Lucinda Riley   Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in the hills of rural Monmouthshire. But when she returns to the...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon   In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor...

Satyajit Sarna   They called what they had lost the angels share. They believed that the angels would take a little of their drink and, in exchange, bless the rest...

Wilbur Smith On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close...

Leon Uris Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife's inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave...

Laura Jean McKay WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has...

Colin Dann There had always been otters in the stream running through Farthing Wood—and that had never been a problem for the other animals before but when there is a...

Juliet Gardiner Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, to coincide with their major exhibition, and including an introduction by Jilly Cooper. From the First World War to the...

Kit Laybourne The first edition of The Animation Book , published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion...

Frederik Pohl Here is a collection of short pieces about the many marvelous discoveries made by humankind using Heechee technology. Each piece includes illustrations by Kelly Freas. First published November...

Ernest K Gann The story of the successful siege of holdout revolutionaries in the year 73 C.E., ending the first Jewish insurrection against Rome. January 25, 1971 by Simon &...

Louise Erdrich “A fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival.”—New York Times“[A] beguiling family saga….A captivating...