Jennifer S BrownA dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant community in 1935...How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the...

Wilbur Smith   Follow up to BIRDS OF PREY and continuing the saga of the Courteney family. Set at the start of the 18th century in England, East Africa and...

Michael ChabonIn 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill...

Charles and Mary Lamb

Beth Gutcheon In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which...

Melinda Haynes Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and...

Rosie Goodwin If you love Dilly Court, you'll love Rosie Goodwin.ALL SHE WANTS IS SOMEONE TO CALL HER OWN1884, Nuneaton.Fourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never lived outside the Nuneaton workhouse. The...

Lawrence DurrellMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the...

Evan S Connell Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something, even when what they...

Linda Berdoll Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy-beautiful, gracious, universally admired, strong, daring and outspoken-a thoroughly modern woman in crinolines.And every woman will fall madly in love with...

Author: Jonathan Coe The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle EnglandIn the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to...

AB YehoshuaMr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative...