Ian St James Elected to the board of a top London bank, Mike Townsend is just beginning to enjoy the good life, but a possible partnership with a very wealthy...

Sally Spector The book aims to tell the story of Piedmontese recipes and products, while also paying tribute to the sacrifices, intelligence, and perseverance of farmers, gardeners, growers, bakers, pastry...

Lawrence Norfolk In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000...

Tom Holland Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest...

Samantha Hayes Claudia is heavily pregnant with a much-wanted baby, she has a loving husband and a beautiful home.And then Zoe steps into her life.Zoe has come to help Claudia...

Michael Jecks It is 1325, and an atmosphere of dread and suspicion hangs over England like a thick fog. The last years have been racked by treachery and mistrust, and...

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling An anthology of fairy stories for adults, this is the sequel to "Snow White, Blood Red". The stories journey through a landscape of...

William Kennedy Winner of The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the third in Kennedy’s Albany cycle, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time...

Alison Weir Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and willful, and...

Rhona Martin When Joanna Pengerran fled Buxford as a child to escape her murderous stepfather, she took refuge among the tinkers. The proud and wilful scion of a great family,...

William Napier AD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance. The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that...

Richard Russo From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable...