Книги Abacus

Rubicon. The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic | The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended u...

Shantaram | A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an a...

The Crow Road | From its bravura opening onwards, The Crow Road is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to...

The Little Paris Bookshop | On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which boo...

Tangerine | The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the horrific accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable r...

Newcomer | International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender - Newcomer - as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder. Detectiv...

Messy. How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World | The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scat...

The Book of Fate | The novel that became a huge bestseller in Iran, before it was banned by the government. A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an ordinary girl, passionate about lear...

The Right Attitude to Rain | The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in lo...

A Death in Tokyo | The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a ...

Little Fires Everywhere | Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In...

Lincoln | In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realis...

Salvation of a Saint | When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to Ayane being the logical suspect, bu...

Leo The African | From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, sla...

The Mountain Shadow | The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's impro...

Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy | Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? W...

The Bridge | The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. B...

The Bean Trees | An enchanting and classic novel of a young woman's voyage of discovery across the Midwest. Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and t...

Persian Fire. The First World Empire, Battle for the West | In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, vict...

The Big Picture | On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But ...

The Wasp Factory | 'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmere...

Samarkand | Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genuis...