Birders

“Cocker offers a combined celebration of and apologia for the national passion for birding, which in Britain provides both the thrill of high competition and the bonding of a cult….

By the Grand Canal

An exquisite novel redolent of Venice and the haze of World War I by the author of the award-winning Kate Caterina…

1989

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become…

The Arch of Desire

“[A] delicious, bold and genuinely immoral book, or perhaps rather a treatise in favor of hedonism and the pleasures of desire.” –A. Castro, El Periodico…

Bankei Zen

Annabel

Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s….

Captain in Calico

From the author of the famous Flashman series, a standalone adventure novel about a fearless pirate in the eighteenth-century British West Indies.

The Lincoln Miracle

The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history—Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential election

Crack Down and Clean Break

“Crime writing of the very highest order . . . Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around.” —The Times (U.K.)…

Death of a River Guide

“A triumphant tour de force, and a novel that succeeds brilliantly in its audacious design and offers the smart reader complex and memorable rewards.” –Philip Gerard, The Raleigh News and…