Hans Peter Richter   Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early 1930s. At first, Friedrich seemed to be the more fortunate, but when Hitler...

Yo Man Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one-child policy.Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about...

Emma Donoghue Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young...

Yoel SheridanFrederic Tuten has had a remarkable life, writing novels, traveling the world, and even teaching writing with Paul Bowles in Tangiers. Spanning three decades, he brings us from his...

Amy HarmonItaly, 1943―Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but...

Sjon From the Mouth of the Whale is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men...

Michael Grant Perfect for fans of Girl in the Blue Coat, Salt to the Sea, and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending,...

Andrea Levy From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman...

Nick Hornby   Funny Girl - the latest novel from Nick Hornby, the million-copy bestselling author of About a BoyMake them laugh, and they're yours forever . . .Barbara Parker...

James ClavellThe heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young...

James Clavell   Gai-Jin   It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the...

Susie Aziz Pam Galilee Gold is a novel inspired by Daher el-Omar, the Bedouin King of eighteenth-century Galilee, who was willing to do anything to achieve prosperity in his region,...