THE CHILD IN TIME begins on a Saturday morning when Stephen Lewis and his 3-year-old daughter, Kate, go to the supermarket. As they wait in line, she is kidnapped -suddenly, inexplicably, without warning. The novel explores the effect...

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his 'heart's darling,' the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and t...

When Elizabeth Bennett marries the brooding, passionate Mr. Darcy, she is thrown into the exciting world of London society. She makes a powerful friend in the Marchioness of Englebury but the jealousy among her ladyship's circle threa...

BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard,...

Roz and Paul Mellow become famous when, in 1975, they write a sex manual and illustrate it with pictures of themselves making love. But everything goes downhill afterwards, particularly the lives of their four grossed-out children. Me...

In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris’s story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obses...

The first mistake Dead: one ordinary man. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the worst time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux back from his leave of absence in Toussai...

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 book MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides is a contemporary master of the novel form, and this expertise and creative fluency come to bear on THE MARRIAGE PLOT. At once stunningly constructed and ...

In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not...

A group of delightfully eccentric women, who have a penchant for casting spells, find their peaceful world turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who, they believe, is connected to the disappearance of two young bo...

Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activ...

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.When Aaron Maciver’s beautif...

"The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set one a mysterious island, "The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where every detail is both crystal clear an...

Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released. A fascinating piece of American literary history and a remarkable window into the personal lives ...

A little girl named Celia Brooks inexplicably disappears on an ordinary day in March. Four years later, her parents and neighbors gather for a memorial service. Told in a series of stories, this novel is narrated partly by a man with ...

In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the ins...

A fifty-year epic follows the lives of the residents of the Greek island Cephallonia, exploring their peaceful, remote experiences before the onset of the Second World War. (A Working Title Films presentation entitled Captain Corelli'...

Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her own happiness and plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign...

Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Ericasadora are the perfect literary an...

[T]he sense of doom inexorably working itself out is simultaneously distasteful, logical, and dramatically just....We've been here before....But Oates has achieved memorable successes in the short-novel form, and, on balance, this is ...

James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series The Bear Boy, has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy as she pursues her own desires, in...

Following the tragic loss of her husband, Gina Melrose, a young widow, finds her life further thrown into turmoil when her refuge and her period of grieving are invaded by a woman named Reese, Gina's late husband's former wife, and by...

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working...

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finall...

For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she neve...

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unav...

A group of teenagers in 1970's Birmingham come of age to the tune of the music with which they are obsessed--along with IRA threats, labor strikes, and other aspects of working-class life in England. A New York Times Notable Book for ...

For the narrator locked inside an ancient prison, waiting for death, life is full of magic, from the golden horses that stampede underground to the tiny men who hammer away inside the stone walls. That the enchanted place is a death r...

A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber's second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devot...

The book is a comedy...and sometimes a farce, but it is also Mr. Greene's De Senectute, turned upon age and death....Turned toward death, the book implies, one longs for a way of life free from the venom of morality, grim death thwart...