Bloomsbury
The Calligrapher’s Daughter
Eugenia Kim’s debut novel is a beautiful, poignant story that portrays the life of a young woman during one of…
Snow Falling on Cedars
In 1954, a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged…
Birth of a Warrior
510 B.C. Ancient Sparta. At the end of the first book in the Spartan Warrior series, Lysander, the half-breed trainee…
The Year of the Flood
Described as an epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a tale set in a purely imaginary…
The Secret Wife of Louis XlV: Francoise d’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
When Françoise d’Aubigné was born in a French prison cell to a disgraced criminal and the warden’s daughter, no…
Shanghai Girls
Editors' choice
Pearl and May are two sisters born in Shanghai, China, in the early 20th century. Raised in luxury with traditional…
Sovay
1794. England. The government is in the grip of paranoia about the effects of the French Revolution on Britain’s political…
The Fire of Ares
Ancient Sparta. Lysander is a helot – a slave – in Sparta, one of the most ruthless states in the…
Burnt Shadows
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Hiroko Tanaka, daughter of a traitor, stands on her balcony watching the man she is…
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter
Marie-Therese was the sole member of the Bourbon royal family to survive the French Revolution. She was just seventeen in…
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