Charles Cumming For six years, Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past, but his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation against the...

Rose Tremain  Merivel is an unforgettable hero―soulful, funny, outrageous and achingly sad. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries. From the Orange Prize–winning author Rose Tremain...

Herbjorg Wassmo On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets. Set in...

Noah Hawley From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes the thriller of the year.On a foggy summer night, 11...

Clare Colvin Colvin's novel follows the renaissance dream of Arcadia to its horrific distruction, in this novel about Monteverdi and the Dukes Of Gonzaga. September 10, 1999 by Arcadia Books...

Elizabeth George Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens...

Ross Leckie  "A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains." Such are the observations made and ill-gotten lessons learned in this fictional autobiographical narrative of breathtaking range and...

Chayym Zeldis A riveting, monumental novel about the life of the brother of Jesus Christ—hypnotic in its power and imagery, awesome in its conception and dramatic invention. Brothers is the...

Alex Rutherford THE EPIC STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRES IN HISTORYThe mighty Empire of the Moghuls burst out of Central Asia into India in the sixteenth century....

Alison Fell While Swift may have chosen to overlook the travails of Lemuel Gulliver's wife Mary, Alison Fell imagines a life for her, and takes us on an adventure of...

Katherine Arden **Final part of the trilogy of The Bear and the Nightingale: magic, monsters, and enormous palaces in medieval Russia.** Fire has ravaged Moscow, and a furious mob seeks...

Pauline Gedge  Seqenenra Tao, Prince of Weset, leads a revolt against the alien Hyksos pharaohs. His provincial aristocratic family is accustomed to a life of straitened gentility. But when the...