Wilbur Smith

Hungry as the Sea is an enthralling story of revenge, adventure and romance from bestselling author Wilbur Smith. 'Nick went head down, finning desperately ...

Tony Judt

Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political...

Carl Zimmer

We take it for granted that the brain is the seat of our minds, the part of the body that is most ourselves. 500 years ago, Europeans, if they thought about the...

Anita Desai

While their parents went to parties at Delhi's Rosamaria Club, the children of the Das family brought themselves up, reading Byron, listening to the gramoph...

Ha Jin

In his luminous new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individu...

Donna Leon

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near t...