Lee ChildAfter an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building...

Bernhard Schlink and Walter PoppAs a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private...

Ernest HemingwayThe best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his...

Carmen Bin LadinOsama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of...

Erik DurschmiedFrom the wooden horse at Troy to a dropped package of cigars at Antietam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and...

Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #1In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to...

Tim O'BrienIn 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision...

Bryce CourtnayIn 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His...

Scott SimonThe universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic...

Rosie AlisonEngland, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending...

Geraldine BrooksWinner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.From the author of the acclaimed Year of Wonders, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on...

Ellis PetersEllis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael...A Morbid Taste for BonesIn the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now,...