Michael DorrisMichael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship....

Ann Burton They were women of conviction and courage, whose stories inspire the faithful to this day.Now, Signet launches Women of the Bible, a compelling new series for fans of...

Tanis RideoutThe Paris Wife meets Into Thin Air in this breathtaking debut novel of obsession and divided loyalties, which brilliantly weaves together the harrowing story of George Mallory's ill-fated 1924...

William Faulkner   This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall...

Beryl BainbridgeBainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize–longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters...

Lian Hearn In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot....

Robert Harris 'From what is it they flee?'He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'1660....

Maggie Brooks 1936. Civil war in Spain. A world on the brink of chaos . . .21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire - not least because she lives...

Kathrine Kressman TaylorA rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and...

Shlomo DunourAdiel is a re-telling of the Old Testament story of the Bible, from the Creation of Adam and Eve through the ten generations that culminates with Noah and the...

Sarah Waters An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative...

Katharine McMahon A love story set in turbulent seventeenth-century England. * This is the story of Isabel Stanhope, the daughter of a seventeenth-century English Catholic family, who becomes involved with...