Dan Wells John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his...

EM Forster A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy....

Julia Franck Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin. The father of her two children has supposedly committed suicide, and she wants to leave behind...

Andy McNab What if your prank killed your best friend. Could you live with yourself?You try to forget and move on; you enrol in Army training, you want to make...

Leah Johnson Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a...

Mark Childress Family tumult and nationwide social unrest converge to shake the world of 12-year-old orphan Peejoe Bullis in the summer of 1965, "when everybody went crazy in Alabama.''This wise,...

Nicholas Clee On average, people cook no more than two dishes from each cookbook they buy. Why? Because most of the other recipes seem just too daunting. This is where...

Mary Beth Keane A gripping and compassionate family drama set between neighbours in suburban New York.Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently...

Sunny Jacobs In 1976 a 28 year old mother of two and her partner were wrongfully sentenced to death by the Florida courts for the murder of two police officers....

Birgitta Hjamlarson With a handful of wealthy Gold Rush barons as indulgent patrons, an active community of artists appeared in nineteenth-century San Francisco almost overnight. A subculture of artistic brilliance...

David Nicholls One life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran...In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home...

Christopher Hibbert To Thomas Carlyle he was "not worth his weight in cold bacon," but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was "the kindest Minister" she had ever had and a...