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.

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...

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.

Acclaimed author Elizabeth Strout gives us thirteen rich, luminous narratives centred on a singular and formidable heroine, Olive Kitteridge.

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

Part personal history, part travel narrative, part philosophical reflection on the meaning of games, this book describes the author's encounters with gamers in three gaming cities: London, Seoul, and Reyjkavik. It introduces us to an emerging and doubted world of gaming lives.

Features none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. The consequence is surprising, mildly shocking and funny.

Diffident, 40-year-old teacher, Agnes Shanklin takes the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. But her arrival in Cairo coincides with an event that will change history. As Agnes observes the tumult and tensions of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and towards a personal awakening.

Lyrical historical fantasy, set in the aftermath of the Trojan Wars.

Returning to Jerusalem after a long absence, Shulamit Shepher becomes embroiled in a family feud over possession of the so called Shepher Codex, a mysterious and valuable Torah manuscript discovered in her grandparents' attic genizah, a depository for old or damaged sacred documents.

A stunning novel of celebrity and the price of fame from a Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright

A collection of stories portraying Bombay and its citizens.

A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world celebrating Brack Obama's historic US Presidential Election.

The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man, book one of the Demon trilogy, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes.

A story about the Shandell 'Blackbird' Bird's role in modern-day sports, and a portrait of the viciousness and hypocrisy that lie behind the facade of the pro-athlete good life. It's a tale of a naive black man buying into a world that can toss you aside as fast as the sound bite of your last post-game courtside interview.

The first memoir from a woman born and raised in South Darfur. An incredibly powerful first-hand account of the horrors of the genocide.

Christian-based fiction.

Written for a general audience rather than for experts, these essays invite readers to expand their appreciation of how music works.