Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone...One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The...

Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone...One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The...

In a world of magic, Asta, a boy with anti-magic powers, will do whatever it takes to become the Wizard King!Asta is a young boy who dreams of becoming the greatest mage in the kingdom. Only one problem—he can't use any magic! Luckily for Asta, he...

“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific AmericanThe Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our...

From the bestselling author of Origins, Being Human is an absorbing investigation into the various ways our biology has shaped our societies, economies, relationships and progress throughout history. Being Human is history made flesh...

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome   Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels...

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times“Succeeds spectacularly...

This remorseless cat-and-mouse thriller revolving around a sadistic killer freshly released from jail and the terrified family he pursues in order to get his hands on a fortune is a classic slice of Southern Gothic crime. Two young children hold the...

A mutilated cadaver spells trouble for the legendarily laconic detective in one of Simenon's finest outings for Inspector Maigret. A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance. It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then...

The king of the wry, realistic espionage thriller turns his attention to an alternate history of the Second World War in this enthralling account of what British life could have been like under Nazi rule. 'The new crime and espionage series from...

Breathtakingly suspenseful and superbly constructed, Ambler's wartime chase yarn finds an English engineer desperately fleeing unknown assailants across Europe. 1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody...

Le Carre's masterful debut novel introduces the celebrated spook George Smiley in a murky story of betrayal, intrigue and murder. An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man. Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign...

The complete screenplay of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer centers on the life of the "father of the atomic bomb." Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the...

Time has passed since The Demon Lord and The Hero have married and in the preceding years, both human and demon realms have been united. Mixing of demonic races and humans is not uncommon, but is encouraged to bring about a new age of prosperity and...

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a...

A rollercoaster of a crime novel, Himes' effervescent caper sees two detectives engage in a fast-paced attempt to retrieve the money stolen from the good people of Harlem by a ruthless conman. A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of...

An unparalleled hardboiled noir novel, In a Lonely Place paints a vivid picture of 1940s Los Angeles gripped by the fear of a serial killer as a former fighter pilot makes a shocking discovery whilst following the police investigation. Los...

The author of The Daughter of Time delivers an unputdownable mystery that keeps the reader guessing till the final page, as abductee and abductor both claim they are the ones telling truth. Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman...

'"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"'In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he...

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