Paula Spencer - her contented childhood, her romance...

Jonathan Safran Foer   Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having...

Tessa Hadley'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie SmithFour siblings meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie...

Michael Ondaatje   With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World...

Naphtali Lau-LavieBalaam's Prophecy is a personal account of Jewish history in the years 1939-89. Written by Ambassador Naphtali Lau-Lavie, journalist and diplomat, who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps...

Tuvia Tenenbom   Catch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold...

Richard FlanaganYoung and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding...

Bernard MalamudIn A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin,...

Thomas MannFelix Krull was a young and good-looking lad who created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth and to allow him to pursue a...