Nina Stibbe This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place...

Sebastian Faulks A Times Fiction Book of the Year'Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.' ObserverHere is Paris as...

Edward Rutherfurd Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that...

Peter CareyOlivier is a French aristocrat. the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has...

Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century...

Alistair MacLeanIn wartime, people are either friends of enemies.In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die.PARTISANSWhen Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction.PARTISANSThree Yugoslavs set...

Nerlla Larsen "Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." — Alice Walker"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel."...

Julian FellowesDamian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but...

Jeffrey Archer Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed.  People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton,...

Migmei YipIn a sunny California apartment, a young woman and her fiancé arrive to record her great-grandmother's story. The story that unfolds of Precious Orchid's life in China, where she...

Melissa Fu It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu,...

Anne Rivers SiddonsTenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of...