Isabella Hammad Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with...

Meir Baram A novel based on historical events during the Middle Ages. The story focuses on Gershom, a young Jew who arrives in Cologne with an urgent warning about hte...

Patrick Worrall It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with...

Susan Vreeland   From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's...

Allison OfananskyAs a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue. A Torah is not something to be thrown away, his...

Sana Krasikov 'A sweeping, colourful read' Mail on Sunday Lose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will...

Sarah Waters 'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the...

Sujit Saraf October 31, 1984 begins like any other day for Gopal Pandey as he sets up his tea stall in a lane off Chandni Chowk the most magnificent and...

Lucinda Riley   From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling...

Margaret AtwoodMyths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives.Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making....

Vanora BennettSet in late fourteenth century England, Vanora Bennett's rich, dramatic new novel presents an England uncannily like our own.The country is in turmoil, The King is in debt to...