Sarah Waters “[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago TribuneMoving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and...

John Masters First published in 1951, The Nightrunners of Bengal is one of John Masters' series of seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the...

Ruth Gilligan At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on...

Anonymous Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to...

James Clavell The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are the days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial...

Pat Barker In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII.'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards...

Colm Toibin * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * *Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is...

Anne Rivers Siddons“A treat to be savored.”—Houston ChronicleA classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Nora, Nora tells the story of free-thinking Cousin Nora Findlay who turns...

John JakesPart history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards...

Pete HamillIt is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor...

Jeffrey ArcherNothing Ventured(Detective William Warwick #1)A Clifton Chronicles spinoff – about Detective Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective.Jeffrey...

Michael Williams   Winner of the 2014 UKLA AwardDeo is a great footballer, a fierce protector of his older brother, Innocent. His brother is easily nervous, easily happy but good...