“Long Time Coming”
In Antwerp in 1939, a Jewish diamond trader flees Nazi Europe, leaving his priceless collection of Picasso paintings and diamonds with a friend who takes them to London. The boat he flees on sinks, leaving no survivors. Fast forward to 1976 when his penniless family tries to track down the missing paintings. A classic thriller […]
“Love’s Tender Warriors”
Drew Clark, ex-Marine and martial arts master, is the new instructor at the Golden Tiger dojang. Intense and aloof, she hides dark secrets and unhealed wounds beneath her warrior’s exterior. Sean Gray is the young psychologist and senior student who threatens to bring down the barriers Drew has erected around her heart. Battle hardened and […]
“Manana Manana. One Mallorcan Summer”
Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rual Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and his family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little farm, Ca´s Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations, and triumps of their initation. Spain has not yet finished with them. Embarrasing subtleties of […]
“Metro 2034”
The basis of three bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus. The much-anticipated sequel to the million-copy selling cult international hit. In the ruins of the apocalypse mankind fights for survival in the Moscow Metro.
“Mission to China. Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East”
In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls […]
“Mister Teacher”
It’s 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk – one makes him smile, one makes him sad and one is destined to change his life forever. This is from nine-year-old Sebastian, suffering from leukaemia in the […]
“My place in the Bazaar”
Novels: London 1919-1926 A Stranger; An Unfinished Story World Tour 1926-1927 The Making of a Matron; The Last Chukka; “Tahiti Waits” England 1932-1939 A Pretty Case for Freud; Bien Sur; A Luckless Lebanese Travel Years 1946-1952 The Woman Who knew Frank Harris; A Bunch of Beachcombers; The Wicked Baronet; Circle of Deception. Bloombury reader
“New Moon”
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. “Shoot,” I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. “No!” Edward roared… Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood […]
“On Beauty”
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low […]
“One Night in Winter”
What would you do if your children were forced to testify against you? Moscow, 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory, a teenage boy and girl lie dead nearby. But these are no ordinary teenagers; they are the children of Russia´s highest leaders. Is it murder, suicide or conspiracy? So begins a terrifying witch-hunt […]
“Oranges are not the only fruit”
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God’s elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young […]
“Out”
“Strange that she’d never known she had such cruelty inside”. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to […]
“Patty Jane’s House of Curl”
Patty Jane Dobbin should have known better than to marry a man as gorgeous as Thor Rolvaag, but she was too smitten to think twice. Yet nine months into their marriage, with a baby on the way, Thor is gone. It’s a good thing Patty Jane has her irrepressible sister, Harriet, to rely on. For […]
“Plain truth”
The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes […]
“Pope Joan”
A Novel “Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama—love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In this international bestseller and basis for the 2009 movie of the same name, Donna Woolfolk Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all […]
“Prelude to Foundation”
The Foundation novels This daring story of humanity´s future introduces one of great masterworks of science fiction: the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, bold ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of people to save civilization from a relentless tide of darkness […]
“Priceless”
Charlie Daniels started her career as a streetwalker when she was a seventeen-year-old single mother. Since she had virtually no qualifications, the streets seemed to offer the best way to get a comfortable and exciting life. Eventually she was forced to hand her over daughter to her own foster mother, just as she herself was […]
“Red Sorghum”
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander […]
“Retribution”
Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galatic community of alien species. But beyond the fringers of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on “harvesting” the galaxy´s organic species for their own dark purpose. The Illusive Man, leader fo the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the […]
“Revelation”
Every advanced society in the galaxy relies on the technology of the Protheans, an ancient species that vanished fifty thousand years ago. After discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity is spreading to the stars, the newest inter-stellar species struggling to carve out its place in the greater galactic community. On […]
