Minette Walters As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors....

Colm Toibin   It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for...

Alan FurstFrom the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occupied Paris is based on true events of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who...

Paulina Simons   Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do...

ML Stedman   After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a...

Lori Nelson SpielmanThree women. One family curse. The summer of a lifetime.For generations, no second-born daughter in the Fontana family has married. Lucy desperately wants to find love, but for...

Yoel SheridanFrederic Tuten has had a remarkable life, writing novels, traveling the world, and even teaching writing with Paul Bowles in Tangiers. Spanning three decades, he brings us from his...

Jacqueline WoodsonA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off." -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling...

Author: Diana Gabaldon The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she...

Penny VincenziA QUESTION OF TRUST is vintage Penny Vincenzi: rich with characters, life-changing decisions, love, desire and conflict.'There are few things better in life than ... the latest novel by...

Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an...

Kate Mosse   July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange...