Harry BowlingThe classic novel from the much-loved King of Cockney sagasIronmonger Street in 1920 is one of the most unsightly turnings in Bermondsey, its residents hardened to the grim poverty...

JD Wyss and Daniel DefoeThe Swiss Family Robinson is an adventure novel co-authored by Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss. It has a plot that exemplifies family ideals and...

James Joyce   "Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? To give people some kind of...

L Frank BaumThe Emerald City is built all of beautiful marbles in which are set a profusion of emeralds, every one exquisitely cut and of very great size. There are...

Helen DunmoreIn her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War....

Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New...

Benjamin C BradleeBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They...

Jim Bishop"THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SHOT" is the first complete minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, person-by-person account of the events of November 22, 1963.Jim Bishop began work on this book the Sunday following...

Bill and Kathy Kvols-RiedlerTheir kids aren't following the rules and your customers say they're sick and tired of it? They complain that every conversation ends in a power struggle?Parents looking...

John Williams   A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical...

Staughton LyndNonviolence in America is a comprehensive compilation of first-hand sources that document the history of nonviolence in the United States from colonial times to the present. Editors Staughton and...

Henry Fielding   Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest.Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is...