Louise Erdrich Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when...

Anton DiSclafani A gloriously rich coming-of-age novel set in southern high society, 1930s America.My parents sent me away because I wanted too much, wanted badly. And all that want was...

Simon Sebag Montefiore   Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson "Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica," wrote Errol Flynn.In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast...

Kurban Said First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet.  Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a...

VV Ganeshananthan Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path...

Marek Halter Halter returns with a remarkable tale, based on truth, of the little-known crusade by a 16C Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, 4 centuries before the...

Natalia Ginzburg 'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.'Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick...

Yael van der Wouden An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's...

Antonio Munoz Molina From the author of Sepharad comes an internationally best-selling novel set against the tumultuous events that led to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.October 1936. Spanish...

Simon Scarrow It is 1565 and the war between Islam and Christianity has raged for centuries. The Ottoman Empire's power threatens to engulf Europe. But first Malta must be taken,...

Elif Shafak A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus....