In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journe...

The bestselling author of The Bolter returns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home. When eighteen-year-old Grace Carlisle arrives in London in 1914, she's u...

Set in the French and Spanish courts of the eighteenth century, this novel is based on a true story about the fate of two young princesses caught in the intrigues and secrets of the moment Philippe d'Orleans, the regent of France, ha...

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre...

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal.' Sunday Telegraph ' Likely to rank as the author's best book.' Saturday Review 'This novel catches fire.' N...

The author of the bestselling Rebecca delivers a novel of good and evil, in a haunted town in Italy whose distant and terrifying past comes alive again, five centuries later. Twenty-five years ago, Armino Fabbio left his Italian home...

No, we're not talking Bonnie Prince Charlie here. The title character of Giles Foden's debut novel, The Last King of Scotland, is none other than Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda. Told from the viewpoint of Nicholas Garrigan, ...

Fleeing Rome in the wake of dark rumors of incest, lust, and murder, Lucrezia Borgia finds refuge in a loveless marriage to Alfonso, duke of Ferrara, only to be accused of the poisoning death of Bianca Tedaldo, one of her ladies in wa...

On the day of her birth, Auriane received a mysterious amulet from a priestess-and a doubleedged prophecy of doom and glory. The daughter of a Germanic tribal chieftain, Auriane witnessed unspeakable horrors committed against her peop...

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two s...

A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France's most legendary and notorious queen.Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eigh...

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! Keira Knightly is to produce and star in the movie adaption of The Other Typist! A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…"From the first page [I...

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indom...

"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." (Malcolm Gladwell) A thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been c...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a...

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant....

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentle...

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to f...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for historical fictionA whistle-blower.  A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris.  Alf...

Recalling the work of Umberto Eco, a historical mystery set in the late fifteenth century follows a priest's physical and spiritual quest to solve the mysterious disappearance of the remains of the martyred Saint Katherine of Alexandr...

"Tis a small canvas, this Boston," muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America's far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for...

The classic novel of speculative history by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville describes what might of happened if General Ulysses S. Grant had been killed in an 1863 equestrian accident, leading to a Confederate victo...

Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands ful...

In Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive Is...

Set in Birmingham during the struggle for civil rights, FOUR SPIRITS, in a series of vignettes, tells the stories of several characters, both black and white, as they adapt to the upheavals in Southern society--or fail to. A New York ...

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful Frances Howard comes ...

The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio…and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC.   London,...

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful si...

A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy–the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the s...

In Japan in 1892, after a threat to her father's life places her in great danger, Kathleen Mallory is sent to the Teahouse of the Look-Back Tree where she, immersed in the sensual and forbidden world of the geisha, is trained in the a...