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In her hugely acclaimed debut Anne Donovan tells an endearing, humorous yet unsentimental story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers ... More

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Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is ... More

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'In the olive grove you've got to be wise in the feet and wild in the head.' At the heart of the beautiful debut novel "The Roots of the Olive Tree" ... More

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This stunning debut novel--drawn from the author's own life experience--tells the moving story of a family of 11 in the American Midwest, bound ... More

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Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan, telling him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles ... More

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But when Janey learns that the call is from a hospital all the way in Phoenix, Arizona, and a social worker is telling her that her father-in-law is ... More

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In an audacious literary experiment, Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhood, of growing up, of ... More

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It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the ... More

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""Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he ... More

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A sixteen-year-old girl, mother to a younger sister and brother, longs to be beautiful, and thus happy, until she meets a playground counselor who ... More

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"Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting. . . . Cancel those dinner plans--you'll want to keep reading."--Joanna Powell, People

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Anna Kavan is now regarded as one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. An early novel, A Charmed Circle foreshadows her later ... More

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" Can you ever mend a shattered friendship? " From Rowan Coleman, author of the acclaimed bestseller "The Accidental Mother," comes a deeply moving ... More

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When Sander Weir leaves everything to Morag, the girl he and his wife raised as their own daughter, his brother Lawrence feels that he has been ... More

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At forty - nine, Celeste has long renounced the religion of her childhood. Yet she finds herself reluctantly accompanying her mother and sister to a ... More

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As Elsie grows from childhood to girlhood, so does her understanding of and obedience to God. Guided by jealousy and contempt, her father seeks to ... More

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Children born on Sunday are said to have special gifts of clairvoyance, including the ability to see goblins and ghosts and to foretell the future. ... More

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Some families are like a car wreck: two die, one is paralyzed, another walks away.Twenty years ago Jay Aubuchon had a front-row seat to her mother's ... More

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A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting debut novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family--from an award-winning young writer with superb ... More

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In 1920s, after her father's death, Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her carefree days by the side of the Forth and Clyde ... More

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Two estranged sisters team up to enter a national bake-off in the hopes of winning some serious cash. Armed with the top-secret recipe for Grammy's ... More

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