All Books

Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon in London, experiences a single extraordinary Saturday in February 2003 — the day of the anti-Iraq-War march — that escalates into a confrontation with violence.

Fatema Mernissi explores the different versions of Scheherazade that Western and Eastern cultures have created — arguing that the Western harem fantasy reveals more about Western fears than about Eastern reality.

Geralt of Rivia arrives in the port city of Kerack only to have his prized swords stolen, dragging the monster-hunter into a tangle of court intrigue, sorcery, and danger in this standalone adventure set within the world of the Witcher saga.

The second South American novel — a professor of philosophy in a Colombian city writes letters to the newspaper denouncing the drug cartels, and falls in love, as the coca lords begin to notice him.

An orphaned soldier discovers she harbors a rare power that could end a centuries-long darkness threatening her country — and draws the attention of a mysterious and dangerous commander.

The second All Souls novel — Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont timewalk to Elizabethan London, where Diana must learn witchcraft and retrieve the enchanted manuscript that holds the secrets of all creatures.

The killer Lucas Davenport thought he had stopped has resurfaced in New York City, leaving a trail of bodies in the urban shadows. Davenport travels east to help hunt him down — and is drawn into a second, separate investigation into a cabal of rogue cops who have decided to mete out their own brand of justice.

Kundera's first novel written directly in French meditates on slowness as a value — the pleasure that is inseparable from unhurry — and speed as the form modern forgetting takes. Two stories interweave: an eighteenth-century erotic tale of a planned seduction and a contemporary entomologist's conference at the same chateau.

Three stories — the title story originally published in The New Yorker — examining the space between men and women: what they want from each other, what they withhold, and what the distance costs.

Claire, a young Birthmother in Jonas's Community from The Giver, escapes after her son is taken as a Receiver, and spends years pursuing him across a vast geography in the fourth and final book of the Giver Quartet.

A new music arrives on the Disc — Music With Rocks In — and it will not let its players stop. Meanwhile Death, grief-stricken and absent, leaves his teenage granddaughter Susan to take up the scythe. A rock-and-roll fable about mortality, memory, and the things that outlive us.

An eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a sourcerer — a source of raw magic — and his arrival threatens to drag Discworld back to the Mage Wars. Only the cowardly Rincewind, the Luggage, and a barbarian hairdresser stand between the Disc and apocalypse.

A team of scientists is assembled under the Pacific Ocean to investigate a mysterious spacecraft found on the ocean floor — a spacecraft that pre-dates any known human technology. Inside they find a perfect gold sphere. And then the sphere begins to respond to them, and the real terror begins.

Brian Jackson, the first in his family to go to university, arrives at Bristol in 1985 determined to join the University Challenge quiz team and fall in love with the right girl. A funny and tender novel about class anxiety, intellectual aspiration, and the specific humiliations of being young.

Deviant King's unanswered questions start to resolve — but Aiden King's answers raise darker ones. The Elites' grip on Elites Academy tightens, and Ellie begins to understand that the world she was placed in has rules she was never told about.

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard and private detective, investigates a pair of murders that required enormous magical power — and discovers something far darker than a simple killer.

A pre-dawn pharmacy robbery turns deadly, and the only witness who can identify the killers is Lucas Davenport's wife, Weather. As the robbers move to silence her before she can testify, Davenport finds himself in the most personal fight of his career — protecting the woman he loves from men with everything to lose.

When a bank robber is gunned down in a police operation, her ruthless husband swears revenge — not just on the cops who killed her, but on their families. As the killings begin, Lucas Davenport realizes the vendetta is being aided from inside the system, and that everyone he loves may be a target.

John Steinbeck's warm, comic sequel to Cannery Row. The bums, dreamers, and good-hearted misfits of Monterey return after the war, and the whole community schemes to find love for Doc, the lonely marine biologist at the heart of their ramshackle world.

In 1997, still a major in the army's military police, Jack Reacher is sent undercover to a small Mississippi town to investigate a brutal murder near a secretive army base. What he uncovers — a cover-up that reaches high up the chain of command — will end his military career and set him on the road for good.

The six Alexandrians have been initiated into the Alexandrian Society — the secret organisation that controls the world's most powerful knowledge. Now they must each prove their worth to the Caretakers, competing and conspiring among themselves while an external threat to the Society itself emerges. The second book in Olivie Blake's Atlas series.

A young woman from rural Iceland comes to Reykjavik to work as a maid and learn to play the harmonium. She discovers that Iceland is selling its sovereignty to NATO—her employer is among the politicians profiting from the deal. Laxness's most politically direct novel, written in 1948 as a protest against Iceland's military agreements.

William March's chilling 1954 classic of psychological horror. Christine Penmark slowly realizes that her perfect, charming eight-year-old daughter Rhoda may be a remorseless killer — and that the evil may be inherited. A landmark exploration of the 'born bad' child that shaped a genre.

Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier were high school sweethearts in Oriental, North Carolina — until their different worlds tore them apart. Twenty-five years later they return to town for the funeral of an old friend, and the feelings they buried surface with a force that neither of them expected. A reunion romance that asks whether second chances are ever truly possible.