Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and...

Peter Hoeg National BestsellerStrange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of...

Gus Lee Kai Ting is the only American-born son of an aristocratic Mandarin family that has fled China in the wake of Mao's revolution. Woefully unprepared for life on the...

Margaret Atwood Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this  tale of three fascinating women is another peerless  display of literary virtuosity by the supremely  gifted author of Cat's Eye and   The Handmaid's Tale...

Nikolai Tolstoy The Coming of the King takes us into the world of Merlin, into the bright daylight and the deep shadows of Britain in what we call the Dark...

Len Deighton Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even...

Alice Hoffman This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a...

J Ryan Stradal When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on...

Michael Golding In the 14th century, on an Italian island called Riva di Pignoli, terrible and wonderful things happen. A corpse is washed up on the shore and is quickly...

Erika Johansen In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch.As she has come into her own as the Queen of the...

Susan Howatch Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an...

Iris Origo Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the...