Alka Joshi   Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a...

Michelle Moran In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the...

Kathleen Kent Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried, and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright...

Ellis Peters Mystery set in medieval times. January 1, 1988 by Futura

Mary Chamberlain Her heart died in the war – can she breathe new life to it?   Dora Simon and Joe O’Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight...

Lucinda Riley Sweeping across two generations, from the ghettos of Europe during the Second World War to the enclaves of New York's Fifth Avenue, The Hidden Girl traces the life...

Dinah Jefferies The final book in the sweeping new historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.The third book in the Daughters of War trilogy . . .A gripping...

Naomi Wood In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more...

Yann Martel THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal.Lost to grief.With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history....

Pauline Gedge  Seqenenra Tao, Prince of Weset, leads a revolt against the alien Hyksos pharaohs. His provincial aristocratic family is accustomed to a life of straitened gentility. But when the...

Peter Hoeg From the bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes his first novel--an inspired and often hilarious Danish family saga suffused with satire and magical realism. January 1,...

Nicole Krauss Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she...