Ellen Baker Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with...

Author: Margaret Forster Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the...

Sylvia RothchildIn 1893, in the Polish town of Zamosh, eleven-year-old Isaac Leib Peretz had the reputation of being the smartest and the wildest boy in town. He learned to read...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a...

Kill Shot(Mitch Rapp #2)Vince Flynn#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—now a major motion pictureVince Flynn’s intensely suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller puts the young, hungry, and...

Author: Rudyard Kipling With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably...

Allan Massie 'David comes alive in this novel as a fascinating, divided self, but you also feel on finishing it that you have understood a little more about the extraordinary...

Harry Sidebottom AD256 - the spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman world. The sparks of Christian fervour have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is...

Leslie Epstein   This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat,...

Steven Uhly One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish...

Julian Rathbone This is a witty and often profound view of how the English came to be the way they are. January 1, 2001 by Little Brown U.K.

  Donna Morrissey Kit's Law is the passionate, well-told story of three feisty female characters struggling against imposed order and male tradition in a harsh Newfoundland outport. Lizzy is the steadfast...