Chaim ShapiroHe left war-wracked Poland with his mother's tearful parting words ringing in his ears, "Go, my son", she urged him. And he went. In this timeless, spell-binding autobiographical, Chaim...

Michael RosenThe brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner-If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you...

Zadie Smith   "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream...

Jennifer Weiner   When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the...

Mieko KawakamiOn a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing...

John Galsworthy   John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s...

Elin Hilderbrand   By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer...

David LodgeA MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS.A MAN OF PASSION.A MAN OF THE FUTURE.Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and...

Vicki MyronHow much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library,...

Jeannette Walls Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson. This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty...

Henry HemmingA beautifully written portrait of the post-9/11 Middle East that transports the reader into the human heart of the regionWhen Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called...

Meggan WattersonHarvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson marched out of her church at age ten. With little-girl clarity, she knew something tremendously crucial was missing…the voices of women. Watterson became a theologian...