Bloomsbury
The Horse Road
This story is told by Kallista, the 14-year-old daughter of a nomadic horsewoman. It is the year 102 BC, and…
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
In 1923, Evangeline English is stagnating in gray, sedentary Dorset. When her sister Lizzie joins Millicent Frost, a charismatic missionary,…
The Académie
Editors' choice
Eliza Monroe, daughter of the future president of the United States, arrives at a French boarding school in 1799 ostensibly…
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
In mid-16th-century Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus, a reclusive canon of the Catholic Church, had labored for decades over an astronomical treatise…
Mister Creecher
Two outcasts inhabit London in 1818 – one of them 15-year-old Billy, a pickpocket and thief, the other a hulking…
In Darkness
Two years after the earthquake, the crippling poverty and devastation faced by the Haitian people has all but disappeared from…
Scarlet
Tyrants come in all forms – princes, sheriffs, and even lowly thief catchers. Fortunately for the people ground under the…
Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War
In 1807, the HMS Leopard attacked the USS Chesapeake off the coast of Virginia. After blowing twenty-two holes in the…
The Song of Achilles
Editors' choice
Whether you are fascinated by the history and the people of The Iliad, or you’re looking for an achingly good…
Pao
The novel opens in Kingston, Jamaica in 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao arrives from China with his mother and brother. They…
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