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The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
SUMMARY: As the citizens of Venice compete for advantageous marriages, wealth, and status, a moneylender is intent on deadly revenge. Mistrust and resentment thrive in Shakespearer... -
The Memory Chalet - Tony Judt
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from... -
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
SUMMARY: Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's... -
The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of c... -
The Man Who Made Husbands Jealo - Jilly Cooper
SUMMARY: Lysander Hawkley Combined Breathtaking Good Looks With The Kindest Of Hearts. He Couldn'T Pass A Stray Dog, An Ill-Treated Horse, Or A Neglected Wife Without Rushing To Th... -
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic - Mike Ashley
The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrori... -
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, August 2009: Mixing the magic of beloved children's fantasy classics (from Magicians reimagines modern-day fantasy for ... -
The Lonely Dead - Michael Marshall
EDITORIAL REVIEW: An electrifying thriller from the author of the international bestseller THE STRAW MEN. A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington Stat... -
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Waters (_The Night Watch_) reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale whose ghosts are a... -
The Litigators - John Grisham
ReviewPRAISE FOR *THE CONFESSION *“Brilliant . . . Superb . . . the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled a...