Jenny ErpenbeckFrom one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is...

Allegra JordanOn the eve of WWI, two students fall in love in Harvard's hallowed halls and must face a world at war from opposing sidesHelen Windship Brooks is struggling to...

Graham GreenThe novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the...

Esther Hautzig THE ENDLESS STEPPE is based on the author's true-life experience. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.Esther Rudomin was ten years old when,...

Esther HautzigIt is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland,...

Robert Goddard  July 1919. Ex-flying ace James ‘Max’ Maxted’s attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with...

J Courtney Sullivan From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and...

Margaret LeroyWhen seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe...

Jake Wallis Simons   ‘Fascinating and moving’ – Monica Ali‘A powerful evocation of a bygone era’ – Sir Martin Gilbert‘An important subject explored by a writer to watch’ – Jonathan...

Michael Ondaatje   With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World...

Robert MuchamoreSummer, 1940.Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run.Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents.British spy Charles...

Jane SimmonsThis story is set in the 1950's in London, England, its the time when most people didn't own a refrigerator, TV, Microwave or mobile phones. Children played games like...