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Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, explores facts of ancient and historic world cultures to conclude that business and finance laid the groundwork for human advancement.

The Romanov Blue is a fabulous diamond, stolen from its rightful owners - the Bantu. Now the race is on to find it, with everyone chasing it for their own agenda.

In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built.

As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution.

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholl

A woman, attempting to start a new life after escaping her violent, brutal husband finds that you can' t always leave your past behind you.

Cornwall in the 1780's... After a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family.

Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life, one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered.

Stories from a Canadian fish and wildlife officer. 

At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love mat

The Stump Farm, by Robert J. Adams, follows the trials of Bobby during the time Canada brought its soldiers back from the Second World War.