1/2008

TRENDS: Are you ready to start your Christmas shopping? Current trends show that books on finance and economics are this year’s holiday hit.

Who said crime doesn’t pay? Reading crime novels and thrillers certainly pays off for language learners. On these pages, we present some of our favourites.

By keeping his eyes and ears open, Gil learns what is going on in the company: who is sleeping with whom, who uses his mobile phone illegally on the toilet, and who is involved in insider trading.

Stella Rimington was the first woman to head the British Security Service MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She has published a series of novels about Liz Carlyle, a female secret agent.

Changez, an ambitious young Pakistani, leaves his home for the US, where he succeeds at Princeton University and gets a lucrative job at a top New York consultancy firm.