Frederick Forsyth In the spring of 1963, after the last conventional attempt to assassinate President de Gaulle had failed, Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS, launched the plan...

Lezanne Clannachan Tell me, where did Lily go? When Anna takes a job with a family whose niece is missing, she finds herself increasingly haunted by the mystery around her...

Orhan Pamuk At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the...

Bernard Cornwell When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner...

Bernard Cornwell At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Sampson’s car workshop. It there’s no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he’s never...

Rosemary Hawley Jarman The courts of illusion (1983) is a worthy return to the theme of Richard III. The central character is Perkin Warbeck who is here revealed as one...

Natasha Solomons In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she...

Indu Sundaresan Critically acclaimed author Indu Sundaresan picks up where she left off in The Twentieth Wife and The Feast of Roses, returning to seventeenth-century India as two princesses struggle for supremacy of...

Gerald Hanley July 19, 1984 by Sphere

Daniele Vare A Peking love story first published in 1935, The Maker of Heavenly Trousers tells the story of an unnamed foreign bachelor who lives in a courtyard dwelling alone...

Marion Zimmer Bradley In a Britain struggling to survive Roman invasion, Eilan is the daughter of a Druidic warleader, gifted with visions and marked by fate to become a priestess...