Summer Reads

Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance.Less well-known is the man behind the brand.For nearly seventy years, Enzo Ferrari dominated a motor-sports empire that defined the world of high-performance cars. Next to the Pope,...

Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time. Because Beckett has a reputation for being difficult, even...

The masterly fairy tale epic reaches its dramatic conclusion, where scores are settled and the identity of the One True King revealed. Concluding the series with all the magic, wit, excitement and intelligence of the volumes that went before, One True...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESPersepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESCibola Burn is the fourth book in the New York Timesbestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life...

A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESTiamat's Wrath is the eighth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire...

Bringing together the stunning world building, romance and fairy tale enchantment you’d expect from the bestselling author of Heartless, this reworking of the Rumpelstiltskin fable curses a miller’s daughter with the gift of a golden tongue and plunges...

What advice would you give the younger you...and would you listen? As far as time machines go, a What advice would you give the younger you...and would you listen? As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Georgie McCool...

“A hallucinatory marriage of Pride and Prejudice and A Game of Thrones.”—Matthew Skelton, author of the Endymion Spring books In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos’s international best-selling Mirror Visitor saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling...

A blisteringly beautiful collection of short fiction from the author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life, Filthy Animals brings together quietly devastating stories of young people caught up in violence and desire, while longing for intimacy...

The celebrated debut novel from the author ofNever Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day explores the way unexpected events sometimes force our entire past to be rewritten. By turns elegiac, tender, ironic and macabre, A Pale View of...

Camus’s masterpiece on the effects of isolation, claustrophobia and moral recklessness in an Algerian village ravaged by the plague weaves an extraordinary tapestry of life governed by fear. Humane, haunting and timeless, The Plague is a chilling,...

A crumbling house, a woman alone and an ancient diary set the scene for this supernatural debut. Echoing the gothic tone of Susan Hill, this is a thumb-pricking, heart-stopping delight. Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club Inspired by the work of...

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also...

An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.“Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt Tudor’s best...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal...

From the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks comes an exciting adventure series with a unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural. Meet your new action-adventure addiction!Will West is playing a...

Explore the world's best spices, be inspired to make your own new spice blends, and take your cooking to new heights.Break new ground with this spice book like no other, from food scientist and bestselling author Dr. Stuart Farrimond. Taking the periodic...

In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western...