Summer Reads

'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' -- David HumeDavid Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet...

The unforgettable story of an underdog rowing team that beats the odds and wins the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Brown perfectly captures the dreams and fears of the nine rowers from the University of Washington that overcame their struggles and succeeded,...

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—"the longitude problem."Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014’s Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent...

(Available after 3-20 days)A wizard's job is never done! Get fired up for the official sequel to Fairy Tail, with story and layouts by original creator Hiro Mashima himself.WHITEOUTHas FAIRY TAIL been taken down by the White Mage?! An urgent message...

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination...

From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.   The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s...

“This is … real literature, pure and honest.”—Vladimir NabokovOnce considered the "Russian Proust", Yuri Felsen tells of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Paris in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary.Following the arrival of...

An anorexic teenager escapes from a clinic and forms an unlikely friendship with a farmer. The two damaged women slowly heal as they work the land, in an achingly beautiful debut.Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING'  --  New York Times'It's no wonder that Musso is one of France's most loved, bestselling authors' -- Harlan CobenIn 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing...

Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn’s A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, adapted from a translation by Jamie Lee Searle.'In this vivid, affecting novel of...

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.Men in My Situation, Per Petterson’s evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of...

An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a BarOn a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother...

THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURTNicolas Mathieu's gripping first novel is the story of a world that has come to an end. With a girl, a gun and acres of snow.When a factory that employs most of a small town is scheduled...

An abduction in London and the discovery of a body on the west coast of Sweden lead criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells back to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, as they hunt a serial killer. Book two in the explosive,...

***NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IN FRANCE***FOR FANS OF Laura Purcell, Elizabeth Macneal, Bridget Collins, Anna Mazzola, Ambrose Parry and Laura Shepherd-RobinsonQueen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic...

"A beguiling read . . . A cold-case whodunnit [and] a Shadow of the Wind-style quest" - John Dugdale, Sunday Times"Bestselling writer Luca D'Andrea has concocted a fearsome witches' brew of myth, memory and mayhem" - Sunday Times Crime ClubA haunting...

To Remember the truth, she'll have to forget the lies...When former high-powered lawyer turned PI Selma Falck is shot and her oldest friend, a junior MP, is killed in a sniper attack, everyone - including the police - assume that Selma was the prime...

Could you put your beliefs before your family?Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved...

Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their...