Santa Montefiore A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart...Dorset, 1933: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful...

Penelope Fitzgerald   In March 1913, Frank Reid's wife abruptly leaves him and Moscow for her native England. Naturally, she takes their daughters and son with her. The children, however,...

Cecelia Holland Historical Novel - A brilliant epic of imperial slendour and rutless passions. In AD 802 the holy city of Constantinople is at the height of its glittering power,...

Alex Gerlis The thrilling new novel with an astonishing twist from Alex Gerlis, the acclaimed author of The Best of Our Spies, The Swiss Spy and Vienna Spies.‘Did you fight...

Alex GerlisFrance, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is underway. In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special...

Julia Navarro January 1, 2009 by John Murray

Beatirce CooganThis monumental historic novel, often described as the "Irish Gone With the Wind", brings to life an entire generation of Irish history. The story opens on the night of...

Kathryn Harrison In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society a stunning story of women, travel, and flight;...

Louise Erdrich At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother on the reservation. There he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his...

Howard NormanHoward Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds...

Paul Scott William Conway, half English and half Indian, reflects on his Indian childhood, education in England, and ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during World War II January 1,...

Joanna Kavenna From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and futureThe year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been...