A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the US. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power.

Twenty years ago Katherine Neville's groundbreaking thriller THE EIGHT was a global bestseller -- a thriller in the style of THE DA VINCI CODE way before Dan Brown ever got there...

Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks of men and women who confessed and were spared execution. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the brutal world in which they live.

Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling. As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up racing camels, attending weddings and playing games. But in 2003, helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur's villages and shattered that way of life for ever.

A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon

'I'll come back for you later. I promise.'

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. This children's novel encompasses the themes of death and nationhood.

Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.

Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family, watching protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. When the three of them suddenly move to Rome it seems at first to be a great adventure. But Lawrence's excitement at his new surroundings gives way to something far harder to endure.

North Korea defiantly launches a nuclear-tipped missile over Japan, exploding it in a mushroom-cloud firestorm offshore. A nuclear Iran, through its allies in Lebanon, is mercilessly lobbing missiles into Israel. A powerful China launches a killer satellite and destroys half of America's spy satellites. Will one man's love for a woman save the world, or destroy it? A fast read with an ending you .

A novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt in which in the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in.

In 1914, an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups - Turkish, German, English and American - are vying for control over the land and its economic prizes.

In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard, so he flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the centre of Basque culture and tradition. In the midst of this isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life - he finds someone to live for.

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.

Globalization makes it difficult to know where the things you buy come from. This book tells how the author who wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, traveled from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back. It tells how along the way, he met the people who made his favorite clothes and learned about them.

A thrilling historical epic in the bestselling tradition of Fingersmith and The Shadow of the Wind - one orphan's epic search for what's left of his family.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210. Twenty two days later, he was dead. This work documents Litvinenko's life and death, the police investigation, and the Russian emigre set in London.

The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead. Without evidence the authorities claim they are runaways. The town policeman, Morrison knows otherwise.

A pacy international suspense thriller with a historical twist, from New York Times bestselling author