Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him.

In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, nine-year-old Oskar Schell sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It leads him into the lives of strangers, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini, now out in paperback in a stunning new package

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. This book begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.

What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements.

In the wake of September 11, Changez, a Pakistani man in Manhattan, finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.

In a brave new post-9/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all. Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them under threat, it's clear to Lucy that life is changing.

Alan Gibbons at his most powerful and disturbing on race, riots and real life

'A blistering portrait of a New York couple going through a divorce in the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001 ... a staggeringly controlled and moving piece of prose...Ken Kalfus is a talent to watch' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

When a 91-year-old woman in the wealthy town of New Solway becomes suspicious of goings-on in her old home, Larchmont Hall, private investigator V.I. Warshawski is called in.

From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11 to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness, this collection of short stories presents the studies of human connection and disconnection.

Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, has just discovered that he has a younger brother named Magnus whom his parents have kept secret from him. Just as Eric did years ago, 17 -year-old Magnus has run away from home to escape his dysfunctional family. Determined to find him, Eric finds himself caught in a desperate race against time. Young homeless children in New York have created a ...

Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.

Travelling throughout the Middle East and Europe, the author talks to men and women in bazaars, schools and alleyways, as well as the world's leading political figures, developing and refining his perspective on the new kind of war the West finds itself fighting.