The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. . For more options...

In a cramped synagogue in north-west London, the eminent elderly rabbi --Rav Krushka --passes away. On the other side of the Atlantic, his estranged daughter Ronit now living in New York hears of her father's death and returns to London to look up old friends and, perhaps, settle old scores. For more options...

When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action. For more options...

First published in 1939, the novel evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of various individuals whose lives are about to be ruined. For more options...

A slave secretly swaps her son for her master's son. The two boys live in a quiet Missouri town until one goes to university. For more options...

A man. A woman. For more options...

This humorous contemporary romance is a revised release of a 1991 novel written prior to the author's bestselling Stephanie Plum mystery series. Daisy is juggling several jobs plus graduate school in the hope that she can feed herself and her little brother, pay the rent, keep gas in the car, and finish her dissertation. For more options...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER David Mitchell's novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. For more options...

One day, as Elmer is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly has been trapped in a hole by a fallen branch. For more options...

The daughter of well-to-do tradespeople in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a travelling theatre group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio. For more options...

From the bestselling author of LABYRINTH and SEPULCHRE - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. Illustrated throughout by Brian Gallagher. For more options...

"A poignant coming-of-age story and an enchanting primer on the life aquatic. "The Highest Tide" is as crisp and clean as a cool dip into the water, and just about as refreshing.--"Entertainment Weekly" One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley sneaks out of his house and goes exploring on the tidal flats of Puget Sound. For more options...