John Gregory Dunne In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest—"The Virgin Tramp"—and suddenly a...

Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in...

Jack Whyte Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot The orphaned baby Arthur—heir to the Colony...

William Garner A key member of the SIS's elite Operation Highflyer has vanished in Czechoslovakia. Eighteen months later he reappears in neutral Vienna, requesting political asylum and denying all knowledge...

Steven Saylor  The House of the The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder [ The House of the The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder by Saylor, Steven ( Author ) Paperback...

Andrew Rosenheim   A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War.It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there...

Annabel Lyon On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly...

Shashi Tharoor On-screen fiction and off-screen reality intertwine in a story of the glitz, glamour, egos, and double standards found in the Hollywoodesque Indian film world September 20, 1993 by...

Michael Curtis Ford Winter, 401 BC. When leadership is forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms, it is up to him to inspire the...

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William Boyd When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in...

Jude Morgan From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live - the intense,...