A man attends a seance in a Hampstead drawing room and by the next chapter is on a planet under a double sun, where every landscape strips away another consolation.
A house built on stolen ground, cursed by the man hanged for witchcraft to make the theft legal, and inhabited two centuries later by an impoverished spinster who must open a cent-shop in the front room.
A strange discovery examines the intersection of fiction and memory through a layered narrative that revisits the imagined world of a past tale while engaging with broader questions of truth, perception, and human experience.
The trumpet-major focuses on life in an English village during the Napoleonic Wars, exploring how national conflict quietly intersects with personal destiny.
Those Brewster children explores the emotional rhythms of domestic life through the lens of motherhood, childhood, and the steady balancing act between affection and discipline.
When gallery co-manager Audrey Spencer finds herself stranded on Hibernia - a forgotten island just off the mainland coast - she blames an old white house, and her own whimsy.
The Child of Pleasure Book IV by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a captivating novel that epitomizes the essence of Italian literature within the context of the Decadent movement.
Baree is born in a hollow log, half wolf and half dog, and grows up between the two - a trapper's daughter on one side, the pack on the other, and a wilderness that does not care which he chooses.
The Child of Pleasure Book III by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a captivating novel that epitomizes the essence of Italian literature within the context of the Decadent movement.
A great bridge-builder, a Boston marriage, a first love found again in London, and a cantilever span over the St Lawrence that his firm has been asked to build cheaper than it can safely be built.
A cipher message, a murder at a moated manor house in Sussex with the victim's face destroyed by a shotgun, and then - halfway through - the book stops and goes to a Pennsylvania coal valley, where a secret society runs the mines by terror.
Lorsque le musee d'Orsay autorise Lilianne Milgrom a copier L'Origine du monde, elle penetre dans l'univers secret du plus celebre tableau de Gustave Courbet.
In the ten years since his parents died in a fire he predicted but couldn't prevent, seventeen year old Matt is trying to stay out of trouble, biding his time until he graduates and ages out of foster care.
कोई कितना भी दार्शनिक ज्ञान बांटे कि मनुष्य इस दुनिया में अकेला आया है और इस दुनिया से अकेला जायेगा किन्तु जब तक वह इस दुनिया में है उसे परिवार और समाज की हमेशा जरूरत रहती है और चाहे भी तो इनसे पृथक नहीं हो सकता।
A man who has spent his life in one office arrives at a railway junction with no plans, and stays - and the station tells him its stories, including the signalman on the line below the tunnel mouth who has seen something on the track.
A man vanishes from a Norfolk inn between the fish and the entree, leaving a hundred thousand pounds and a mission from an American millionaire undelivered - and the guests who watched him go have their own reasons for it.
Somerset, 1685: a gentleman wins a wife in a quarrel over a toast, Monmouth lands at Lyme with a rabble, and a letter that could hang everyone is in the wrong hands.
Five early stories of men posted where the empire runs out: a Dutch trader married into a Malay family and despised by both sides, a colonial agent alone at a river station, a Breton farm where the peasants deal with a fool.
The country of the pointed firs unfolds as a gentle and immersive portrait of life in a small coastal village, capturing the rhythms, traditions, and quiet beauty of its isolated setting.
Joyce of the North Woods explores the quiet yet profound transformation of a woman navigating emotional isolation, suppressed longing, and social constraint.
The slaves of the Padishah unfolds in a landscape shaped by political change and cultural conflict, weaving together the destinies of individuals caught between ambition, loyalty, and the shifting power of empires.
The auto boys' quest captures the spirit of early motoring and the restless energy of youth through a journey marked by ingenuity, competition, and discovery.
A woman is married, in Scottish law, by a form of words she did not know were binding - and the man who spoke them is a brutal athlete who wants her only because she is now his property.
Frank Softly, disinherited, tries caricature, portrait painting, forging Old Masters, and finally coining - and narrates his own downfall with unbroken good humor, from the colony he has been transported to.
When Nancy and Charles fly from Scotland to visit their daughter Lottie and her family in New Zealand, Nancy finds herself making an odd decision while jet lagged.
Exmoor in the 1680s: the Doones, a clan of outlawed gentry, ride down from their valley to rob and murder as they please, and a yeoman's son who saw them kill his father falls in love with the girl they are raising as their own.
