Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the...

Nelson Demille and Thomas Block Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and...

Ken Blady Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach , Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in...

Charlotte Bingham It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham,...

Nick Ritchie President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drei suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his...

Sarah McCoy In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have...

Humphrey Hawksley Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay...

Seumas Milne A new edition on the 20th anniversary of the miners' strike. Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners' strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of...

Leila Tarazi Fawaz and CA Bayly Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic,...

Thomas Hardy Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons,...

Rosamunde Pilcher After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she'd spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie have always summoned the image...