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In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new...

Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey...

Christopher Forrester woke to find a dragon chewing on his face—and his heart leapt for joy! He’d been dreaming of going back to the Archipelago, the secret cluster of islands where all the creatures of myth still live, and here was his summons. But...

Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although...

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe gathers the most powerful and enduring works of Edgar Allan Poe, spanning tales of fantasy, terror, revenge, and mystery. This comprehensive volume includes classics such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The...

Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the...

One of the most enduring heroines in American fiction, Isabel Archer travels to Europe determined to shape her own destiny. As Henry James later reflected in his 1908 preface, he began The Portrait of a Lady with little more than the compelling image of...

During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received – as a legacy from a friend, the Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham – what is purported to be an Elizabethan portrait. The painting depicts a beautiful young man in...

Anne Berest’s The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of...

Nineteenth-century Europe—stretching from Turin to Prague to Paris—is a landscape of intrigue, violence, and shadowy secrets. Rival factions clash as political upheaval and paranoia give rise to plots, forgeries, and hidden agendas across the continent. Amid events like the Unification of Italy, the Paris...

From the internationally bestselling author comes a tense, globe-spanning thriller starring Gabriel Dax, a travel writer pressed into the shadowy world of espionage. 1963, Guatemala: a country on the brink. A presidential election threatens to elevate a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and union leader—an outcome...

The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward...

The Roots of Chaos #1. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to ensure the continuation of her bloodline. But...

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards...

On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family’s Black maid. This promise will divide the family—especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt....

A witty and enduring comedy about growing up, family, and the search for romance among Britain’s eccentric upper classes. Told through the eyes of cousin Fanny, the novel introduces the unconventional Radlett family and their chaotic life at the Alconleigh estate. At its heart...

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, supportive mother she never had to her new baby Violet. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe doesn't find the connection with her daughter she expected. She's convinced that something is...

A powerful curse forces the exiled Queen of Faerie to choose between ambition and humanity in this highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over...

Families, sometimes they're a bloody nightmare... Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party,...

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the...

Inspired by true events, The Rarest Fruit tells the remarkable story of resilience, curiosity, and the hidden origins of a flavor cherished around the world. Born enslaved, orphaned young, and raised by a devoted botanist on Réunion Island, Edmond Albius grows up with an...

A stunning edition featuring French flaps and silver foiled cover effects. Come to the empire of Orrun, where twenty-four years of peace have ended with the death of Bersun the Brusque. In the sweltering heat of midsummer, seven extraordinary contenders, warriors, thinkers, and tacticians,...

First things first, stay calm.Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric...

The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. Unable to speak aloud, Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct his thoughts, letter by letter. The result is a book that answers the questions so many have wanted to ask but never knew...

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the...

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career...

To step inside the palace is to enter a world paved with secrets—and stained with blood. Joseon Korea, 1758. Opportunities for an illegitimate daughter are scarce, yet eighteen-year-old Hyeon has carved out a quiet place for herself as a palace nurse. She wants nothing...

A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.Two hundred years later, the Red Queen’s ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed...

This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to...

After moving from Istanbul to Salerno, Italy, Dilara finds herself trapped in a life of routine, caring for her aging father and her anxious husband while struggling to build a future of her own. Hoping that renovating a second bathroom will bring a sense...

The Song of the Safina For generations, the crew of the Safina have devoted their lives to a mission they will never see completed. Halfway through a four-hundred-year journey from a ruined Earth to a distant colony world, the vast generation ship carries two...

Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book 3 After narrowly surviving their high-seas misadventures, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen are back. When a powerful bondmage offers them a chance to erase Locke’s looming death, they accept the job: rig an election in the city of Karthain, a...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them...Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,”...

The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Return Of The King includes the complete appendices and index for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient...

German writer W. G. Sebald blends travel writing, memoir, history, and meditation into a quietly mesmerizing narrative. Accompanied by a curious archive of photographs, the book follows a solitary walking tour along the eastern coast of England. As the narrator travels through the landscape—both observing...

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the...

Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross lives a life as vast and unpredictable as the century itself. From the green fields of County Cork to the battlefields of Waterloo, from the quiet farms of Massachusetts to the teeming ports of Zanzibar, his journey spans continents...

A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a...

Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world - to them, adult life is illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental. When Noboru's widowed mother is romanced by Ryuji, a sailor, Noboru is thrilled....

Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630...

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound...

Mysterious and utterly mesmerizing, this graphic-novel-within-a-novel pairs the extraordinary prose of David Almond with the visual genius of Dave McKean.Blue Baker is writing a story — not all that stuff about wizards and fairies and happily ever after — a real story, about blood...

At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...

Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with...

Book 1. Sophie is certain she’s destined for the School for Good. With her glass slippers, kind heart, and unwavering belief in happily-ever-afters, she expects to follow in the footsteps of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Agatha, on the other hand—clad in black, trailed...

In this luminous and deeply reflective novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who returns to the seaside town of his childhood in the wake of his wife’s death. Seeking solace, Max finds himself drawn back not just to the...

The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of...

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2. After a summer of battling monsters and averting war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson is hoping for a quiet seventh-grade year. His biggest challenge? A towering, awkward new friend named Tyson—who’s more than he seems. But...

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up....