Wilbur Smith Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his...

Daphne du MaurierThe story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years."I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and...

Ben Kane AN ARMY DEFEATEDAD 14: Five long years have passed since the annihilation of three legions in the wilds of Germania. Although the bones of 15,000 soldiers now moulder...

Anne HolmThe story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy,...

Anouk Markovitz A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular sect of Hasidic Jews, the Satmar.         ...

Chaim Potok As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak,...

Margaret CravenAmid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems - a village so steeped in time that, according to...

Philip Roth The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of...

Hans Peter Richter   From winner of Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for Friedrich and for readers of Number the Stars  and If I Should Die Before I Wake...

Wally Lamb New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who...

Gillian Slovo Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris...

Halldor Laxness Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At...