Jane Austen: A Life

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag...

Nothing but the Night

John Williams

Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimac...

Arifureta: from Commonplace to World's Strongest (Manga) Vol. 1

Ryou Hakumai; RoGa (Illustrator); Ryo Shirakome

The manga adaptation of the bestselling light novel series--with an anime coming in 2019 Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, i...