Elizabeth Fremantle A clanking iron giant topples from a cliff and lies smashed on the rocks below. Then, his various parts begin to stir and reach out for one another....

David Baldacci From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women—one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist—go head-to-head...

Jonathan Kellerman In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his...

Jonathan Kellerman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned...

Allison Brennan 11 hours, 11 minutesA child is shot while playing video games at home. His mother will stop at nothing to find out who did it—and why.After their ten-year-old...

Bill Bryson How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and...

Irvine Welsh These five stories remind us that Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller and, unarguably, one of the funniest and filthiest writers alive.In Rattlesnakes,...

Gerald Friedlander Twenty-three authentic tales from ancient sources transport readers back to a land at the crossroads of folklore and religion. Stories include "The Magic Apples," "The Goblin and the...

Christopher Paul Curtis It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going...

Paul Gannon In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of the Second World War, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in...

John Hegarty A look into what lies behind great ideas and brilliant advertising, told by one of the industry's leading players. What makes a great idea? How does one best...

Henry Petroski Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this...