In the vast, unforgiving landscape of 19th-century New Mexico, two French missionary priests spend decades building a diocese from nothing - battling isolation, rival clergy, and the land itself.
Set between London and a Paris collapsing into revolutionary terror, this is the story of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat trying to outrun his family's name, and Sydney Carton, a wasted lawyer who looks enough like Darnay to matter more than either of them expects.
Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to find his father has disowned him, the Norman lords have tightened their grip on Saxon England, and the woman he loves is being pursued by a man with far more power than scruples.
'Gentle Things is a daring and devouring gothic gem of a novel' - Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The LambThe plague has passed, the fire has cooled, and Lucy North is in desperate need of a husband .
Set against the backdrop of a nation in constant transformation, this novel sweeps through the defining political shifts of 20th-century Iran—from the Constitutional Revolution and the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty to foreign interventions, oil nationalization, and the 1979 Revolution.
The stunning new short novel from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island 'An ageless study of loss, betrayal and survival' - The Guardian Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died.
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.
The clever and compelling tale of a war-scarred journalist caught in the lives of a country rebuilding itself from one of the greatest chroniclers of our times, Kate Atkinson.
Against a backdrop of racial tensions and spanning four decades, Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale explores the entanglements of three lives: Joshua Eubanks, a young black man struggling to overcome the crime, drugs, and despair of the streets; Rachel Weissman, daughter of a Hassidic rabbi, wrestling pangs of rebelliousness against the insular and restrictive practices of her religion; and Paul Sims, the product of a privileged Long Island Jewish family, yearning to escape his troubled past.
Der Wind heulte unaufhorlich durch die alten Fensterrahmen von Sturmkronen, und der salzige Geruch des nahen Meeres drang durch jede Ritze des machtigen Herrenhauses.
