When Sir John FitzAlan, lord of an elite mercenary company, is rewarded with the Aquitainian barony of Savignac by Richard Lionheart, his future seems straightforward enough: restore a neglected estate to readiness for war and make the best he can of an arranged marriage to its baroness, Mellisane, a woman he has never met.
Arthur Morrison's The East End Trilogy gathers three landmark works of late-Victorian urban realism: Tales of Mean Streets, A Child of the Jago, and To London Town.
Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Mark Twain's most unsettling late works, a novel that begins in the comic register of a Mississippi River town and gradually darkens into a forensic examination of race, identity, slavery, and social performance.
Diamonds and danger dazzle in Ciesielski's latest enchanting romp through post-war Europe as estranged spouses and jewel thieves hunt an elusive Valkyrie tiara.
