Atlantic Books
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England: 1,001 Things You Need to Know
Hobbes N.
Despite a thousand years of glorious history, many people know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped England and its heritage. Where di
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Snowdrops
Miller
Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas,
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The Dinner
Koch Herman
An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner. They need to discuss their teenage sons. The boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on CCTV.They remain unidentified - except by their pa
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The White Tiger
Adiga Aravind
Meet Balram Halwai, the "White Tiger": servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, cr
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The Prospector
Le Clezio J.
J.M.G. Le Clezio is the Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Fiction.
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and belove
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Tony and Susan
Wright Austin
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manu
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Waterloo. A New History of the Battle and its Armies
Gordon Corrigan
Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revoluti
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