Kate Morton My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate...

Linda Grant Orange Prize Winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Llinda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in...

Rosie HarrisHe was a tyrant. She was his daughter.Kept a virtual stranger by her bullying father, fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. Michael Quinn is admired...

David LissThe Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels...

David Liss Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer. Lienzo, a Portugese Jew,...

Alessandro Spina The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow , a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation...

Wayne Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a captivating novel by Wayne Johnston. This award-winning novel follows two intertwined stories that span three generations, creating a vivid picture of...

Nell Leyshon The Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon.'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand'The...

Helen Sedgwick Róisín and François meet at a research station on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica; each has been brought to this wild, remote location by a fierce desire...

Jane AustenFew novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their...

Pai Kit FaiIn the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha, a riveting saga of early twentieth-century China, where a mother and a daughter fight to realize their destinies in...

Jessie Burton One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose...