David Feldman Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom, this is...

Yo Man Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one-child policy.Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about...

Thomas Keneally In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker, and a...

Martin Buber Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, one of the most important leaders of aHasidic sect in the beginning of the 19th century, told 13 storiesbetween 1806 and the year he...

Karl Ove Knausgard Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.I have just finished writing this book for...

Alexandro Baricco Hector Horeau is an architect with a fantastical notion of whole cities made of glass, and Mr Rail has imagined sheets of glass larger than anyone thinks they...

Anne Enright An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But...

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives....

Edward Luce "Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking."-Sir Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Nuclear PhysicsTime to Start Thinking is a book...

Alex Scarrow Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been...

Eloise Jarvis McGraw In this exciting tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue, Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsmith...

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying...