Ken Follett   In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, this novel moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine...

Ann-Marie MacDonald They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island -- a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic...

Philippa GregoryCan a family's mannered traditions and cool emotions erase the horrors of war from a young couple's past?Now back in print from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory,...

Tracy Chevalier   ‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily MailThe girl reminded me of my favourite chocolates, whipped hazelnut creams,...

Don DeLillo The defining moment of turn-of-the-21st-century America is perfectly portrayed in National Book Award winner Don DeLillo's Falling Man. The book takes its title from the electrifying photograph of the...

Natalia Ginzburg 'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.'Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick...

Muriel Spark Mrs. Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, is a near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy,...

Alison PickThe Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best.When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence...

Meir BaramWhen the French monarchy orders the burning of Jewish holy books, Reuven makes a dangerous journey through France to deliver the Tosaphot commentaries to Rabbi Eliezer for editing.First published...

Robert Harris April 1964.The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler’s 75th birthday. A...

Author: Nancy Huston A best seller in France, with over 400,000 copies sold, and currently being translated into eighteen languages, "Fault Lines "is the new novel from internationally-acclaimed and best-selling...

Andrew Rosenheim   A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War.It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there...