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On Beauty
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster's HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different British families: the arch conservatives Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal Belseys. Both men are art professors teaching at a college in Massachusetts where the two wives, unexpectedly, become close friends. Kiki ...
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Lord John and the Private Matter
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Diana Gabaldon
In this historical novel Lord John Grey is shocked to discover that the man engaged to his beloved niece might have an incurable venereal disease. While investigating the man's past, Lord John is also called upon by the crown to investigate the murder of a soldier who may have been a spy. The character of Lord John Grey first appeared in Diana ...
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
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Sophie Kinsella
In this all-too-true debut novel, Kinsella chronicles one woman's hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping. The author has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a tale of our times and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens.
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Cocktails for Three
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Madeleine Wickham
Three good friends meet once a year for cocktails. But suddenly, when inconvenient old secrets surface, their friendship wobbles, and things will never be the same.
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of ...
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London
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Edward Rutherfurd
A novel that spans 2000 years and revolves around the fates of seven families who have had a vital impact on London over the centuries--from third-century Londinium to today's international capital.
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Thunderstruck
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Erik Larson
The bestselling author of "The Devil in the White City" tells the amazing, interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a doctor and an unlikely murderer, and Gugliemo Marconi, the obsessive genius who invented the wireless--whose stories converge during the greatest criminal chase of all time.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
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Susanna Clarke
Both the publisher and critics have attempted to pigeonhole this charming fantasy, winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for best novel and a New York Times Notable Book for 2004, as "Harry Potter for Adults." However, their only point of similarity is that both books feature British magicians. Set in an alternate early 19th-century England and written in ...
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Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses ...
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Neverwhere
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Neil Gaiman (Read by)
When businessman Richard Mayhew tries to help a young homeless girl one evening, she pulls him into "London Below," a magical world where those who have slipped through society's cracks live in sewers and abandoned tunnels.
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Bookends
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Jane Green
In this idyllic tale that takes up the lives of three college chums 10 years after graduation. Josh is happily married to Lucy, Cath is unmarried and overweight but contented and successful, and Si is Cath's happily gay best friend. When Cath and Lucy decide to open a cute little bookstore/café, they encounter a realtor/painter named James who ...
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Romancing Mister Bridgerton
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Julia Quinn
Secretly adoring her best friend's brother from afar, Penelope Featherington feels she knows everything about Colin Bridgerton, called "the most charming man in London" by gossip columnist Lady Whistledown. But when she stumbles upon Colin's deepest secret, she fears she doesn't know him at all.
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Little Princess
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
A LITTLE PRINCESS is the timeless classic about Sara Crewe, daughter of a wealthy father, who is brought from India to a boarding school in England. There, due to her father's wealth, she is treated like royalty--until her father suddenly dies, and she is left penniless. She is soon treated like a scullery maid, and forced to live in a cold garret ...
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Scandal in Spring
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Lisa Kleypas
In this lush conclusion to her seasonal series, "New York Times" bestselling author Lisa Kleypas takes readers back to Victorian London, where after spending three seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowman, the sole "Wallflower" yet to be married, finally meets her match. Original.
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The Witch of Portobello
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Paulo Coelho
The stunning new novel from the author of "The Alchemist" chronicles the life of Athena, as told by the many people who had known her well or hardly at all. Like Coelhos previous novels, this is the kind of story that can transform the way readers think about love and sacrifice.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of ...
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The River Knows
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Amanda Quick
Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Amanda Quick, offers a new Arcane Society novel--a tale filled with dark secrets set amid the luxurious settings of late-Victorian London, where a young woman has been forced to fake her own suicide and discovers her own thrilling attraction to danger.
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Rick Steves' London
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Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
With detailed information on the British Museum, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, and the Tower of London, Steves also shows travelers how to find the best sights and activities, friendly places to eat and sleep, suggested day plans and itineraries mixing famous sights with little-known discoveries.
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Unexpected Blessings
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Barbara Taylor Bradford
The latest blockbuster delves into the lives of Emma Harte--the original"Woman of Substance"--and the ambitious, passionate, and volatile women of the next generations whose loyalty binds them together while enemies want to tear them apart. Reissue.
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End of the Affair
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene's 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies, and Maurice comes into possession of her journal, which provides an explanation that is hardly less perplexing to him ...
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
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Diana Gabaldon
In her much-anticipated new novel, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Outlander saga brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John Grey's secret and public lives--a shattering family mystery, a potentially disastrous love affair, and a war that spans continents.
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The Kiss
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Danielle Steel
A wealthy Parisian woman and a powerful American man, both trapped in loveless marriages, find solace in one another through a long-distance relationship. Then a freak accident exposes their illicit friendship and threatens everything that each holds dear.
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How to Be Good
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Nick Hornby
In his fourth novel, Nick Hornby writes about a doctor named Katie Carr whose difficult husband, David, known as the "Angriest Man in Holloway," writes a newspaper column. Katie has had enough. But then David falls into the hands of a do-gooder mystic and becomes, suddenly, a caring, earnest person--and Katie begins to question her own life. HOW ...
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Tooth and Nail
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Ian Rankin
Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent to help London police cath a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop, Rebus lets a psychologist into the case and develops a bizarre portrait of a vicious killer. Now it's only question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules--or ...
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The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery
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Philip Pullman
A mysterious death at sea, a beautiful orphan, a priceless ruby, and the opium trade come together in this mystery set in 19th-century London. When 16-year-old orphan Sally Lockhart receives a strange and confusing message postmarked from Singapore, she is sure it is somehow tied to the death of her father. Determined to discover what really ...
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