This is the complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively or[...]

Originally published in 1941, this pocket-sized volume preserves the language of diners and roadside restaurants during the '30s and '40s. From "all hot" (baked potato) to "dog soup" (water), the long-lost terms are part fascinating, part funny, and often politically incorrect by today's standards. [...]

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.

"Little Women" is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultu[...]

""Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.""
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy--which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. W[...]

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Delicate Truth" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
""You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous.""
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all thing[...]

The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multina[...]

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize" " a powerful, engrossing new novel--the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored value[...]

National Book Award Nominee
A Best Book of the Year: "The Washington Post," NPR, "USA Today," "San Francisco Chronicle," "Financial Times," "The Seattle Times," "St. Louis Post-Dispatch," "BookPage"
1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank[...]

A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. "New York Times" bestse[...]

Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter.
Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it's 1982, [...]

Reason, Facts, and statistics...
Dickens? scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town[...]