The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
by Victor Cha

* Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world’s most controversial and isolated country. Vi...

The Passage of Power
by Robert A Caro

* The fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson spans the years 1958 to 1964, arguably the most crucial year...

Billie Templar's War
by Ellie Irving

Billie Templar desperately wants her dad to come home. He's a soldier and has been away for seven weeks, fighting for 'Queen and country' - but how ca...

The Spook's Blood: Book 10
by Joseph Delaney

Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his t...

The Spook's Blood: Book 10
by Joseph Delaney

For Tom Ward, the Spook's apprentice, the pressure is now on. Having bound the Fiend's spirit temporarily he now has to come up with a permanent solut...

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
by Philip Ball

There was a time when curiosity was condemned. To be curious was to delve into matters that didn't concern you - after all, the original sin stemmed f...

Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad - the Ten-Year Search for Osama bin Laden
by Peter Bergen

Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, as w...

Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad - the Ten-Year Search for Osama bin Laden
by Peter Bergen

Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, as w...

Dying to Know You
by Aidan Chambers

From the master storyteller, Aidan Chambers, comes this new thought-provoking novel for teenagers.Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the...

The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning
by Ed Vulliamy

The year 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the onset of the worst carnage to blightEurope since the reign of the Third Reich - the Bosnian War. ...