Diane SetterfieldBiographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of...

Author: James Patterson Discover James Patterson's stunning debut, an Edgar Award-winning novel of prejudice and murder in the American South. You are about to begin a classic award-winning novel of...

Colleen McCullough A worldwide bestseller since 1977, 'The Thorn Birds' is a robust, romantic saga of three generations. It has become know as the Australian answer to 'Gone With the...

David MitchellThe year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed...

Tom Lin Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer....

Judith Lindbergh The mesmerizing chronicle of three tenth-century Viking women whose lives are inextricably bound by fate The Thrall’s Tale is a masterpiece of historical fiction that follows Katla, a slave,...

Victoria Hislop A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes...

Edited by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Storytime magic casts its spell in this treasury of time-honored tales from many lands. Handed down from one generation to another are such delightful stories...

Ben JonsonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from...

Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees   No phone. No electricity. Welcome to one hell of a Christmas. When the Thorne family gather for the festivities–the arguments, jealousies and enmities that...

Bonnie Macbird A heatwave melts London as Holmes and Watson are called to action in this new Sherlock Holmes adventure by Bonnie MacBird, author of “ one of the best...

Alexandre Dumas 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards, he would probably have joked for the last time'Young...