EL Doctorow   Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between...

Alex Rutherford THE EPIC STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRES IN HISTORYThe mighty Empire of the Moghuls burst out of Central Asia into India in the sixteenth century....

Gita Mehta Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion,...

Cecelia Holland It is 1525. The scene is Hungarian-Turkish border, where Baron Janos Rákossy is preparing to defend his castle against the possibilitiy of Turkish invasion.Rákossy - a man shrewd,...

Christian Jacq The splendor and danger of ancient Egypt continues in the second volume of this magnificent saga. For Ramses, the Son of Light, the coronation has arrived. Now he...

Christian Jacq Historical fiction meets mythology as ancient Egypt comes alive in this monumental epic with over 2 million copies sold around the world.At fourteen, Ramses, the second son of...

Author: Christian Jacq January 1, 1998 by Pocket Books

Author: Christian Jacq In the final novel in the bestselling series, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who wants Ramses to marry his daughter, while revolt is brewing among...

Danny Scheinmann 1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died....

Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval FranceMaggie AntonThe first two novels in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives...

Tracy ChevalierThis collection of original stories by today’s finest woman writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane EyreA fixture in the literary canon,...

Seamus DeaneA haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls...