Curtis Sittenfeld   On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to...

Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at WorkMarie G McIntyre, PhDOffice politics are an unavoidable fact of life in every workplace....

Suketu MehtaA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy...

Author: Jonathan CoeThe country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help...

Fiona Barton   When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it’s impossible to ignore.For one...

Brad MeltzerLanding a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultra-fast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified secret...

Nelson DeMilleBased on true events, but unlike anything you've ever heard before, number-one New York Times best-selling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.At...

Michel HouellebecqIn a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession...

Ben EltonThe war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From...

Caron HaasA few quirky questions about politics are: Which first lady fainted at her husband's inaugural ball? When and where did the term smoke-filled room originate?

The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights (Law, Meaning, and Violence)Jonathan Goldberg-HillerOffers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider...

Melanie Phillips   When London was hit by suicide bombers in July 2005, the dirty little secret was finally out. Great Britain had been the European hub of Islamist extremism...