Ken Follett   In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its...

Anna JacobsRachel Smedling's ailing mother dies leaving her at the mercy of her hateful drunkard of a father. When she leaves home and marries a good man her life seems...

Graham GreenThe novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the...

Peter CareyOlivier is a French aristocrat. the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has...

Douglas KennedyAccomplished…a strangely mesmerising effect…absolutely excellent’New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within...

James Joyce   "Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? To give people some kind of...

Catherine CoulterDear Reader:In the early 1820s, horse racing was a down and dirty sport. James Wyndham, who owns racing stables in both England and America, finds his racing nemesis in...

Author: Danielle Steel Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage....

Louisa M Alcott   Little Women is the story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood.Meg, the eldest and considered as the most beautiful, shrugs off her...

Teresa DenJardienSomeone to Watch over HerRobinson Hollister, the sixth Earl of Rosegoode, inherited his title in a tragic fashion--following the death of his older brother at Waterloo and his father's...

TrevanianNicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious...

Michael Ondaatje   In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue...