All Books

A picnic in the Chilterns is interrupted when a hot-air balloon accident brings two strangers together. One of them — Joe Rose, a science journalist — becomes the obsessive focus of the other's deranged love. McEwan's clinical thriller dissects the boundary between reason and madness.

Bruce Gold, a Jewish English professor in New York, is offered a vague but enticing position in Washington and navigates the absurdist bureaucracy of politics while colliding with his chaotic family and a government that speaks entirely in meaningless language.

The origin story of Hannibal Lecter: from his aristocratic Lithuanian childhood through the traumatic events of the Second World War that broke something fundamental, to the first murders in post-war Europe and Japan. A prequel that traces the specific losses and grievances that created the most celebrated fictional cannibal.

George Brush is a travelling textbook salesman in Depression-era America who is also a fundamentalist Christian — sincere, principled, and a constant source of comic chaos wherever he goes.

American twins inherit a flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London from an aunt they never met — and find themselves entangled with a ghost, the aunt's former lover, and a mystery about the family's past.

J. Sutter is a junk journalist attending a press junket in Talcott, West Virginia, where the US Postal Service is issuing a John Henry commemorative stamp. Whitehead weaves Sutter's contemporary story with the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man who raced a machine and won — and then died — and various other perspectives across American history.

A man searches for his estranged daughter Lea, a violinist who has disappeared, travelling across Europe following the traces she has left — a meditation on parenthood, music, and the distances we create between those we love.

A factory director in rural Austria uses his wife Gerti as a sexual object, while Gerti seeks an escape through a brief affair with a student. Jelinek's most controversial novel uses pornographic imagery and flat, repetitive prose to expose the mechanics of male power over female bodies—a feminist provocation that repelled and fascinated in equal measure.

Mark Adams travels the world in search of the lost city of Atlantis — interviewing scholars, crackpots, archaeologists, and believers — in a witty and surprisingly serious investigation of one of history's most persistent myths.

Andrew Kilpatrick's sprawling, encyclopedic biography of Warren Buffett chronicles the investor's life from childhood in Omaha through the building of Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable companies. Updated across multiple editions, it serves as the most comprehensive single-volume reference on Buffett's personal and professional history.

Lisa, sixteen, arrives in London from the country with her mother and younger sister, and tries to make sense of the city, boys, and her own desires. Esther Freud's second novel — a coming-of-age story set in Hackney.

The fifth and final Ripley novel. An American couple, David and Janice Pritchard, move to the village near Ripley's Belle Ombre and begin investigating the disappearance of Dickie Greenleaf — whose killing, thirty years earlier, is the foundational crime of the entire series. Ripley must manage this threat with the same composure he has brought to every crisis, in a novel that is both a thriller and a late meditation on how long a constructed life can hold.

On the night the seventh son of the seventh son is born to the Heap family, the baby is presumed dead — but Septimus Heap's story is only beginning, as a decade later a young girl with a mysterious past arrives to turn the magical world upside down.

Ten years after the events of Wicked, Liir — possibly Elphaba's son — stumbles out of the wilderness near death and must piece together what happened to him and what he is meant to do. The Wicked Years sequence continues as Oz descends further into political darkness.

A MIT graduate student accidentally builds a time machine that can only travel forward — each jump taking him exponentially further into the future — and must find a way back or keep jumping into an ever more distant Earth.

Sonchai encounters a man of extraordinary physical capability — an American military asset, a product of a black-ops enhancement programme — whose presence in Bangkok is connected to CIA operations that go back to the Vietnam War and forward into a disturbing future of human augmentation. The sixth Sonchai novel, the darkest and most politically charged.

In 2005, a young archaeologist discovers two skeletons and an ancient ring near Carcassonne; in 1209, a young woman becomes the guardian of three books containing the secret of the Holy Grail during the brutal Cathar Crusade — two women separated by eight centuries but bound by the same ancient mystery.

Stoker's final novel pits a young Englishman against an ancient, monstrous entity lurking beneath the English countryside — part gothic horror, part folk legend, part fever dream. Lady Arabella March conceals a terrifying secret in her estate, and only Adam Salton can confront the primordial evil coiled beneath Mercy Farm.

Robert Langdon is called to Washington D.C. under false pretenses and plunged into a frantic one-night race through the Capitol's corridors of power. Freemason symbolism, Ancient Mysteries, and a villain whose identity reshapes the entire narrative — Brown's most American thriller.

A Cambridge group therapist becomes obsessed with a charismatic Greek Tragedy professor she suspects of murder, convinced he is connected to the ritualistic killings of young women who belong to his secret society — The Maidens.

The Mandible family, expecting to inherit a great fortune, watches the American economy collapse in 2029 under sovereign debt crisis and currency destruction — a multigenerational economic dystopia that follows one family's survival over nearly two decades.

Set in fourteenth-century Italy, Valperga follows the rise of the condottiere Castruccio Castracani — a real historical figure — from boyhood idealism to tyrannical power, through the eyes of Euthanasia, the remarkable Countess of Valperga, who loves him and watches him be destroyed by ambition.

The third Ender novel expands to three worlds simultaneously: Lusitania, where Ender and Valentine race to prevent a deadly descolada virus from spreading; Path, a Chinese-influenced planet whose most gifted citizens are afflicted with obsessive-compulsive rituals they believe are divine; and a Starways Congress determined to eliminate the threat by destroying an entire planet.

Jeffrey Lockhart is summoned to a remote facility in central Asia where the ultra-wealthy can cryonically preserve their bodies until medicine can cure what ails them. His father has paid for Jeffrey's stepmother to be preserved as she dies of multiple sclerosis. The novel meditates on death, technology, and the human refusal to accept mortality.