Anita ShreveIn the wet sand by her foot, a bit of colour catches her eye. The glass is green, pale and cloudy, the colour of lime juice that has been...

Amitav Ghosh   At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the...

Robert MuchamoreBritain, 1941.The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover, gathering information and planning sabotage operations. Henderson's boys are part of that network: kids cut...

Gloria D Miklowitz In 1492 people of the Jewish faith were leaving Spain by the thousands. Not even the Conversos, those who had converted to the Catholic faith, were safe....

Susan Meissner The author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the...

Santa MontefioreEllen Trawton is running away from it all—quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down, and her...

DL Bogdan When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn,...

Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti A papal conspiracy is revealed in the midst of a plague in this Italian historical thriller that sparked controversy with the Vatican.Rome, 1683. The citizens...

David GrossmanIn this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to...

Louis de Bernieres ‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial TimesDiscover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernières' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled...

Jane AustenThe more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'Marianne Dashwood...

Margaret Peterson HaddixThirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they're both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period, when JB, a time purist, zaps...