Katherine DunnGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of...

Anthony RyanWe have fought battles that left more than a hundred corpses on the ground and not a word of it has ever been set down. The Order fights, but...

Ben AaronovitchA WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAPIt begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student...

Rebecca Stead   Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life,...

JRR TolkienThe Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins,...

Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth.The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of...

JRR Tolkien Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a...

Author: Jules Verne With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies.Translation by Louis Mercier.Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a...

It all starts when Lilah Kemp - librarian, spiritualist, schizophrenic - inadvertantly lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Heart of Darkness and is unable to get him back in.While...