The Secret Servant (#7 Gabriel Allon)

Daniel Silva

When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, he had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignmen...

Genius and the Goddess

Aldous Huxley

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to ques...

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Marianne Cronin

An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short.No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.Dodging doctor's orde...