Charlotte Bingham It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham,...

Nick Ritchie President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drei suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his...

Sarah McCoy In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have...

Humphrey Hawksley Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay...

Seumas Milne A new edition on the 20th anniversary of the miners' strike. Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners' strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of...

Leila Tarazi Fawaz and CA Bayly Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic,...

Rosamunde Pilcher After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she'd spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie have always summoned the image...

Kitty Ferguson More than a biography, this book introduces both the life and theories of the world's most famous scientist. Interviews with Hawking and his colleagues tell the story of...

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are...

Michael Grant This is the story of Jewish civilization from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem & its Temple in AD 70. The book deals with Israel's relations with...

Compiled by Uma Das Gupta This book is a collection of essays of the late Professor Ashin Das Gupta - one of the pioneers of maritime history in India. It...