Summer Reads

The disturbing tale of two Senegalese friends and soldiers in the Great War and the urge to madness and revenge that subsumes one when the other is killed, Diop’s astonishing novel is both a tribute to friendship and a passionate condemnation of armed...

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.Who goes to a dinner party next door and leaves her baby alone in the house? What kind of mother does such a thing? She feels the familiar agony set in – she is not a good mother.People are capable of almost...

Expanded from her original New Yorker essay, Adichie’s characteristically powerful and enlightening meditation on the nature of grief is a searchingly honest and eloquent slice of life-writing. A devastating essay on loss and the people...

Meet Jimmy Kudo, a high school sleuth in the body of little boy, in this deliciously enjoyable series of fiendish mysteries packed with heart, humour and head-scratching puzzles. Ghastly beheadings, bloody murders, and coldhearted child...

One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne.The other is a priestess searching for her family.Together, they will change the fate of an empire.Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the...

  "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post A New York...

(Available after 3-20 days)Conan must contend with the murder of a man who burns to death while the prime suspect has the perfect alibi; he helps a seemingly sweet and innocent girl look for her missing father; and he still has time to explore a haunted...

Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism.Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by...

(Available after 3-20 days)This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first...

One of a handful of graphic novels that elevate the form into an intensely personal artistic statement, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s astonishing visual memoir of growing up in Iran. Intertwining the intimate with the political and compelling drama...

BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE A rebel who becomes a queen The amazing third book in the bestselling Bone Season series - a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination...

(Available after 3-20 days)Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man. --The New York Times Book Review The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident...

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in...

'A lovely novel, delicately drawn, with characters that really linger in the mind . . . I got really swept up in it.' --  Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of UsYou never forget the one that got away. Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix...

An irresistible new edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone created with ultra-talented designers MinaLima, the design magicians behind the gorgeous visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. J.K. Rowling's complete...

Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning drawings and interactive artwork from MinaLima, the...

A collection of the second half of the mega-popular webcomic series of the same name, Check, Please!: Sticks and Scones is the last in Ngozi Ukazu's hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-age story about hockey, bros, and trying to find yourself...

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent...