Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles, Alex BellosAre you smarter than a Singaporean ten year old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes I challenge you to solve my problems. Here is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. It takes us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern day Japan, with stories of espionage,

Reichs reveals the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab

Circe is a triumph of storytelling

together with Moon at last

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

this book follows forty people at the heart of a culinary phenomenon

and what it means to be human while also delivering a cracker of a plot

Everyone needs this book if they want to know how to get out of difficult situations whether at home or abroad

Here he is hired

love affairs

a Southern family and their friends grapple with the joys and disappointments of life as a direct result of being raised in a home with strong Christian values

Jhumpa Lahiri

John Lanchester's thrilling