Author: Richard North Patterson Corey Grace--a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio--is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the...

Mark KurlanskyHomer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning,...

John BurdettA thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.Witnessed by a throng of...

John leCarreJohn le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical...

David BrownIsaac Green, Brahim Surin, and Jim Murphy are known on Wall Street as the three bulls. The day they started World Corporation, they made a pact: one for all...

Khushwant Singh"I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands."Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum...

Minette WaltersWhen a local councillor and an anthropologist re-investigate the controversial murder conviction of a mentally retarded 20-year-old, they're unprepared for the disturbing facts that come to light--and the personal...

William BoydWhen Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this...

Tanis RideoutThe Paris Wife meets Into Thin Air in this breathtaking debut novel of obsession and divided loyalties, which brilliantly weaves together the harrowing story of George Mallory's ill-fated 1924...

Sena Jeter NaslundUna Spenser is sent away as a child to live in a lighthouse, but runs away to sea disguised as a cabin boy, going on to encounter disasters,...

James PattersonFor seven unsuspecting victims, death comes in the dark . . .Once a luxurious getaway for a wealthy Southern family, the Summer House has long since fallen into disrepair....

Sam Apple   Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd   In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic comes a hilarious...