Tracy Rees Tracy Rees's The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.'A beautiful book. Powerful and...

Kate Heartfield ‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all’1768. Charlotte, daughter of...

Steve Sem-Sandberg Meet The Emperor of Lies: the award-winning novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg. Spanning three decades, this epic chronicle of a Jewish family in Poland tells a gripping story of...

Stephen L Carter A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter's engaging debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park. After...

Salman RushdieA tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with...

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...

Rosamunde Pilcher After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she'd spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie have always summoned the image...

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...