Diana Kuan America's love affair with Chinese food dates back more than a century. Today, such dishes as General Tso's Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Egg Rolls are as...

Mark Urban When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had...

Solomnick Abraham Maskilon Practical Hebrew Grammar - For beginning and intermediate Hebrew students, this is a straightforward, non-technical guide to grammar that is indispensable for everyday speaking, reading and writing....

Karen M McManus The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from...

Alexander McCall Smith In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling series, Mma Ramotswe must contend with her greatest challenge yet—a vacation!Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies’...

John Le Carre Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the...

NewScientist In this latest bumper collection of questions and answers from the popular "Last Word" column:- Why does Weetabix cling like cement?- What is earwax for?- Why are there only...

Simon Dawson From the jacket: Aged just 32, Simon Dawson took a risk. He sold his London flat and moved his wife and Great Dane to a cottage in Devon....

Elias Chacour As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their...

Andrew Gimson THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER'My biography of the year' Michael Crick'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken LivingstoneA brilliant and definitive biography of...

Peter Ackroyd From the author of the bestselling The Biography , a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London.This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing...

Rachel Hore The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again...Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a...