Robin Hobb After many years, dragons have hatched again outside the ancient city of Cassarick. But something is wrong with the creatures; each is inferior or weak in some way,...

Amin Maalouf There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name?In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and...

Stephen L Carter NATIONAL BESTSELLERLemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African...

Louis de Bernieres A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers.Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and...

Neal Stephenson For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world....

Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti 1 September 1683, Rome.Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna, as...

Robert Ferrigno Danny DiMedici's ex-wife Laura is missing, there's a corpse in her blood-spattered beach house, and Danny is the prime suspect. Desperate to get to Laura before the cops,...

Elizabeth George Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard...

Erik Axl Sund The most terrifying thriller you'll read this yearIt starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks.Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined...

CJ Sansom Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York.Already in the...

Laetitia Colombani Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage . . . like three strands...

Duncan Sprott This title is set in Egypt, 279 BC. Ptolemy II Philandelphus, unconcerned with stately affairs, prefers to think about science, concubines and feasting. His reptilian sister returns to...