The Retribution

The new thriller from internationally best-selling author Val McDermid pits the best crime-fighting team in the UK—detective Carol Jordan and profiler Tony Hill—against a master criminal with a very personal…

Relative Stranger

“Loudon is excellent . . . spinning a real-life mystery from meetings with people who knew her long-estranged sister during the last dozen years of Catherine Loudon’s life: an era…

Red Star Over China

A reissue of Edgar Snow’s classic account as the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936….

Recital of the Dog

“A gifted prose writer of original vision . . . In both voice and structure, Recital of the Dog owes much both to Albert Camus and James M. Cain. ….

Raw

“A fast, funny, freaky fusion of two unlikely worlds: literature and reality TV . . . Smith brings the awesomeness together like a literary peanut-butter cup.” —Elizabeth Crane, author of…

A Question of Mercy

“Beautifully considered, piercingly clear-eyed . . . Mr. Rabe, in a play that reestablishes him as one of America’s preeminent dramatists . . . has written an exquisitely controlled about…

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The Pyramids

“This comprehensive volume details everything you ever wanted to know about pyramids–and the cultural and technological world from which they arose.” –Boston Herald…

Prince of Pleasure

‘morton”has written a scholarly but highly readable bio, filled with rich analysis and insight. He says more in his limited space than many others could do with three times the…

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

“A powerhouse of vivid contrast and contradiction. . . . In a swashbuckling prologue replete with arresting sexual imagery, Enright lays bare her novel’s epic sweep. . . . Like…