Norton
The Abyssinian Proof
1453. The eve of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isaak Metochites prepares to flee the city…
Scottsboro
In Alabama in 1931, young people hitching rides on a freight train have a brawl. A group of white…
Not Yet Drown’d
Editors' choice
Catherine MacDonald, a young Scottish widow who has temporarily settled into the Edinburgh home of her older brother, finds her…
Someone Knows My Name
Aminata Diallo is enslaved as a child in 1745 and lives through six decades by working in the indigo fields…
The Air We Breathe
The First World War looms in the background of this intimate novel, which borrows slightly in themes and setting from…
The Last Summer Of The World
Editors' choice
Rarely does a book present the delicate balance of the relationship between a man and a woman as well as…
The Blackest Bird
On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York…
Canaan
The American Civil War has ended, and the nation begins to heal itself from four torturous years. Canaan is about…
Imposture
Dr Polidori was the youngest ever graduate in medicine, an unfortunate achievement as, through sheer incompetence, all his patients died.…
Pathfinders
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, the author of several books on global history, now has written a comprehensive study of human exploration in…
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