Ben Lerner From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of...

AB Yehoshua The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America....

Doris Lessing In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi A huge international bestseller, Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Mandfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece.Who...

John Updike On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back...

Colleen McCullough A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn BirdsIn this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse , Colleen McCullough turns her attention...

Nathan MacDonald What food did the ancient Israelites eat, and how much of it did they consume? That's a seemingly simple question, but it's actually a complex topic. In this...

Martin Dean What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust? Using powerful eye-witness descriptions from the towns and villages of Belorussia and Ukraine, Martin Dean's book...

Andrew Taylor From the No.1 bestselling author of The Last Protector and The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time...

Sebastian Faulks Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country' An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening StandardAs young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the...

Doris Lessing In this illuminating, moving memoir Doris Lessing, the Nobel laureate, gives us a tale of two halves, of fiction and memory. She revisits her parents' lives as they...

Scott Lynch In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist...