Rose Remain 'Triumphant, and beautifully told...one of the best novelists writing today' GuardianAll must gamble with their fate. But not all can win...In the city of Bath, in the year...

Donald S Olson Written in the form of confessional letters to a French priest, this novel weaves fictional incidents into the biographical facts of the life of Aubrey Beardsley to...

Ben Kane AD 15. The German chieftain Arminius has been defeated, one of the lost Roman eagles recovered, and thousands of German tribesmen slain. Yet these successes aren’t nearly enough...

Balraj Khanna Author of Nation of Fools - A wickedly humorous portrayal of India Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.

Adam Thorpe An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension.Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, take a sabbatical with their three...

Charles Allen The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La'...

David Wishart This book is a complex and intriguing mystery set in Roman times. Banished by the Emperor Augustus, the great poet Ovid was to die in exile. Years after Ovid’s...

John David Morley Set in contemporary Munich, this is the story of Stefanie, who leaves her artist husband on the night of their autumn wedding, remains estranged from him throughout...

Aimee Liu In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee Lee crosses continents and generations, from New York's Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman...

Alexander McCall Smith In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much...

Paul Hoffman The epic story of Thomas Cale-introduced so memorably in "The Left Hand of God"--continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction...

Emily Hauser Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had...