John Lescroart Payback is murder.A beautiful woman paid it with her body.  A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money.  It's the vig--the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money.  Now, in...

Stephen Clarke A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why do French job...

Lucy Holland My sister’s heart broke on the river—and the river took it and bore it away.In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in...

Genevieve Cogman A Librarian’s work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew...

Robert Goddard It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a...

Cecelia Holland It was a time of legend, a time of strugle, a time when the Kingship of the hero Brain Boru is being contested by men of other clans,...

Tasha Suri Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a...

Bernard Cornwell At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight …Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old...

Sharon Kay Penman Here, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of a Celtic society ruled by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, on a collison course with a...

Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

Peter Hoeg Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann...

William F Buckley The year is 1963 and Fidel Castro, seeking revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, has become an assassination target. When the CIA's ace agent Blackford...