Penguin

From "New York Times" bestselling author Peggy Noonan comes "a beautifully written testimony about . . . the most historically recognized pope" ("Library Journal") With such accla imed books as "When Character Was King," Peggy Noonan has become one of our most eloquent and respected commentators. Now she offers a stirring portrait of a spiritual...

The headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello, the leader of the Vigils, a secret society that rules the school, to help with the selling of 20,000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power - he is the Assigner, handing out to the boys tasks to be performed if they are to survive...

Economics, social policy, medicine, culture, popular religion, the position of women, the role of the Jesuits, the importance of hunting: it's hard to think of a significant feature of human life that is not given serious and well-informed treatment in this book. The result is one of the most impressive general histories to have appeared for many...

Hersquo;s the man everyonersquo;s got an opinion on. Hersquo;s taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us off our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives. Dude gives you the ammunition: why itrsquo;s time for regime change at Number Ten; the whoppers...

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of...

Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man's return to an Africa he no longer recognises, "The Lower River". Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business...