Amitav Ghosh   At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the...

Martin Langfield Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed...

Gillian Flynn It's been a while... but Camille Preaker has finally gone homeSent to investigate the disappearance of two little girls, Camille finds herself reluctantly installed in the family mansion,...

Lee Smith On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down...

Julie Otsuka Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young...

Melinda Marchetta For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school....

Rebecca Wells "It can wear you to a nub, trying to be a popular person and a good Catholic all at the same time." So says Sidda, one of the...

Khaled Hosseini So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village...

Camron Wright Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging...

Elizabeth Letts A dedicated obstetrician, Clara Raymond comes face to face with her childhood friend, Lydia Benson, who had once saved Clara's life following a horseback-riding accident, a brief reunion...

Susan Sontag Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures...

Evie Wyld From one of Granta ’s Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past.Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse...