Lucinda Byatt
Luther’s Ambassadors
In the second of Margrave’s “mystorical” novels Tom Priedeux jumps from 1399, where we left him in The Gawain Quest,…
The Last Station
This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between…
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
This a poignant love story spanning three periods of India’s turbulent history between 1907 and the mid 1950s and…
A Vengeful Longing
This is the sequel to the highly acclaimed A Gentle Axe, the first of Morris’s books to feature the investigating…
The Last Train to Kazan
Ryzhkov, a former Tsarist agent who appeared in A Game of Soldiers, returns to Moscow only to be picked up…
Special Assignments
In this latest addition to the Erast Fandorin series, Akunin offers his international fans a double dose of intriguing and…
The Pure Land
Closely based on historical fact, this is the story of Thomas Glover, the young Aberdeen merchant who became known as…
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia
What an extraordinary insight Nina gives us into the closed world of Stalinist Russia. Starting in 1932, when Nina was…
Count Belisarius
Originally published in 1936, Count Belisarius has not basked in the same limelight as Robert Graves’s two earlier masterpieces set…
The Queen of the Night
Editors' choice
Rome is horrified by a series of violent abductions in which the sons and daughters of the wealthiest Roman families…
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