Best-selling author Patrick O'Brian became a legend with his beloved Aubrey-Maturin seafaring tales....

Invalided out of the army at the end of the Second World War, Matthew Wallingham wonders what place there is in a new social order for a blind man, even if he is a decorated war hero....

Tom Birkin is a broken man....

A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity....

It is September 8, 1943, and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....

It is September 8, 1943, and Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand....

A runaway best seller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, Sebastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as a latter-day War and Peace....

In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded with his bickering dependants....

The time is the mid-1880s when Florida, south of St. Augustine, is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts....

In Victorian times, an unmarried woman of good breeding didn't have much choice of vocation. Agnes...

All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of the Borders Trilogy, tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers....

From the author of North and South comes this remarkable story, chronicling America during...

Chinua Achebe specializes in retelling the recent history of Africa, especially the encroachment...

Novelist and essayist David Bradley maintains that there is no such thing as The Black Experience...

Edmund White has written several acclaimed novels, including Forgetting Elena and A Boy's Own Story...