Ben Okri You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely...

Umberto Eco A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity...

Ernest Hemingway The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.A poignant look...

Florence Knapp In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in...

Samantha Harvey Life on our planet as you've never seen it before.Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data and conduct scientific...

Timothy Brennan SHORTLISTED FOR THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDSDrawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of...

J.M. Coetzee The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his...

Caroline Moorehead A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe—and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream...

Martin MacInnes An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of...

Anthony Burgess In a sweeping historical novel moving from the sinking of the "Titanic" to World War II and the birth of Israel, two families--one Welsh and one Irish--are bound...

Kingsley Amis Patrick Standish finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of woman trouble involving his neighbors, his coworkers, and his lovely wife, Jenny. January 1, 1989 by Penguin...

Joyce Carol Oates Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. Her sister's ex-fiancee, a decorated Iraq War veteran struggling with his...