Published in 1998 Tom Clancy’s techno thriller which spawned a series of hit computer games focuses on special forces commander John Clark and his son in law Domingo Chavez rather than CIA agent Jack Ryan who was the central character of his previous thriller novels. In later novels Ryan had become President of the United States defending his country in a series of wars and against international terrorism. In the opening of the novel Clark and his new black ops team code named Rainbow Six foil a hijacking on a transatlantic flight before defeating a series of terrorist attacks around the world

The Argentinian, Jorge Luis Borges, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A man of wide reading, he produced an enormous volume of work: poems, essays and the short stories delighting in bewildering paradoxes for which he is now best known. He was also the director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 to 1973. His immense erudition not to mention his access to that library’s shelves, is displayed to great effect in what is perhaps his most delightful and enchanting work, The Book of Imaginary Beings. First published in 1957, Borges gradually added to its entries in

As a reader who really enjoys short stories I was excited to sink into this 11 story collection by Lucy Caldwell titled "Multitudes". This collection focuses largely on childhood and adolescence in the backdrop of Belfast. Caldwell writes with such candor about issues that we've all faced in our adolescence years. She paints such a realistic perception of how spiteful adolescents can be, and how elements of our childhood become inescapable in adulthood.

It is 1990 and the Cold War has just ended dramatically with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse the Communist Warsaw pact regimes. Veteran spy Sam Macready who has for decades operated a network of spies and taken part in high risk missions behind the Iron Curtain finds himself in front of a board stacked with his bureaucratic superiors who will decide if his special skills are still required. His loyal and naive deputy tries to persuade them otherwise by presenting four of Macready's most successful Cold War operations..

A sports / business memoir which would be of interest to anyone curious about the origin story of Nike. I had never heard of Knight before, even though his wealth and impact compares to Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. This is part memoir, part branding exercise, part business thesis, which reads like a case study for a marketing or business student. That isn't to say it's not entertaining or revealing about its author. Reading it gives an insight into the culture of corporate sponsorship in sport, of creating a culture in the workplace, using your skills strategically as an entrepreneur and

E. F. Benson (1867-1940) came from an extraordinarily gifted family. His father, Edward White Benson was an Archbishop of Canterbury, his brother Arthur Christopher Benson wrote the words to ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, another brother, Robert Hugh Benson was also a novelist and their sister, Margaret a noted Egyptologist. Benson himself was an archaeologist, memoirist, short story writer and novelist. His fame now rests on his comic novels, particularly the series of novels that feature the characters Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline Lucas or Lucia. His two protagonists first meet in Mapp and Lucia

This is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. It is beautifully crafted, alive and quietly magnificent.

Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone, whilst in the same town a schoolgirl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom’s young boys find their way without their mother, old batchelor brothers Harold and Raymond McPherson, gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.

I have been fascinated by Ancient Egypt since visiting my local museum as a child; a similar experience in Bolton Museum set Joyce Tyldesley upon her career as an Egyptologist and writer. This museum also boasted a reproduction of the famous Nefertiti bust, so Tyldesley’s search for the mysterious queen first began. She has written extensively on various aspects of Ancient Egyptian history, including Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, the female Pharaoh as well as a previous book on Nefertiti.

This book is based around the discovery and subsequent history of a beautiful bust of Nefertiti (mother-in-law

One man’s struggle to expose the corruption at the very heart of Russia’s political system.

This book is both political thriller and exposé of the dark world of corruption in the aftermath of the Soviet Union collapse. Browder shines a light into the workings of a dysfunctional system where backhanders and bribes are common place and brutality is second nature. Political skulduggery all the way from the heart of The Kremlin to the Russian Oligarchs.