Ruth RendellIn traditional fairytales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after. But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary...

Ruth Rendell   The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.'A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving...

Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

Peter Ho Davies In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams...

Anne Tyler   "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon..." This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks...

Ruth RendellMary Jago donates her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a violent break-up with her brutish boyfriend.Moving...

Primo LevyIn this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by...

Sophie KinsellaWorkaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership.Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of...

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre   The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds...

Moshe Weissman The weekly Torah readings occupy, and rightly so, a prominent place in the Jewish child's heart and mind. 'The Little Midrash Says' series was created to facilitate the...

David B Yoffie and Michael A CusumanoThe authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of...

Karni Eldad and Shlomo Bashan