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She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner


Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.

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Offers a revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, this title uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding.

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He was not alone, but part of a group of some 1,670 Jewish men, women and children from Hungary, who had been rescued from the Nazis as a result of a deal made by a man called Rezso Kasztner - himself a Hungarian Jew - with Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF

Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.

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The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.

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It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it was made and the people who made it, written by the man who as the recording producer was in charge of the whole project.

Conducted by the great Georg Solti, Deccas recording has been voted the best recording ever made.

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THE BOOK- In Ripley Bogle a tramp tells a gripping and alarming story. As the scene shifts from the streets of London, to Oxford and Belfast, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell what is true and what is fiction.

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Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, and her legacy as it unfolds tragically in the lives of her son and grandchildren.

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The first part of Orwell's account, Gollancz wrote in Left News in April 1937, has done, perhaps in a greater degree than any previous book, what the [Left Book] Club is meant to do it has provoked thought and discussion of the keenest kind.

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From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. Rocket Dreams is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and mutated into new fascination with space.

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'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever.

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Through their eyes we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland of today.

Both are marvellous talkers, so combined with Roddy Doyle's legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, Rory & Ita makes for a book of tremendous warmth and humanity.

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Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking affairs and lost loves.

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.

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THE BOOK: One of Thomas Mann's most delightful stories, Royal Highness is richly resonant with may of his themes and symbols. His careful depiction of a decaying, stratified society rejuvenated by modern forces illustrates in fable what he regarded as a universal truth - that ripeness and death are a necessary condition of rebirth.

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This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.

The Black Country town of Cradle Cross - home to buttonmakers, canal folk, and more than its share of widows - is bounded by canals, grief and superstition.

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Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity.

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Set in contemporary Nairobi, this is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves.

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Winter in South Africa - a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush.

Martin Mynhardt, a wealthy Afrikaner, plans a weekend at his old family farm.

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In 1928 two extraordinary Englishmen competed in an unprecedented event - a transcontinental road race across America that required them to run an average of 40 miles for 80 consecutive days.

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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm.

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When Norway became a Nazi conquest in April 1940, Ruth's effort to join the rest of her family in Britain became ever more urgent.

Ruth Maier kept a diary from 1934 until she was deported to Auschwitz in 1942 at the age of twenty-two.

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SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze. Their job as saboteurs, informers, partisans, couriers or secret agents was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines;

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Christopher Hughes was a remarkable teacher. In the subsequent chapters we see Christopher again through the eyes of those whose lives he touched until at last the kaleidoscope is shaken into focus and we discover the truth about Christopher Hughes, his life and his death.