I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sloane Crosley

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History to baking a cookie in the shape of her boss's face to win her approval, Sloane Crossley can do no right. In a sharp, original storytelling style th... More »

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention ... More »

China Witness
Xinran

$34.95$29.95 (Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus )

In 1912, 5,000 years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to pow... More »

The Orange Trees Of Baghdad: In Search Of A Vanishing Life
Leilah Nadir

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Born to an Iraqi-Christian father and a British mother, and raised in Britain and Canada, Leilah Nadir has never set foot on Iraqi soil. Distanced from her Iraqi roots through immigration and now cut off by war, the clos... More »

The Same Man: George Orwell And Evelyn Waugh In Love And War
David Lebedoff

$29.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )

For literature buffs and history enthusiasts, this is the first biography to compare George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh - two of the greatest 20th century English writers.

Both authors need little introduction. Orwell and Wa... More »