In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father's death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will,...

It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional...

China: 1200 A.D.

In the fourth and final volume of Legends of the Condor Horoes, the first novel in the Condor Trilogy, Guo...

When an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion....

China: 1200 A.D.

Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested...

Of all her novels, Magda Szabo's Abigail is indeed the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.

At the beginning of this...

When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed -...

She's Running Out of Time

Alex Prevost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?

Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she...

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine,...

Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis...

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is...

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where...

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel...

Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he...

Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet...

With Nothing Else to Lose

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to...

The Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called because together, when viewed from...

We’ve all stood on a street corner and let the city’s lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of...

In this extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth...

1871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in...

Two dead at the Adell house . . .

But nothing in the duty officer's report can prepare Melchor Marin for what he finds. A...

The journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was...

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition:...