Cutting For Stone

Abraham Verghese

A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their...

How to Make Gravy

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'...

In Search of Lost Time: vol. 2

Marcel Proust

In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new obje...

Rejected Books: The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time

GRAHAM JOHNSON AND ROB HIBBERT

A collection of forty hilariously unrealistic, totally ridiculous covers for books that will never, ever be published - from the authors of Images You Should Not Masturbate To. This collection of imagined book covers will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud with every page turn. Though P...

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future

Vaclav Smil

Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world.  We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi...