This story of a young widow who becomes one of the most powerful women in India “will transport you across centuries and continents” (The Seattle Times).
Year of Night tells the story of a young Russian emigre and her struggle to free herself from a net of conflicting loyalties, passions and betrayal amid the colour and excitement of 1920s Paris.
In Glasgow at the beginning of the 1930s, the lives of two very different families are about to be changed forever by a tragedy that seems to defy explanation.
Set against the backdrop of three wars - the 1991 Gulf War, World War 2 and World War 1 - the novel follows the fortunes of three women who become involved with the Flint family, the owners of Echo Hall.
In 1850, young Scottish plant hunter John Jeffrey was despatched by an elite group of Victorian subscribers to seek highly prized exotic trees in North America.
Honneure Mansart, the orphaned child of a lowly servant, never dreamed that she would one day find herself servant to the lovely, young Marie Antoinette.
“Fans of light historical fiction will enjoy this novel” of two unwed mothers in post-WWII Liverpool whose lives converge as secrets come to light (Booklist).
Based on Melville's travels in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is told by an unnamed narrator who boards a whaling vessel bound for Tahiti.
Long, long ago, more than six hundred years before the time of Christ, the Greek city of Athens had gone to war with Megara to get possession of the island of Salamis.
The eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War.
A novel based on the award-winning playMagrit, Dolly, Doreen and Mrs Culfeathers are the lifeblood of their Glasgow community and the steamie is at the centre of their world.
