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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...

Author: Arthur Kopit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in...

Author: Emmanuel Dongala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing...

Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...

Author: Sigrid Nunez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing...

Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 309 [A] tour-de-force. --The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today."...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary...

Author: Paolo Maurensig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in...

Author: Roxana Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she...

Author: Anthony E Wolf, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Essential advice from the author of the bestselling Get Out Of My Life Today's children--from toddlers to preteens--challenge their...

Author: C E Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of the National Book Foundation's 5 Best Writers Under 35 Finalist...

Author: Susan Coll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and...

Author: Jon Pineda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep...

Author: Charles Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Charles Wright's truth - the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging - is at the heart...

Author: Lawrence Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated...

Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...

Author: David Hajdu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences...

Author: Oonya Kempadoo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel, All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters...

Author: John F Kasson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the...

Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...

Author: Tom Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this...

Author: Mona Eltahawy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security,...

Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...

Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher...

Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than...

Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...

Author: Amelia Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray's breakout novel delivers an incredibly imaginative...

Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...

Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...

Author: Sarah Pinborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 DI Cass Jones is still dealing with the fallout of uncovering a major conspiracy within his own police station when a...

Author: Homa Sabet Tavangar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In today's increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens?...

Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light, radio, X-rays and the rest. But gravitational waves...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A captivating and glamorous tale of squandered talent that defined 'The Lost Generation' of 1920s New York Anthony Patch and...

Author: Stephen Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp By...

Author: Elly Griffiths Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK. INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India Knight Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape...

Author: V.L. Valentine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 WHO WOULD MURDER THE DYING... London, 1665. Hidden within the growing pile of corpses in his churchyard, Rector Symon Patrick discovers...

Author: Jeff Immelt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The former CEO of General Electric, one of the most influential CEO's, shares the ideas and values of leadership he learned...

Author: Alyssa Rosenheck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The American South is a place steeped in history and tradition. We think of sweet tea, thick drawls, and even thicker...

Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...

Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...

Author: Dan Vyleta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where...

Author: Libby Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Two decades. Hundreds of miles. A lifetime of secrets. Could coming home mean starting again? 'A perfect, warm escape from these...

Author: Deborah Moggach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Pru is on her own. But then, so are plenty of other people. And while the loneliness can be overwhelming, surely...

Author: Craig Revel Horwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of...

Author: M. W. Craven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the prestigious CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022 Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of...

Author: Remi Adekoya Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 *The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021* 'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of...

Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Rousing, polemical and heartfelt' - Gardens Illustrated 'An invitation to take action' - The Observer One thing has become clear this...

Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...