Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a...

Emma Donoghue In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down...

Catherine Cookson Bridget Gether's parents had been killed in the wartime blitz and she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in the Northumbrian countryside, since she...

Tess de Loo A woman falls in love with a man who may or may not be her brother in this searing novel by de Loo (The Twins), which traces...

Sara Hamo On a bright day in 1979 Sara, a 34-year-old mother of two young daughters, discovers she has cancer. Although shocked and frightened, she realizes the physician himself is...

Piers Anthony For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there's nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses...

Paul Kearney   The Kingdom of Hebrion has been thrown into turmoil, following its release from the clutches of the Church. Its capital in ruins, its king in a coma,...

Piers Anthony In the mind of Xanth's precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect was to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting off with his...

Robert Asprin Skeeve was a magician's apprentice until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest...

Alex Comfort, MB, DSc The blockbuster classic--first published in 1972 and again a bestseller in its 1991 updated edition--is now available in a condensed, more affordable, compact edition. Designed to...

Kenneth L Marcus "What does it mean to be Jewish? This ancient question has become a pressing civil rights controversy. Despite a recent resurgence of anti-Semitic incidents on American college...

Lonely Planet All you need is Nepali! In the busy Durbur Square, make a connection with some well-chosen words. Get the low-down on the highlands from your porter as you...