For six days, Los Angeles is a city ablaze. For six days, seventeen people are caught in the chaos. For six days, Los Angeles shows the world what happens when laws are no longer enforceable. In April
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where
My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present t
THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three young, gifted anthrop
The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply movin
Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope? In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job i
In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sittin
After sitting in the car on the hill for about ten minutes, Montalbano realized this was a big mistake. Because he didn't think at all about the investigation, the burglars, or Mr. Z. He thought about
Howard York - self-made man and founder of London's extraordinary Hotel Alpha - is one of those people who makes you feel that anything is possible. He is idolized by his blind adopted son, Chas, and
Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigata, the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofo, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his home-grown medicines
1987. Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective is hired by a woman to follow her husband Jaan 'G' Hennan. A few days later, his client is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. Ma
Caeli-Amur: an ancient city harbouring hidden mysteries, ruled by three warring Houses. Once, the gods used magic - or thaumaturgy - to create reality. Now, under the oppression of the controllin
The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After his return from the battlefields in France,
rchaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all th
Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Every night you close your eyes, become oblivious to your surroundings and waste hours flying, being chased or watching all your teeth fall out – and
Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resist
The sensational No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller|There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in th
One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place t
入圍2014美國國家圖書獎 (2014 National Book Awards Finalist)Longlisted for 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Glorious, unexpected, superbly written; just try putting it down'
Three young anthropologists in the 1930s are caught in a passionate love triangle . . .WINNER OF THE 2014 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION'It's that moment about two months in, when you think you've finally g
'Could The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form' Daily ExpressTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERThe Wilderness Years are
Welcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships?An ironic, tragic insig
The sensational No. 1 Sunday Times BestsellerThere is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would
Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, J
First published in 2002, The Lovely Bones became an instant worldwide bestseller. There are now over ten million copies in print. A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Peter Jackson, was release
The new Sunday Times top-ten bestseller from the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats.What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an u
Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as the S
When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir
#1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Fra
Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous seas in the world.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2004, this is
A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' - "Sunday Times". Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particular
Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus GirlHigh on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, moth
The multi-million copy international bestseller that has brought Confucius to a new, contemporary readershipIn the autumn of 2006, Yu Dan, a professor of media studies at Beijing Normal University, ga
