Herbert George Wells was the most famous writer in the world, the man who invented tomorrow; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his Utopian dreams. This title presents his portrait.

Presents ten stories of lives in this book, that are recognizable and strange: a boy makes a discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gather at the bedside of their dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days of Key West washes up on other shores. The stories are comical, dark, and poignant.

Taking in sixteenth-century wizardry, court politics, the modern shipping industry, the cinematic version of The Invisible Man and personal letters and family photographs, this novel offers a testament to man's insatiable desire for knowledge.

London's most successful journalist, Harold Cleaver abandons home, partner, mistresses, and television, in the quest to climb above the noise line, and to get beyond the interminable clamour of the public voice. Weeks later, snowed in at five thousand feet, Cleaver discovers that there is nowhere so noisy and so dangerous as the solitary mind.

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. This title examines how the tidy suburban realities of Okada's life, spent cooking, listening to jazz and drinking beer, are turned inside out.

A classic of post-war European literature, this is the tale of a man at the limits of physical and mental endurance beyond the end of the civilised world. It is about a Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf who, haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, hopes to win fame by being the first to identify craters in the landscape made by meteorites.

A work based on recorded stories and conversations, aphorisms and Bail's thoughts on art, literature and landscape.

A young woman meets Albert Einstein. He discusses his theories with her, as well as his responsibility for the creation of nuclear weapons. He also talks about his personal life, the difficulties of fame, and how his dreams of worldwide peace were shattered. This book presents concepts of physics and philosophy, aimed at the non-scientific reader.

'For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water'. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning.

Deals with the subject of families. This book tells of ordinary people, who've had to recreate a life after hardship. It talks about: the sole survivor of a plane wreck that killed her family; a father raising his second family, when his 2 year old son dies mysteriously; and more.

Zigzags the globe in search of Osama bin Laden to Britain, France, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and closer to the heart of darkness in the tribal regions of Pakistan. This book features interviews with experts and imams.

Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, this book presents a record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin's Presidency.

Eleven executives are seated round a meeting room table. The president harangues them about cost cutting, restructuring, redundancy. This novel describes their thoughts.

One ordinary summer's day a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. The perpetrator was never brought to justice so the authorities suspect the same killer has struck again.

Howard Marks was released after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two best-selling books, stood as a parliamentary candidate, applied to become the country's Drug Czar, and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one man shows.