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....

Hanya Yanagihara Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction-including admirers of Norman Rush's Mating, Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Peter Matthiessen's At Play...

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...

Kathleen Tessaro A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When...

Alka Joshi Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up...

Ann Weisgarber Short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers Long-listed for the Orange Prize Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Debut Novel Prize It is 1917 in the...