Eragon
There is something undeniably infectious about Eragon. Christopher Paolini's debut novel - begun when the author was just fifteen - is a book…
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Few opening lines in modern fantasy have done more heavy lifting.…
The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power's memoir traces a remarkable arc - from an Irish childhood in Dublin, through the bloodied streets of wartime Bosnia, to the…
A Promised Land
Whatever your politics, it is difficult to deny that Barack Obama is one of the finest writers ever to occupy the Oval Office. A Promised Land -…
Becoming
Becoming is a memoir that succeeds largely because of how unpretentious it is. Michelle Obama could have written a stately account of life in the…
Hard Choices
Hard Choices is a memoir that does exactly what its title promises - and simultaneously less. Covering Hillary Clinton's four years as…
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
With more than a thousand biographies of Winston Churchill already in print, the arrival of another thousand-page account of his life might…
No Higher Honor
At nearly 800 pages, No Higher Honor is not a book that invites casual reading. It is a dense, granular, and often exhausting account of eight…
Decision Points
Whatever your political leanings, Decision Points is a more engaging and readable presidential memoir than it has any right to be. Bush organises…
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol. IV
The fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson covers roughly six years - from the late 1950s manoeuvring for the…
My Life
At 957 pages, My Life is not a book that lacks ambition. Bill Clinton's autobiography is a sprawling, exhaustive, and at times genuinely…
The Doorman
Chris Pavone has spent over a decade sending his characters jetting across Europe in slick espionage thrillers, but with The Doorman he stays…
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