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Quincy Miller has spent twenty-two years on death row for the murder of a small-town Florida lawyer, a crime he insists he did not commit. When a handwritten letter reaches a small innocence organisation, its director takes on the case — knowing that the real killer is still out there and still dangerous.

Herodotus's account of the Greco-Persian Wars — from Croesus of Lydia through the Persian invasions of Greece, culminating in Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea. Along the way, extensive digressions on Egypt, Scythia, Babylon, and the customs of peoples across the known world.

The second Merlin novel covers Arthur's childhood in hiding, his education, and his discovery of Excalibur — following Merlin as he watches over the boy who will become High King from a careful, loving distance. Less structurally ambitious than The Crystal Cave but emotionally rich.

Lily Bart, beautiful, brilliant, and financially precarious, navigates New York society's marriage market and slowly loses ground in a game she was not born to win.

Dick Young, staying at his friend's house in Cornwall, takes an experimental drug that sends him back to fourteenth-century Cornwall — where he becomes obsessed with the lives of a long-dead woman and her circle.

Nine financial rules so simple they fit on an index card — save 10–20% of your income, pay off credit cards, invest in low-cost index funds, and ignore financial TV.

Paul Auster's first major work in two parts: A Portrait of an Invisible Man, written after his father's sudden death, an attempt to understand a man he never truly knew; and The Book of Memory, an autobiographical meditation on solitude, fatherhood, memory, and the act of writing.

Ludvik Jahn writes a postcard joking about the Party to impress a girl; the Party expels him, sends him to a labour battalion, and destroys his life — for a joke. Kundera's first novel is his most political: a study of totalitarianism's inability to tolerate irony, and of revenge as a futile response to power.

A false Aslan, an ape called Shift, and the Calormenes threaten Narnia in its final days. The seventh and final Narnia chronicle is Lewis's Revelation — an apocalyptic ending to a children's fantasy that is also a theological argument about the nature of reality.

Two love stories set forty years apart — Jennifer Stirling in 1960s London, trapped in a loveless marriage, and journalist Ellie Haworth in the present day — are connected by a cache of passionate letters discovered in a newspaper archive.

On an island that is the last refuge of humanity after an apocalyptic fog killed the rest of the world, someone has murdered the scientist maintaining the barrier that keeps the fog at bay. If the murderer isn't found in 107 hours, the barrier falls and everyone dies. Turton's most structurally inventive mystery: a closed-room that is an entire civilisation.

A radical reimagining of the life of Christ — depicting Jesus as a man torn between the flesh and the spirit, tempted on the cross by a vision of the ordinary human life he might have lived.

A research-based portrait of how America's wealthy actually think and behave — the habits, values, and choices that lead to financial success, based on surveys of over 1,000 millionaires.

Jim Nashe, a former firefighter driving aimlessly through America with his inheritance, picks up a young gambler named Pozzi — and after losing everything in a card game against two eccentric millionaires, they find themselves building a medieval wall in a Pennsylvania field to pay off their debt.

When Emily Inglethorp is found dead at Styles Court, her stepson calls in his Belgian refugee friend Hercule Poirot to investigate. Christie's debut novel introduces one of fiction's most beloved detectives and establishes the country-house mystery template.

The sixth and final Earthsea novel revisits the question that has haunted the series since The Farthest Shore — the nature of death and the afterlife in the world of the Archipelago. A sorcerer haunted by the dead comes to Roke, and the answer found will transform Earthsea's understanding of what comes after.

Gerald Durrell's first book, an account of his animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons in 1947-48. The book that launched his career and established his voice as one of the finest natural history writers in English.

Wallace's unfinished posthumous novel follows IRS agents in a Midwest tax processing centre, examining boredom, attention, and the ethical weight of choosing to care about something the world deems worthless.

A psychologist argues that the explosion of choice in modern life, while seemingly liberating, actually produces anxiety, paralysis, and dissatisfaction.

Journalist Jon Ronson tumbles down a rabbit hole into the world of psychopaths — meeting diagnosed psychopaths, the psychiatrists who identify them, the CEOs who may be among their number, and the critics who question whether the entire diagnostic enterprise makes sense. The result is a darkly funny, genuinely unsettling investigation into madness, power, and the humans who get to decide who is sane.

Carter and Sadie Kane discover they are descended from the most powerful magicians in ancient Egypt. When their father accidentally unleashes the chaos god Set, the siblings must master Egyptian magic fast enough to prevent Set from destroying the world — and find out why their family has been lying to them.

Arthur Dent and his improbable companions dine at Milliways — the restaurant at the literal end of the universe — while continuing to flee Vogons, encounter the man who rules the universe, and discover the deeply unsatisfying truth about the planet Earth.

In a landmark tobacco liability trial in Mississippi, a mysterious juror named Nicholas Easter appears to be manipulating the outcome from inside the jury box — while his accomplice outside works both sides of the case for an enormous payout.

Nicholas Carr's Pulitzer Prize finalist argues that the internet is reshaping human cognition — training brains for distraction, skimming, and rapid switching at the expense of deep reading and sustained thought.