Yoko Ogawa A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers.Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It...

Emily Colin Reminiscent of On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah, readers will adore Emily Colin’s unique and beautifully written debut novel, where one man’s promise to return drives an exquisitely...

Joanna TrollopeJulia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency...

Tess Gerritsen For a considerable time Tess Gerritsen has been producing some of the most challenging -- and disturbing -- crime novels being written today. A speciality, of course, is...

Diana Wynne JonesWhen the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The...

Imogen Hermes Gowar One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears...

Sue Monk Kidd   Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved...

Nurit Zarchi and Rutu Modan The Mermaid in the Bathtub is a charming, gorgeously retro retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Little Mermaid,” by beloved Israeli author and illustrator...

Daniel Silva   Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face...

Anne Zouroudi When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then...

Franz Kafka"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were...

"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages" - Jonathan FranzenEdie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them-even...