đź“ś Where past meets powerful storytelling.
Richly detailed and vividly imagined, these novels bring bygone eras to life—illuminating the people, events, and moments that shaped the world.
Can a girl come from nothing and rise to the heart of the Tudor court?Ten-year-old Bess possesses a glorious voice, but in a world of poverty and hardship, singing is nothing more than a frivolous luxury. When her father sells her to the king of England, she leaves...
Murder and mysteries await two nurses caring for child evacuees during World War II in this suspenseful Agatha Award–winning historical mystery.“Irresistible. . . . A Golden Age homage, an elegantly constructed mystery that on every page reinforces the message that...
A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At...
A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought...
"The writing in this book is lyrical . . . a beautiful book that you will love.” -Good Morning America's #1 Favorite Book of the Year"I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams." -Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake"Made me laugh out loud and...
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York...
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club“Sophisticated and...
In an “intricately satisfying story about love and deception,” an old woman shares her childhood with a troubled teen and uncovers a decades-old mystery (Kirkus Reviews).Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth’s eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her...
The internationally bestselling, “gorgeously moving, old-fashioned novel” about a woman’s life, loves, and self-discovery on the eve the Great War (O, The Oprah Magazine).  Grania O’Neill, the daughter of hardworking Irish hoteliers in small-town Ontario, is five...
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck...