Like the new novel by the other twice-Booker-winner on this list, this is the third in a trilogy... following Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, both of which are also reissued in hardback a... read more
When a young woman in Renaissance Italy is taken by her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, to a remote villa, she realises he intends to kill her... Richly told, by the author of Hamnet.
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act passed into law in 1660, the first year of the Restoration. In Harris's compelling new novel, two regicides flee to America but are tried and found guilty in ... read more
Who in the UK now remembers Ransmayr's 'The Last World', about Ovid in exile, which was such a bestseller in 1990? He remains a major European literary figure, and his new novel about Aliste... read more
Drawing on the author's own experiences of WW2, the novel's protagonist rebels against the pressures of family and politics in Fascist Italy. First published in 1949. By the author of Forbid... read more
The story of the inimitable Maria Callas - conflicted, disappointed, ambitious and supremely gifted - and of her love affair with Aristotle Onassis - by the author of The Fortune Hunter, My ... read more
Fleeing starvation in the Jameston settlement, a servant girl sets out alone into the wilderness. An historical novel set in early colonial America, by the author of Matrix.
A first historical novel, set in Willesden and Jamaica. Brilliant and funny, of course, not least for its opening in Harrison Ainsworth's collapsing library.
Somerset Maugham appears as one of two narrators in this atmospheric novel of love, truth, secrecy and betrayal in 1920s' colonial Penang. Eng's airy storytelling is a rare gift: he gives hi... read more
A rich historical novel of Jacobean power games - politics and palaces, parliaments and surely poison too? A first novel by the biographer of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
The discovery of a corpse sends Cat Hakesby and James Marwood on a dangerous path that seems to lead to Charles II's favourite courtier... The sixth in this excellent series of historical th... read more
In Regency England, a girl has the gift of predicting the weather. In order to move freely, she disguises herself as a man - which becomes problematic when she falls in love.
Every Christmas needs an escapist book and this year we think this fits the bill - a novel about the three daughters of the first Earl of Iveagh. There is of course the old chestnut that Pr... read more
The indefatigable author of 'Schindler's Ark' picks up here on the story of Dickens's youngest son, who emigrated to Australia to become a sheep farmer.