Roberto Bolano Composed in the last two years of Bolaño's life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness,beauty, and scope. Its throng of...

Julian Barnes We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.Her ideas are not to everyone's taste.But she will change the...

Emma Donoghue Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young...

Lawrence James A new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. January 1, 2014 by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group...

Kurban Said First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet.  Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a...

VV Ganeshananthan Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path...

Olga Tokarczuk FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with...

Annie Ernaux Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to...

Oded Galor This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future...'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery'...

Simon Sebag Montefiore From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have...

Michelle Obama Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.How do we build enduring and honest relationships?How can we discover strength and community inside our differences?What do we do...

Joseph E Stiglitz From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be...