From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.

Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...

Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt is a gripping historical novel about Holland set in the seventeenth century and the birth of Delft Blue. The creative Catrin, born in de rural area around Alkmaar, gets a housekeeping job in Amsterdam, the place to be during the age of Rembrandt. When she is forced to leave the city she is able to find a job in Delft, where she witnesses the birth of Delftware and meets the famous painter Johannes Vermeer. Unfortunately her newly found happiness ends with...

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In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued inDragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel.

VOYAGER

Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever ...