Joey Smallwood, a privileged boy intent on making a name for himself, and Shelagh Fielding, a journalist who pens his rise to power, confront their own frailties, secrets, and mutual love, in an immensely rich and utterly involving no...

A Book-of-the-Month Club 'Best Novel of 2007.' 'An absorbing patchwork narrative....Johnston may be the best of all the 21st century's neo-Victorian novelists.'—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn the waning days of World War II, Sh...

Devlin Stead grows up a lonely orphan in late 19th century Newfoundland. When he begins receiving letters from the esteemed but mysterious explorer Dr. Frederick Cook, they entirely change his understanding of who he is and what he m...