Herman MElvilleWellington Redburn is a 15-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy,...

Leon Uris Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass ,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle...

Anne Herries and Anne AshleyLords and Ladies CollectionRosalyn and the Scoundrel by Anne HerriesMiss Rosalyn Eastleigh was far from being the spinterish old maid Damian Wrexham, Earl Marlowe, had been...

Tracy Chevalier From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Though poor and uneducated, she learns on the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches...

Janel Lee BergSylvie Rosenberg escaped the holocaust—but can she escape the past?Angela Martino is haunted by events from her childhood and struggles to resolve her guilt.Can these two women from...

Robyn Young THE CRUSADES ARE OVER AND EUROPE IS IN CHAOS.After years of fighting in the desert sun - and secretly working for peace with the Brethren - Will Campbell...

Anita Shreve   In a Nazi-occupied Belgian village, Claire Daussois, the wife of a resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses...

William Boyd January 1, 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd

Author: Thomas Hardy Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright...

Ying Chang Compestine The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China.Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated...

Wilbur Smith For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared...

Amitav Ghosh   In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to...