Doubleday
Jamrach’s Menagerie
Sometimes a novel comes along that one reads simply for the pleasure of enjoying the skill (or is it magic?)…
Mistress of My Fate
In October 1789, fearing for her life, 17-year-old Henrietta Ingerton makes the fateful decision to flee from the only home…
The Hand of Fatima
Editors' choice
In 1564, after years of Christian oppression, the Moors of Grenada exact a terrible revenge against their masters: after the…
Prophecy
Editors' choice
Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where…
In the Garden of Beasts
“Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselves suddenly transported from their…
The Ring of Solomon
The Ring of Solomon is a prequel to the fantasy trilogy about the wise and wisecracking demon, Bartimaeus. The series…
The Sandalwood Tree
It’s 1947, and Americans Martin and Evie Mitchell and their five-year-old son are in India. Martin is one of the…
The Absolutist
Editors' choice
John Boyne is a consummate storyteller, and in his new novel he doesn’t disappoint. You might think there was little…
The Passages of H.M.
Editors' choice
Even readers unacquainted with much of Early American literature recognize the name of literary giant Herman Melville and connect him…
Aphrodite’s War
Growing up half-wild in a village outside Keryneia in northern Cyprus, Loukis Economidou cares more about his mother Dhespina and…
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