Geoff Dyer Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to...

Simon Mawer   Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room brilliantly evokes six decades of Eastern European history, beginning in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Jewish newlyweds Viktor and...

Margaret Ann Brady   Dear America In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to...

Jamie McGuire   The “deliciously intense” (USA TODAY) New York Times bestselling phenomenon follows a good girl drawn to a very bad boy—soon to be a major motion picture starring...

George CourtauldThe fierce secrecy surrounding the corps of the Queen's Messengers has been somewhat relaxed recently, but the 'silver greyhounds' are still bound by the Official Secrets Act. This is...

Roy JacobsenIt is 1939, and the Soviets have invaded Finland. As everyone else in his village flees, burning down their houses in their wake, Timo remains behind. He is unable...

Patricia Volk Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just...

Jennifer Robson USA Today Bestseller! A Real Simple Best Historical Fiction novels of the year! “The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world...

Severna ParkWith her highly acclaimed first novel, Speaking Dreams, Severna Park has emerged as a powerful new voice in thought-provoking science fiction. In Hand of Prophecy, she once again launches...

Craig Shaw GardnerIn Dragon Sleeping, best-selling author Craig Shaw Gardner began an unforgettable adventure that stretched from the everyday reality of 1967 to stunning vistas beyond the imagination where a...

Mick JacksonA novel short-listed for the 1997 Booker Prize offers a humorous portrait of the fifth Duke of Portland, a wealthy, eccentric, nineteenth-century aristocrat who constructed a vast network of...

Jack and Rochelle SutinDescribes the meeting of two escaped prisoners from Nazi labor camps and the dangerous circumstances under which they survived and resisted the war, which included raids on...