Ned Kelly, Australia's most infamous bushranger, reclaims his story through raw, unpunctuated prose, shifting his image from an outlaw into a misunderstood folk hero shaped by colonial injustice and family silence.
After her daughter's suicide, a Japanese woman in England remembers a summer in post-bomb Nagasaki, where a mysterious friendship and unspoken grief confuse truth and regret.
In a world of misplaced affections, dropped edibles, and upper-class foolishness, only Jeeves's calm and cunning can rescue Bertie Wooster and his friends from their self-made problems.
Two siblings are whisked by a magic tree house into a medieval castle, where they must navigate a feast of peacocks and boys in skirts as unexpected, and unwelcome, guests.
Under Stalin, composer Dmitri Shostakovich walks a dangerous line between artistic honesty and survival, his music a quiet protest against Soviet rule.
In a world of Victorian constraints, a scrupulous clergyman and a rebellious heiress, both compulsive gamblers, risk everything on a glass church and an undeclared love that defies societal odds.
When a history teacher's experiment to demonstrate the appeal of fascism becomes a school-wide movement, two students must expose the danger of unquestioning conformity before it consumes them.
In 19th-century London, a fiercely independent woman craving freedom finds her life changed by a powerful, enigmatic industrialist who believes knowledge is the ultimate currency.
In an alternate 1855 London where steam-powered computers ignite an early information age, a disgraced woman, a fossil hunter, and a spy are drawn into a deadly conspiracy surrounding mysterious punched cards that could reshape a technologically advanced Victorian world.
In the 1970s, a young artist named Reno moves from New York's art scene into the world of Italian motorcycle racing and radical politics, hoping to define herself through speed, art, and revolution.
An American linguist races a shadowy group and ancient Incan guardians to find a hidden, alien idol in the Peruvian jungle—an artifact with the power to save or destroy humanity.
Grounded for the summer and prone to nosebleeds, young Jack finds his summer plans upended when he types obituaries for his utopian town's founders, uncovering murder, molten wax, and historical secrets that bring the past dangerously to life.
A Holocaust survivor hunts a secret society of psychic manipulators who feed on human violence and orchestrate history's darkest atrocities, leading to a confrontation that will decide the fate of mankind.
In the dangerous summer of 1941, an ordinary Danish teenager uncovers a secret that could change World War II, forcing him to risk everything on a broken biplane he can barely fly to deliver the information to England.
Penniless and proud, William Crimsworth navigates the currents of ambition and unrequited love in a Belgian boarding school, finding his voice and an unexpected intellectual kinship.
After World War II, a Japanese internment camp survivor, haunted by her past, apprentices herself to a former Imperial gardener to build a memorial, uncovering secrets, forbidden desire, and war's lasting impact during a communist insurgency.
Undercover as a copywriter, Lord Peter Wimsey enters the 1930s London advertising world, facing catapults, cocaine, and cricket to find the killer who pushed a colleague down a staircase.
An advertising artist in a covert government operation travels to 1882 New York City to investigate a mysterious death, only to fall in love and face the impossible choice between his present and a meticulously recreated past.
Orphaned cousins Bonnie and Sylvia must outwit their wicked governess, Miss Slighcarp, and her accomplice to reclaim their ancestral home, Willoughby Chase, while fending off literal wolves and the harsh realities of a Victorian-era orphanage.
Framed for treason and left to rot in an island prison, a young inventor in the 1890s must literally build his dreams of flight into a desperate escape to clear his name and save his kingdom.
