Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America`s top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife & two perfect daughters. But when his lab is attacked by animal rights activists, Joe is forced to face the past & reconnect with the son he abandoned twenty years earlier. As he struggles todeal with the sudden collision of his two lives
- & to save his eldest daughter from the clutches of an unscrupulous tech company
- Joe has to reconsider hispriorities & take drastic action to save those he loves. An ambitious page-turner of a novel, They Know Not What They Do is perfect for fans of Jonathan Franzen & Dave Eggers.

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From the end of the last Ice Age (10, 000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history & achievements of these islands, their inhabitants & their origins, through the stories of some 3000+ men & women who have shaped not just our history but the modern world. The story is interspersed with countless inventions, deeds of daring do & wickednesses, as well as the origins of innumerable words & phrases, often surprisingly early. From Nosey Parker
- Elizabeth I of her Archbishop of Canterbury, to mayonnaise
- the battle of Mahon, which the victorious French admiral celebrated by inventing mayonnaise & after which we hanged Admiral Byng who lost it ”to encourage the others”, as Voltaire put it. Sykes astonishes on every page, whether with the origin of everyday phrases or nursery rhymes or the countless inventions of the British, from the lead pencil (1568), the tin can, the bicycle, screw propeller & jet engine to DNA, LCD crystals, cement, the electric kettle, the vacuum & Marmite. Beautifully illustrated & with maps of exceptional clarity, this is a book hard to put down in which you learn something very surprising on every page.

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Christopher Award Winner Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Top 100 Books of the Year Selection A stunning literary ...

The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money
- dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition & violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing & desperation: Horace Mc Coy`s classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
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Jacques (Albert Camus`s alter ego) recalls the final years of his life. Famous for his opposition to any form of violence whatsoever, his ideas met with the disapproval of the intelligentsia of the time, & he found himself receiving numerous death threats-a situation that would trigger in him a recurring nightmare: They were coming for him.. .to kill him. ...

Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament & the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop ...

A Hungarian classic & winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe on the eve of WWI. In the foreground, it tells the story of Balint & his flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, told with humour & bittersweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. In the background, the sinister & fast-moving events in the Balkans eventually not only lead to a horrific war, but also to the complete dismemberment of their once-great country. ...

They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe on the eve of WWI. A literary masterpiece, in the foreground, it tells the story of Balint & his flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, told with humour & bittersweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. In the background, the sinister & fast-moving events in the Balkans eventually not only lead to a horrific war, but also to the complete dismemberment of their once-great country. ...

In the sequel to They Were Counted Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful & unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink & his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves & stubbornly ignoring their countrymen`s real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Set in picturesque Translvania, Banffy paints a rich & fascinating portrait of the aristocratic world oblivious to its impending demise. ...

Weaving together the stories of three generations of Samoan women, contrasting the traditional & the modern, They Who Do Not Grieve is a stunning new novel from one of the Pacific`s most exciting writers. Malu, brought up by her grandmother, has only a ghostly memory of her dead mother. & `malu` is also the name of the Samoan woman`s traditional tattoo, & the shame & grief not completing the tattoo ceremony can haunt a life forever. Young Malu, watching the Americans living on the isl&, sees the modern way, the Nineties discontent overtaking the Sixties notions of an island paradise, whilst hearing tales from the older Samoan women of the old life. Although destined to repeat the patterns of the past, Malu can turn them into vivid stories for the future ...