Robert Goddard It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a...

Cecelia Holland It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other clans,...

Tasha Suri Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a...

Bernard Cornwell At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight …Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old...

Mary Beth Norton The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION preserves the text's approach to American history as a story of all American people. Known for a number...

Simon Scarrow The bestselling new Roman army novel from the much-loved authorIn the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is...

William Goldman No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man , Tinsel , Boys and Girls...

Sharon Kay Penman Here, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of a Celtic society ruled by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, on a collison course with a...

John Gross "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In...

Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

Peter Hoeg Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann...

Nick Pron WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence.Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began...