SUMMARY: Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allo...
From Publishers WeeklyA spoiled brat finds her backbone when fate kicks her to the curb in tabloid staple Richie's decent follow-up to The Truth About Diamonds. Charlotte Williams ...
Amazon.com ReviewWorld War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 "an...
SUMMARY: In Jilly Cooper'S Third Rutshire Chronicle We Meet Ricky France-Lynch, Who Is Moody, Macho, And Magnificent. He Had A Large Crumbling Estate, A Nine-Goal Polo Handicap, An...
One of the best brain doctors of his time, Nathi lost his own brain five centuries ago when he became a posthuman. He is called upon to save a comatose girl. The damage is extensiv...
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscriptthrough centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert,...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charle...
SUMMARY: What bones are buried in the shadows of the past? Asked to join in a dig at the site of the eighteenth–century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student ...
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198...
SUMMARY: The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you w...