Patrick O'Brian 'Master and Commander' establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and intelligence agent.

Beryl Bainbridge Man Booker Prize Nominee (1998)When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter...

Peter Everett At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women. He is UN MONSTRE SACRE who depicts with passion and conviction only...

Lauren Groff  Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn...

Karl MarlantesA big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war...

Noah Gordon A determined and gifted young physician, R. J. Cole abandons a career with a prestigious hospital to build a private practice in a small Berkshire town, becoming deeply...

Howard Fast Here, in a marvelously gripping and rewarding novel, is the story of the tycoons who created and built the motion picture industry -- not in Hollywood, but in...

Virginia Lee Burton By recounting actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be...

Andrew O'Hagan Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeA Guardian , Spectator , Sunday Times , Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year'What a stunning novel.' Graham Norton'Funny, passionate,...

Christa Wolf Medea is among the most notorious women in Greek tragedy - a woman who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In this novel, Wolf explodes the...

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl(American Girl: Kirsten #1)Janet Beeler ShawIn the summer of 1854, after a long & dangerous journey on a small ship, Kirsten Larson & her family arrive...

Meet Molly: An American Girl(American Girl: Molly #1)Valerie TrippFor Molly McIntire, life seems full of change. It's 1944 and the world is at war. Her father is far away caring...