Doubleday
In Zodiac Light
This novel is bound to invite comparison with Pat Barker’s Regeneration: set in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, its ostensible…
Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
This is not so much a “historical detective story” as a forensic travelogue of the remains of scientist/mathematician/philosopher Rene Descartes,…
The Book of Unholy Mischief
In her highly anticipated debut, Elle Newmark faces a daunting task: produce a novel that lives up to the hype…
Cathedral of the Sea
Set in 14th-century Catalonia, this novel has become a huge bestseller in Spain with translations sold in 32 countries to…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
The Hartlepool Monkey
The legend of the Hartlepool Monkey is well known in the North East of England in that in the early…
Dreamers of the Day
(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
Cathedral of the Sea
Cathedral of the Sea is a most welcome addition to the growing genre of medieval fiction. It is one of…
Mutiny on the Bounty
In December 1787, a fourteen-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, is arrested in Portsmouth for picking the pocket of a mysterious…
The White King
Set in an East European communist totalitarian country in the 1970-1980s, this novel is narrated by an 11-year-old boy…
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