David Lodge   Everything changes when Timothy’s glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American...

Per Petterson We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I...

Nathan Wolff Twenty-two-year-old graduate student Joe Charnoff is desperate to share his life with the right girl, but can’t even get himself a date. Sharon Gilboa is so tired of...

Author: Diana Gabaldon The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she...

Jeffrey Archer London's Metropolitan Police have just announced a new Cold Case unit with the aim of catching criminals that until now no one has been able to uncover. Four...

David Wishart This book is a complex and intriguing mystery set in Roman times. Banished by the Emperor Augustus, the great poet Ovid was to die in exile. Years after Ovid’s...

Janet FrameSet in provincial, pre-1940s New Zealand, Owls Do Cry explores the Withers family, in particular Daphne Withers. When one of Daphne's sisters dies, a crisis is provoked that leads...

Min Jin Lee   In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea....

Roddy Doyle   The 1993 Booker Prizewinner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused;...

Naguib Mahfouz The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the...

Samuel RichardsonThe publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of...

HG Adler Published for the first time in English, Panorama is a superb rediscovered novel of the Holocaust by a neglected modern master. One of a handful of death camp...