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A glowing light of modern Italian literature. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart. The New York Times Book...

This boldness withchronology, this richness of detail . . . are quite remarkable in a firstnovel. Fields of Glory deserves itssuccess. The New York Times Book...

When Probation Officer Cate Austin is given her new assignment, she faces the highest-profile case of her career. Alice Mariani is charged with assisted suicide and Cate must recommend a sentence.

Cycle of Violence, written with appealing verve and Colin Bateman's unique blend of sinister violence and sidesplitting dialogue, is a thrill ride through Belfast's most terrifying neighborhood with Miller, Ulster's wisecrack

Makine closes his epic 20th-century Russian trilogy with a poignant, tender ode to the power of wartime...

Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop—in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Céleste Jonquères, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his p...

Emma has everything Rose lacks: a faithful husband, beauty, and a healthy baby boy. Rose meets her in the hospital after her own baby dies from premature birth, and when Emma's child dies in a suspicious house fire shortly after, the obsessive and unstable Rose is the primary suspect. Now, after almost five years in prison, Rose is up for parole, but probation officer Cate Austin must first decide whether this accused murderer can be released ...

From one of the most gifted writers of his generation (Jonathan Yardley), a collection of thoroughly engaging essays about what is timeless in the routine aspects of our...

Vintage Kadare, The Successor seamlessly blends dream and reality, legendary past, and contemporary...

Originally published in 1999 by Secker & Warburg.

Jane Austen's world-famous novels give readers a small glimpse into the author's real life, which was filled with as many ups and downs as those of Emma Woodhouse or Elizabeth Bennet. She too had to navigate her way through a stratified society, filled with rules and repressions that she strove to break. But Austen was even more fascinating than her fiery female protagonists. In Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Myer explores the...

Originally published in Dutch under the title Hertog van Egypte by Em. Queirdo Uitgeverij, BV"--Title page verso.

First published as Whisper of the Blade in Great Britain in 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton, a division of Hodder Headlines.

Originally published: Dublin: Transworld Ireland, 2012.

From the start of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task, as she understands it, is to glean her life's meaning. From birth, it was obvious that she was unlike other children: she was born without thumbs. The Assembler left out other parts too, for she suffers from a syndrome of birth defects that leave...

A fireworks display . . . pulling off the brilliant and possibly illegal trick of being clever and gripping at once. The New York Times Book...

Now published for the first time--Samuel Beckett's first novel, written in the Hotel Trianon in Paris in the summer of 1932 when the author was 26. Recognized as one of the great writers of the 20th-century, Beckett's Waiting for Godot revolutionized contemporary theater and his fiction is ranked by many with that of Joyce and Proust.

World War II military wife Tory Pace discovers the language of carnal desire as she tries to fulfill her marital duty in his darkly funny novel.

On-screen and off-screen reality intertwine seamlessly to weave a tapestry of power, privilege, seduction, betrayal, and intrigue.

Historians have whispered that Elizabeth s passionate affair with Robin Dudley may have led to the birth of a son. In this sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Maxwell fashions a gripping tale of a child switched at birth.