2016-03-19 18:53
By Joseph O'ConnorThe year is 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
By Robin McKie Written into our facial features is a story going back generations. It is the story of who we are and where we are from - the history of Britain through war and conquest, migr… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
More award-winning journalism, fresh from America's Finest News Source[trademark] Every week, three million readers turn to the world's most popular humour publication for a much-needed dose… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
By Dava SobelAfter the huge national and international success of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreak… Read More
2007-02-27 20:02
By John Banville A brilliant, engaging and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a chara… Read More
2007-02-27 20:01
By Michael Scheuer Cyber and television jihad are parts of the war that the former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer believes bin Laden is winning. Scheuer, whose Cassandra-isms as head of the CIA… Read More
2007-02-27 20:00
by Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE with the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, this sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationali… Read More
2007-02-27 19:59
By Delvin DresserRalph Mosco often felt different from the other children his age. The son of a preacher, Ralph lived his life a little differently than many of the other teenagers his age w… Read More
2007-02-27 19:58
By Alex Games(Buy this book and any other 5 of your choice, for just $1)'Balderdash and Piffle' looks into words and phrases, their origins and usage and how they have developed over time. T… Read More
2007-02-27 19:57
By Michael Berg The real secret of a happy and fulfilled life, revealed by renownedKabbalist Michael Berg, author of the acclaimed and bestselling book, TheWay. Containing a simple truth, si… Read More
2007-02-27 19:56
By Michael Wood In 1936 Freud wrote a letter to Romain Rolland, offering him a speculation about a particular memory as a 70th birthday gift. The memory concerned a trip Freud took to Athens… Read More
2007-02-27 19:54
Ian Rankin July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at full stretch. Detective Inspector John Rebus, however… Read More
2007-02-27 19:53
Geling Yan This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his discovery that simply by posing as a journalist he… Read More
2007-02-27 19:53
By Pervez MusharrafIf there is a single consistent theme in Pervez Musharraf’s memoir, it is the familiar military dogma that Pakistan has fared better under its generals than under it… Read More
2007-02-27 19:52
By Hugh BroganIn 1927 Paul Valéry wrote that Europe dreams of being ruled by an American Commission, and for many Europeans America is still seen as having an enviable freedom from th… Read More
2007-02-27 19:51
By Tobias JonesThe original Utopia, Sir Thomas More’s, was a refuge from poverty. Modern readers find its regulations authoritarian. But the starving, homeless peasants More had in min… Read More
2007-02-27 19:48
By James GainesIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdat… Read More
2007-02-27 19:48
By Evan Thomas In 1943, American sailors and soldiers entering the harbor at Tulagi, the front-line U.S. Navy base in the South Pacific, passed a billboard telling them to Kill Japs… Read More
2007-02-27 19:46
By Colin Thubron There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most… Read More
2007-02-27 19:45
Gianluca Vialli Gabriele Marcotti Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England and Italy. It is played, watched, written about and talked to death by millions virtually ev… Read More
2007-02-27 19:43
G. W. Dahlquist A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband. But when… Read More
2007-02-27 19:42
By Charles KhanIt is hard to let go of Pythagoras. He has meant so much to so many for so long. I can with confidence say to readers of this essay: most of what you believe, or think you kno… Read More
2007-02-27 19:41
By Susan Foister <!-- BeginContentMarker --><!--BeginUnderlineMarker -->Hans Holbein (1497-1543) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century. His prolific… Read More
2007-01-09 20:52
Dianne Setterfield Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to… Read More
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