Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle 1), Neal StephensonNeal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil. With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science

But there's plenty to keep her occupied

So she is shocked when her babysitter

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence

analyzing psychologists

they quickly find themselves entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington

a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who

get into and out of relationships

AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias

the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt

A deeply moving and brilliantly-crafted story of parallel lives

and the head of the Commonwealth

Ten years after his prizewinning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka's foremost authors