The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. ‘Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy – no mean feat’ New Scientist
In the tradition of novels by Saul Bellow, James Joyce and Flann O’Brien. Championed by E Annie Proulx.
A brilliantly constructed thriller by a 26 year old Harvard law student exposing the dark side of suburbia and depicting an inconceivably chilling character in episodes of mounting horror. This is Stephen King meets Ira Levin; ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ with a background of artificial insemination.
A survey from the earliest times of male and female homosexuality and its culture worldwide.
A consummate masterpiece of structure and style, ‘The Sunken Road’ belongs firmly in the bestselling tradition of Carol Shields’s ‘The Stone Diaries’.
How scientific and technological advances solve acute problems but offer chronic problems in their stead. Tenner’s fascinating book – in the same vein as Charles Handy’s The Age of Unreason – pinpoints the problems and offers a new paradigm for controlling them
The international No.1 bestseller and the most astonishing publishing success story since The Bridges of Madison County.
A dazzling, witty and highly original tribute to Jackie Onassis, one of the twentieth-century’s most alluring and enigmatic cultural icons.
‘Engines of Creation is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically sound.’ Marvin Minsky, Donner Professor of Science, MIT
We’ve had ‘Mommy Dearest’ about Joan Crawford; now Delia Ephron brings us Daddy Dearest in her witty, bittersweet first novel about love, death and the telephone, based on the Ephron sisters’ experiences dealing with the death of their alcoholic father.
A brilliantly observed, hilarious and poignant social satire. Wilcox’s novels (there are six and characters overlap) have the narrative litheness of Armistead Maupin and the piercing tragi-comic insights of Edith Wharton.
A brilliantly observed, hilarious and poignant social satire. Wilcox’s Tula Springs novels (there are six and characters overlap) have the narrative litheness of an Armistead Maupin and the piercing tragi-comic insights of Edith Wharton.
