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...

Robert Harris   Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the...

John Boyne 1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing...

Rainbow Rowell   Wayward Son, the sequel to Carry On, is the stunning new YA novel by the bestselling author of Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell. With all of her signature wit...

Author: Tom Clancy Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine...

Ann Patchett At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from...

Peter Ho Davies In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams...

Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within   Melanie Phillips   When London was hit by suicide bombers in July 2005, the dirty little secret was finally out....

Robert Harris   From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a young Englsh intelligence officer, and the Nazi rocket program.It's...

Fred Mustard StewartAgainst the background of the Civil War, the tempestuous lives of Adam and Lizzie are shaped by history's forces, moving from Imperial India to London's salons and New...

Susan Fromberg SchaefferAffaire royale: Amnesiac princess Gabriella needs protection against scheming kidnappers and finds herself in the company of bodyguard Reeve MacGee. Command performance: Prince Alexander falls for someone from...

Dale Brown   An old enemy is stirring . . . The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakened the bear—and America must pay a...