| Pompeii: A Novel | | Robert Harris | | Roman engineer Attilius rushes to repair an aqueduct in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, which, in A.D. 79, is getting ready to blow its top. Attilius meets Corelia, the defiant daughter of a vile real estate speculator, and later fights his way back to Pompeii in an attempt to rescue her. The volcanology is well researched and the plot keeps this impressive novel moving along toward its exciting finale. |  | |
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| The Sum of Two Squares | | Cecil Johnson | A humorous look at life in a northern mining village, as seen through the eyes of a young man who was the first in two hundred years of his family's mining history to aspire to higher education. Once qualified, he came back because the ties with his 'Ain Folk' were far too strong to allow him even to contemplate doing otherwise.
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| Roadworks | | Gerard Readett | African terrorists hijack a city's transit infrastructure threatening to drop buildings on commuters and world leaders gathered for a NATO conference. After discovering a local crimelord is helping the terrorists can Hugh Ryan, a Transport Authority Controller, still get a grip on the escalating chaos?
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| A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 | | Jan Morris | | Some of the author's finest articles are brought together here. Age might now restrict her travels, but her memories of travel are a delight. Her wonderful descriptions evoke the spirit of so many places. For example, Delhi is: the capital of the losing streak, the metropolis of the crossed wire, the missing appointment, the puncture, the wrong number. |  | |
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