Fatima Mernissi An exotic and magical narrative tells the story of a woman born in a harem in Morocco, growing up with wise, funny, individualistic women, and creating a fantasy...

Antonia Fraser Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was...

Gordon Ramsey Easy, home-style recipes from chef Gordon Ramsay, star of the hit Fox reality show, “Hell’s Kitchen.”International superstar chef Gordon Ramsay scored a huge hit this past summer with...

Angela Thirkell Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as World...

Pamela Druckerman The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a...

Isabel Allende Gregory Reeves, the son of a self-styled preacher, struggles to overcome his childhood of poverty and neglect and to take control of his destiny. By the author of...

Selected and Introduced by Richard Glyn Jones To fascinate, the mere fact of a murder being unsolved is not enough. After all, hundreds of crimes are committed without even a...

Jonathan Raban First published October 12, 1999

Claire North Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death...

Carolyn Walker Cambridge English Readers: Level 6Chief Inspector Jane Honeywell is a city detective who wonders why she has moved to a sleepy country town—nothing happens in Pilton. But then...

Judith Wilson Cambridge English Readers: Level 4Ikuko goes to England to study English, promising her boyfriend Hiroshi she will return to Japan to marry him. However, in Birmingham Ikuko discovers...

Deborah Moggach Seventeenth-century Amsterdam – a city in the grip of tulip fever.Sophia’s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower.To celebrate, he...