Alice Hoffman This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a...

Federico de Roberto The Viceroys tells the story of a noble family of Catania, of Spanish origins. This family, the Uzeda princes of Francalanza, were during the previous Spanish rule "Vicerè"...

J Ryan Stradal When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on...

Michael Golding In the 14th century, on an Italian island called Riva di Pignoli, terrible and wonderful things happen. A corpse is washed up on the shore and is quickly...

Erika Johansen In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch.As she has come into her own as the Queen of the...

Susan Howatch Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an...

Iris Origo Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the...

NIgel Firth September 13, 1982 by HarperCollins Publishers

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Michael Sheldon Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation. But...

Flora Fraser "There are two types of British queens," says Columbia University historian David Cannadine."Those who hold the position strictly as wife of the king, and those (few) who have...

Garrison Keillor This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and...