Now a major motion picture directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. National Book Award finalist "Vivid and ethereal." (New York Times) "Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read - part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius." (Malcolm Gladwell) Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and...
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from...