Doubleday
The Palace of Illusions
Set in a mythic age, “when the lives of men and gods still intersected,” this new novel from feminist writer…
The Commoner
In 1959, lovely young Haruko becomes the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family when she weds the…
Life Class
In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by…
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Haunted
(1) 1570. Queen Elizabeth is on her summer Royal Progress and the court is staying with Reynold Waldegrave, 5th Earl…
Resistance
Editors' choice
What if… the Germans had bested the Allies in the Normandy Invasion? What if… the Germans had then crossed the…
Random Acts Of Heroic Love
Editors' choice
In 1992, Leo Deakin awakens in a hospital in South America to the shocking news of the death of his…
The Kingdom Of Ashes
Set in the fictional town of Rehstadt, near Hanover in the British Zone of Occupation in 1946, this is a…
The Shoe Queen
In Art Deco 1920s Paris when it was a second home to the Americans, the City of Lights was a…
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Gold
1578. Lady Grace Cavendish is maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I in this, the seventh Lady Grace mystery. The…
The Ruby in Her Navel
Editors' choice
Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab,…
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