A fascinating conundrum, a novel of ideas that baffles, illuminates and delights. Woven into it, miraculously, is a complete history of Western philosophy that unravels and explores all the great mysteries of life, death, and the world around us. Read More...

The third volume in the 'Tales of the Otori' trilogy. 'Your lands will stretch from sea to sea,' the blind prophetess has told the young warrior Otori Takeo. 'But peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Four battles to win and one to lose. Many must die.' Read More...

When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a quiet place in which to rest she received an answer from the Hebrides. The Hills is Lonely is the enchanting story of the extremely unusual 'rest cure' which followed. Read More...

What she doesn't know could kill her. Not since Marathon Man has there been a thriller with the unrelenting force of this extraordinary novel. Days of Drums is the story of a senator's assassination and of a young female Secret Service agent in the vise of a conspiracy as the tension builds, heartbeat by heartbeat, toward a terrifying climax. Read More...

Edmund Sin and Roscoe Hamilton embark upon their Far Eastern journey up into the Tahsueh Shah region of Szechuan: the most strange and beautiful place on earth. Read More...

Centuries ago, when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of all was the Raven King. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend, and England no longer believes in practical magic. Then the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey meets a brilliant young magician, Jonathon Strange and together, they dazzle the country with their feats. But the partnership soon turns to rivalry... Read More...