Ernesto Che Guevara

Che Guevara’s riotous diaries charting his motorcycle odyssey from Argentina through Chile and Peru ending finally in Venezuela. In January 1952, two y...

Isabel Allende

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’.Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California ...

Joanna Blythman

An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture. Did you kn...

Sebastian Juner

A compelling portrait of 1960s America that takes as its starting point the brutal events of 11 March 1963, the day on which the lives of three complete strange...

Jill Kargman

"A hilarious and deliciously scathing send-up of motherhood as practiced in the upper echelons of Manhattan society, from the coauthor of The Right Address and ...

Norman F Cantor

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode ...

Louise Brown

The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quart...

Eric Newby

A sparkling anthology of several centuries worth of the world’s best travel writing, assembled by the legendary Eric Newby, the author of ‘A Short W...

Henri Charriere

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-inf...

Maj Sjowall Per Wahloo

The shocking ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a sm...

Anonymous

Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel Harcourt and her maid as the third dimension in their relationship. The "problem" is that Muriel...

Charles Devereux

Captain Devereux is posted to India, far away from his beautiful young wife and child, and at first is devastated at the parting. But when he comes across Lizzi...