đ Where past meets powerful storytelling.
Richly detailed and vividly imagined, these novels bring bygone eras to lifeâilluminating the people, events, and moments that shaped the world.
A drunken womanizer succeeds as a preacher in 1920s evangelical America in this satire by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Main Street.Elmer Gantry is unsure what do to with his future. The captain of the college football team, he doesn't care much for...
A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick)Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwallâs âReading Roomâ Book ClubIn this novel, Turkeyâs preeminent female writer...
The Auschwitz ProtocolIn a quiet corner of suburban America, retired detective Emil Janowitz has built a life of comfort, woven tightly with the comfortable fabric of lies. For nearly forty years, he sheltered the truth from his loving wife, constructing a past far...
âDowntonâ fans, youâll love this big house, Engrossing and imaginativeâ - Irish IndependentBetrayal, deceit, revenge, obsession â one house, one family, three generationsCan a house keep secrets?1840âs â When Lord Edward Armstrong builds the house for his bride, Anna,...
The warm sea breeze ruffles the pages of my notebook as I meet the bright eyes of the elderly lady sat opposite me on the porch. Sofia has been keeping a devastating secret for over sixty years. Why did she fake her own death during the war? And why is she back now to...
In this WW2 historical mystery series debut, small-town editor Irene Ingram has a nose for newsâand an eye for clues when one of her reporters winds up dead.âWell written, well researched and with a great sense of time and place, this book gives a different slant to...
HONOUR ISN'T INHERITED. IT'S EARNEDâIN BLOODâTold with smooth authenticityâ â Publishersâ WeeklyâMilitary saga covering the years from the Boer War through WWI. Bosoms still heave and legs still flash, but they're background colour in the story of Murdoch Mackinder...
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalierâs answer to the mystery behind one of the art worldâs great masterpiecesâa set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to...
Oprahâs Book Club Pick for Summer 2024The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name.It is...
Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors' ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings as a peasant boy, Lambert's life takes an astonishing turn when, at just ten years old, he becomes a claimant to the...