Andrew Rosenheim   A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War.It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there...

Annabel Lyon On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly...

Kate Quinn   The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network.First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all--and fixes his gaze on...

Michael Curtis Ford Winter, 401 BC. When leadership is forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms, it is up to him to inspire the...

William Boyd When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in...

Jude Morgan From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live - the intense,...

Orhan Pamuk At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the...

Bernard Cornwell When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner...

Bernard Cornwell At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot...

Joseph Kanon Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his filmmaker brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances -- the papers say it was an accident,...

Dorothy Dunnett 'We are going to the Westmann Isles. We are going to tamper with Nature, defy law and cheat pirates. We are going to sail the stiffening ocean to...

Rosemary Hawley Jarman The courts of illusion (1983) is a worthy return to the theme of Richard III. The central character is Perkin Warbeck who is here revealed as one...