James Patterson Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They may be two of the biggest movie stars in the world, but they're also great...

Sun Tzu The original and bestselling leadership book!Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries. Today they can still be applied to business,...

Abdulrazak Gurnah While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own...

Frank Paratnoy FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy...

Juliet Ashton A house holds the hearts of the people who live in it. Under the roof of The Blue House, a now shabby but previously grand Georgian villa in...

Dyan Sheldon "High school has always been this stressful, but rarely this hilarious." --BOOKLIST (starred review)More famous than ever after hitting the silver screen, the ever-dramatic Lola Cep is still...

RF Kuang Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The...

Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events...

William Brodrick Larkwood Priory, Suffolk, 1995: Following his afternoon confessions, Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has...

Flavius Josephus Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70....

Dick Francis Sid Halley had been a champion jockey. But those days were lost in a fall beneath 500 pounds of horse that cost him his left hand and his...

Mariah Stewart WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DEAD WHEN THEY SCREAM BLOODY MURDER?Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a plea...