Mozart in the Jungle

“Her description of life in the famous Allendale building…is delightful, as are her portraits of fellow musicians and her stories of life in the pit.” –Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles…

Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck

‘must-reading for anyone who wants or who needs to understand what the film business is really all about.” –Martin A. Grove, The Hollywood Reporter…

Masters of the Word

From the author of A Splendid Exchange comes a remarkable history of media—from the creation of the alphabet through the invention of the Internet—and how it has shaped human society…

Lenin’s Kisses

A fiercely satirical story of greed and corruption from “one of China’s most successful fiction writers” (The New York Times)….

The Fourth Angel

Forensics

Internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom.

Black Snow

“Prose that tautly evokes the grim mood and setting . . . a writer to watch.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Budapest 1900

“John Lukacs is in many ways an old-fashioned chronicler, an “impressionistic historian” as he himself says at one point, evoking with considerable artistry the vibrant colors, pungent smells and melancholy…

At Briarwood School for Girls

From the award-winning writer of Eveningland and The Typist, Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls is an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia…

Cities

Declared “the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of the city” (The Times, London), this is a magisterial exploration of these defining artifacts of civilization….