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by Peter Ackroyd
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by Marie Benedict
Published Oct 2021
Read ReviewsA master storyteller whose clever mind may never be matched, Agatha Christie's untold history offers perhaps her greatest mystery of all.
by Gill Hornby
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsFor fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsWhat will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
by Patrick deWitt
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.
by Stephen Jarvis
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.
by Helene Wecker
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsA chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
by Colson Whitehead
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsBoth spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.
by Felix J. Palma
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsA skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
by Glen Duncan
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsHere is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legendmesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first centurya man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
by Adam Foulds
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsIn 1837 the great poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach - a mental institution on the outskirts of London. Soon another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the cloistered world of High Beach and its residents. (Paperback Original)
by Hannah Tinti
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsRichly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.
by Brian Hall
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA fascinating and exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert Frost.
by Michael Cox
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsConvinced he is destined for greatness, Glyver will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he knows is rightfully his. A story of betrayal and treachery, of death and delusion, of ruthless obsession and ambition.
by Geraldine Brooks
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American historyby the author of the international bestseller Year of Wonders. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
by Matthew Pearl
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsA magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
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