Ernesto Che Guevara

His principal interest was in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revolution, and where he h...

Haruki Murakami

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in whi...

Umberto Eco

A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international pr...

J M Coetzee

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a...

Graham Greene

The gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of Greene’s finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the ...

Po Bronson

We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on o...

Tom Wolfe

In this, his first book and one of the landmarks of the New Journalism, Tom Wolfe managed to look at the American scene of the early 1960s afresh and to zero in...

Richard Bernstein

In 629, the revered Buddhist monk Hsuan Tsang set out across Asia in search of the Ultimate Truth, and to settle what he called “the perplexities of my mi...

George Stevens

The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great...

Bernard E. Trainor , Michael R. Gordon

Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq...

Patrick Suskind

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Susskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's...

Toni Morrison

"""In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mi...