A 17th-century embroidery book, revealing a Cornish woman's enslavement by Barbary pirates, leads a modern Londoner to Morocco, where she uncovers ancient secrets and finds her heart entangled by history.
In the windswept grandeur of a Cornish estate, a proud man's marriage ignites a three-generation saga of love, betrayal, and dark secrets, all inextricably bound to the ancient stones of Penmarric itself.
A sheltered young Duke, stifled by his guardians, escapes into intrigue, kidnapping, and romance when he rescues his cousin from a mysterious, beautiful foundling.
In 1833 rural Ireland, a British survey to translate Gaelic place names into English changes an Irish-speaking community's lives and culture, showing the human cost of an administrative act.
In a Gilded Age transatlantic waltz, four American heiresses crash the gates of British aristocracy, seeking titles and love while defying the stifling corsets of Victorian societal expectations.
A fourteen-year-old bride from Ceylon moves to war-torn Malaysia, where she becomes a strong matriarch who battles a harsh world and historical trauma to secure her family's future.
In the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a brilliant but detached 'man without qualities' navigates Viennese high society's absurd efforts to celebrate an emperor's jubilee, as the world approaches a major shift.
In Shandong's crimson fields, a family's story unfolds with grand myths and harsh realities as they fight Japanese invaders and their own conflicts, forever staining the sorghum with blood and legend.
In the cutthroat world of Victorian publishing, aspiring writers grapple with artistic integrity and financial ruin as they navigate the currents of fame and failure.
In 1836 Istanbul, as the Ottoman Empire faces modernization, a clever eunuch detective must solve a series of brutal murders that threaten to revive the Janissaries' power and throw the sultan's court into chaos.
In 1905 Princeton, a town of intellectuals like Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair, a hushed-up lynching unleashes a demonic curse, twisting the privileged into psychological horror and supernatural dread.
John Steinbeck re-imagines Malory's Morte d'Arthur, bringing the world of Camelot to life with prose that sounds medieval but is clear to modern readers.
In a kingdom where magic is illegal and emotions are traded, a princess risks her throne and life, hiring a forbidden soothsayer and a criminal to find her father's killer amid court deceptions.
Michael Cunningham's "Specimen Days" tells three connected stories: a grieving boy in 19th-century New York, a psychologist hunting terrorists in a modern city, and two beings navigating a distant future. The novel blends genres and explores life, loss, and the human spirit, all while echoing Walt Whitman's poetry.
In the shadow of D-Day preparations, a young English girl risks everything to find her beloved cat, Tips, after her village is evacuated for a top-secret WWII training exercise.
Three young men from different backgrounds arrive in Vietnam's An Hoa Basin, where constant, hallucinatory combat removes their illusions and changes them forever.
In 1979 Libya, a nine-year-old boy's innocent world shatters when he uncovers his father's dangerous secrets amidst the paranoia and brutal realities of Qaddafi's regime.
During the Great War, an English aristocrat's world breaks apart, making him face his failing marriage, changing morals, and a society lost to the trenches.
In a mystical bayou, a silent boy can hear everything, from blooming flowers to his deceased father's whispers. He must uncover family secrets to heal the broken hearts around him.
After the Jacobite Rebellion, the charming and cruel Master of Ballantrae causes destruction across continents, harming his brother, his wife, and everyone else he meets.
