Ursula Hegi If you knew that you would experience significant love just once in your life, would you want these years at the beginning, or at the end? This is...

Sally BeaumanUnder the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I...

Susan Sontag Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures...

Tamara Goranson The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1History set her fate in stone…Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress.Trickster. Traitor. Thief.But under a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter.So with her...

Matias FaldbakkenIn a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job. Into this static word a young woman walks through...

Louis de Bernieres When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes...

Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive...

Richard Zimler It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen,...

Steve Berry In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, the arrogant greed of politics comes face-to-face with the weight of history.One by one the seven precious...

Lesley Eames Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out.  She is desperate to be useful but, nursing both an injured hand...

Ta-Nehisi CoatesYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power....

EL Doctorow One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his...