Robert Lavelle This companion to PBS-TV's upcoming "America's War On Poverty" series offers a profound look at one of America's most pressing problems. Through gripping interviews, stories, essays, profiles and...

Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor...

Bill Bryon Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful...

Gay Courter The murder of a scientist serving as an advisor to an Israeli intelligence agent compels Eli Katzar, head of the Ezra group, to uncover a traitor among his...

CJ Sansom A #1 internationally bestselling novel set in post-Civil War Spain by the author of Dominion and the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series September 1940: the Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid lies in ruin,...

JC Davis This comprehensive new study provides an original and provocative approach to Cromwell's reputation and his role in the English revolution. J. C. Davis's penetrating analysis reveals Cromwell's successes...

Charles C Mann In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Contrary to...

Charles C Mann NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491 . • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing...

Patricia Cornwell Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's...

Doris Lessing A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois...

Megan Miranda Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer—all on one street.Hollow’s Edge use to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic...

Connie Willis For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century...