Jonas Jonasson   After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's...

Maggie O'FarrellA gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on...

Charles DickensThis novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in a series of adventures, it displays the...

Irvin D Yalom From bestselling author Irv Yalom comes a riveting blend of fact and fiction, a drama of love, fate, and will, played out agains the intellectual ferment of...

John Williams   A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical...

Susan ShermanThe Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles...

Isabel AllendeIn 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their...

Louise Erdrich   In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields...

Thomas WisemanApril 1945 — the last act of the war…The Allied stranglehold on Berlin is tightening by the day, as the escape corridor to the Bavarian Alps and the Swiss...

Henry Fielding   Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest.Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is...

John Williams   William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead...

Steven RowleyFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous...