NIgel Firth September 13, 1982 by HarperCollins Publishers

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Michael Sheldon Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation. But...

Flora Fraser "There are two types of British queens," says Columbia University historian David Cannadine."Those who hold the position strictly as wife of the king, and those (few) who have...

Garrison Keillor This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and...

Kerstin Ekman Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power.Two violent deaths in the Swedish wilderness; the hurried flight of...

David Foster Wallace The publication of his virtuoso novel Infinite Jest confirmed David Foster Wallace as "one of the big talents of his generation" (The New York Times). Readers who...

Christian Cameron Pisa, May 1364.Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a hired sword in the endless warring between Italy's city states. But when a message...

Julie Mayhew For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me , Impossible Causes is a gripping thriller about isolation, power, and the lies that fester when...

Sarah J Maas Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained...

Susan Howatch This companion novel to "The Rich are Different" is a tale of revenge and retribution, set in the glamorous banking world of mid-20th century New York. It is...

Meg Wolitzer "The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness...