Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long.

After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up the position of Humanist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent on using computers to model human brain. Lentz involves the writer in an outlandish project.

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This novel focuses on this haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I.

Generosity is Richard Powers' most exuberant novel yet, in which he dares to imagine what might happen when science discovers the genes for happiness...

In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places?

A novel that tells the story of an American company, which starts as a small family soap and candle-making firm in the early 1800s, and of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who diagnosed and then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious harm?

A magnificent novel that probes the meaning of love, science, music and art, by the showstopping author of The Echo Makers. 'The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow - An outright marvel.' Washington Post

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, 27-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an identical impostor.

Shattered by Mark's refusal to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for brain disorders. But what Gerald discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened on the night of his accident.