Mary Doria Russell Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of...

William Styron In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the...

Mary Lawson 'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne TylerClara 's rebellious older sister is missing....

Manda Scott   A Treachery of Spies is an espionage thriller to rival the very best, a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse, played in the shadows, which will keep you...

Betty SmithThe American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century."A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart...

Sebastien JaprisotNow a major motion picture from Amelie's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: A Very Long Engagement based on...

Suzanna Kelman941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Professor Josef Held appears to live a quiet, solitary life. That is, until he meets Hannah, an enigmatic woman with whom he shares an undeniable connection....

Kaye Gibbons When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a...

Author: Nicholas Sparks et in North Carolina in the late 1950s, this novel is a deeply moving story of two people discovering love for the first time and the changes...

Maggie HopeAs bombs begin to fall, her strength will be tested...A newly qualified nurse, Theda Wearmouth is delighted to gain a place at Newcastle Hospital. But the onset of war...

VS Naipaul A fictional history of colonialism presents stories whose protagonists range from the disgraced Sir Walter Raleigh to the foppish nineteenth-century revolutionary Francisco Miranda. January 1, 1995 by MINERVA...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' RedAlva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil...