John Gardner Gus Keene, former colleague of Herbie Kruger in the British Secret Intelligence Service, is, like his old friend, retired. Yet he has barely had time to smell the...

Judith Lindbergh The mesmerizing chronicle of three tenth-century Viking women whose lives are inextricably bound by fate The Thrall’s Tale is a masterpiece of historical fiction that follows Katla, a slave,...

Jack Trevor Story Horace Spurgeon Fenton, struggling scriptwriter is Jack Trevor Story's alter ego - over-committed financially and emotionally.In this darkly comic novel Story documents his hero collisions with the...

Hilary Bailey Re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this...

Pauline Gedge  Kamose assumes command of the rebellion of the native princes against their overlords following his father's death, making a perilous sweep up the river Nile toward the delta...

James Crumley Author's debut novel, set during the Vietnam War.Crumley's disturbing Vietnam novel. In '62, Sergeant Krummel assumes command of a crew of rebellious, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities only...

Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward (1823), Scott's first "European" novel, was an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and contemporary Britain all...

Zoe Ferraris The one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband...

Kaye Gibbons When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a...

Reay Tannahill In fifteenth-century Scotland, Bishop Gavin Cameron of Kinveil, the chancellor of Scotland, is determined to stop Archdeacon Columba Crozier's plot to destroy the king January 1, 1986 by...

Harry Turtledove The dazzling story of a boy who rises from poverty and hardship to become the greatest leader his world has ever knownKRISPOS RISINGBorn a ragged peasant, Krispos lives...

Jane Gardam The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a...