Sandi Toksvig It's April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out...

Max Dimont Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through...

Richard Price The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date.A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and...

Kim Chernin The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments...

Len Deighton A special edition of Deighton’s classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest ‘what-if?’ novel about the Second World War, to tie in with the new major BBC series...

Roy Jenkins A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only...

Josephine Tey It was the portrait of a man...A judge? A soldier? A prince?When Grant turned over the picture, to his surprise the caption read ‘Richard the Third’. He spent...

Dick Morris Dick Morris has written the ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton, one that is certain to stir controversy about the way politics really works...

Taylor Branch In Parting the Waters , the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” ( The...

Paul Levine Award-winning author Paul Levine captures the dark side of the legal world with gripping, mordantly witty prose that "gets leaner, meatier, better with every book" (Miami Herald). Now,...

Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories is a collection of short stories or fables by Rudyard Kipling. This volume includes:How the Whale Got His ThroatHow the Camel Got His HumpHow the...

Christopher Hill The translation of the Bible into English in the 16th century was one of the most important events in English history. Hill explores the influence the Bible had...