VS Naipaul Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds...

Jonathan Coe This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and...

Jonas Jonasson The brand new, laugh-out-loud, around-the-world adventure from the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for....

Bill Bryson As his many British fans already know, bearded Yankee butterball Bill Bryson specialises in going to countries we think we know well, only to return with travelogues that...

John Farman Factually fascinating, incredibly unforgettable and fabulously funny, John Farman's updated hysterical history of Britain, Part II has new fact-filled chapters and cartoons to bring it bang-up-to-date. It's the...

Mary Roach What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be...

Kiran Desai After years of failure at school and work, and of spending his days dreaming in the tea stalls and singing to himself in the public gardens, it doesn't...

David Lodge Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But, when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation...

Woody Allen The illustrated screenplay of Woody Allen's most successful film to date, which has already received higher praise and bigger boxoffice returns than Annie Hall. Photographs. January 1, 1987...

Barney Stinson with Matt Kuhn From the pen of Barney Stinson comes the indispensable guide for every brother looking to score with the ladies. Featuring great plays from Barney Stinson's...

Toby Young In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown,...

Lynne Truss   In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty,...