Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.
Bright and Distant Shores
: A Novel
by
Dominic Smith
Paperback: 13 Sep 2011 Publication information
From the award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.
The Mistress of Nothing
: A Novel
by
Kate Pullinger
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011 Publication information
The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley.
The Golden Mean by
Annabel Lyon
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011 Publication information
A startlingly original first novel by "this generation's answer to Alice Munro" (The Vancouver Sun) - a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
Fall of Giants
: Book One of the Century Trilogy
by
Ken Follett
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 30 Aug 2011 Publication information
The first novel in The Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Private Life by
Jane Smiley
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 14 Jun 2011 Publication information
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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