Judi McCoy Maddy Winston has had it. Her no-good fiance has walked out, her computer company is being sabotaged, and now somebody is playing a practical joke on her --...

Helen Harris Six women and one man gather in a community centre in North London for a life writing class run by Dorothy, their uniquely unqualified teacher. They have urgent...

Gail Godwin From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.It...

James W Hall From James W. Hall, the highly acclaimed best-selling author of Hard Aground, Mean High Tide , and Bones Of Coral , comes a stunning and superbly rendered...

Lolly Winston Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels kind. Self-medicating with...

Charles Dickens Introducing young readers to literary classics will be easy with each of the twelve titles in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Each title contains short, concise chapters...

Maisie Mosco When her mother dies in the late 1930's, Bella gives up Oxford to provide for her younger brother and sister. Bella transforms their family-owned clothing store into a...

Haruki Murakami   A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny...

Whitney Otto"Remarkable...An affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAn extraordinay and moving reading experience, HOW...

Michael Chabon   For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust...

Elisabetta Gnone When Hay Lin writes a play about the legend of the four dragons for the school, her friends get involved. The Story is actually about the origins of...

Deborah Crombie A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath...