Sarah Gainham Night Falls on the City Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker...

Author: Orhan Pamuk From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional...

Pascal Mercier One day mild-mannered, middle-aged teacher Raimund Gregorious suddenly quits his ordinary life and, for no reason apparent to his colleagues or his students, sets off on a journey...

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...

Angela Carter Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's...

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...