Jasper FfordeThere is another 1985, where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's Mr Big.Acheron...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates A celebrated but reclusive author, generally regarded as a somewhat idiosyncratic bachelor, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly admits to himself that he can...

Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and SpiritA bold account of the development of human consciousness and spirituality over the ages...

Mary ShelleyTo many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Mary Shelley began it, she was only 18,...

Haruki Murakami   A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny...

Family Guide to Homeopathy: Symptoms and Natural SolutionsDr Andrew LockieA Safe, Natural, and Effective Alternative MedicineMillions of people, including health professionals, are mining to homeopathy, a form of medicine that...

David Grossman"A fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's new novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can...

Fay WeldonFrom life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England's bestselling authors and most popular exports, Fay Weldon has crammed more than most into her...

John LescroartA Plague of Secrets(Dismas Hardy #13)ay Beans West, the coffee shop at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, is always crowded with customers, and manager Dylan Vogler has done...

Alice HoffmanWriting at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love.Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the...

John Lescroart"People" magazine crowns him "a master." "The San Francisco Chronicle" calls his bestselling novels "compulsively readable." And Larry King hails his legal thrillers as "spine-tingling." In "The Oath," John...

Jasper FfordeThursday Next, literary detective and registered dodo owner begins her married life with the disturbing news that her husband of only a month drowned thirty-eight years ago, and no...