Books published by publisher SCEPTRE

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.

New york times bestsellerwall street journal business bestsellerevening standard pick favourite books of 2013, sunday business postthe ultimate 21st century business storyev told jack he had to 'chill out' with the deluge of media he was doing. 'it's bad for the company,' ev said. 'it's sending the wrong message. ' biz sat between them, watching like a spectator at a tennis match. 'but i invented twitter,' jack said. 'no, you didn't invent twitter,' ev replied. 'i didn't invent twitter either. Neither did biz. People don't invent things on the internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exsists. 'since 2006, twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11. 5bn business. But the full story of twitter's hatching has never been told before. In his revelatory new book, new york times journalist nick bilton takes readers behind the scenes of twitter as it grew at exponential speeds, and inside the he

Winner of the 1997 National Book AwardA New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the YearCharles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world?s most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing up in a small Midwestern town, Dolores was simply called crazy. In her manic phases, Dolores became Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba, exotically delusional and frightening, yet to young Jacki also transcendent, even inspiring. In time, Jacki grew to accept, even relish, Dolores?s bizarre episodes, marveling at her mother?s creative energy and using it to fuel her own. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and lyrical, this memoir of a mother-daughter relationship is a testimony to obstinate devotion in the face of bewildering illness.