SUMMARY: Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as...
Review“...engrossing memoir"" — LA Magazine “Graham’s telling of the overwrought work environment at Latham Watkins brings John Grisham’s The Associate to re...
SUMMARY: New York Magazine proclaims, "Twitter is the hot web company right now...the Next Big Thing;" the New York Times calls it "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Inte...
Amazon.com Review"What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disrae....
SUMMARY: KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels "Triangle, The Little Women, The Music" "Lesson, "and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than" "They Appear." She lives in Connectic...
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implicat...
'Absorbing! I now place Volkogonov's great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times Fol...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A daring rescue sends Dirk Pitt on an adventure that will determine the future of the planet ...When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua,...