An exquisitely written historical epic, Anne Enright's third novel is based on the true story of the beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch, who, in the 1860s, became, briefly, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris, with Eliza in bed...
The chronicle of the heroism of the Soviet people includes the immortal feat of the Tatar Soviet poet Musa Jalil, a native of the village of Mustafino in the Sharlyk district of the Orenburg (Chkalov) region, who was seriously wounded and captured...
'A masterful debut' – Ellen Alpsten, author of Tsarina
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land …
… Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. One summer night, all that came abruptly to an end when her father and...
Though a first-person story, The Rascally Romance, nonetheless, is not a swaggering report on Me, Myself and The Number One. No, I’m not up for narcistic self-portraits. What? This mean and stupid rascal me? Alas, but not, ‘tis gone, ‘tis...
The last in the bestselling trilogy – the drama of a grand duchess and the peasant who determines her fate
As the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra rushes toward catastrophe, the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta is ensconced in the lavish and magnificent...
A book for your head and your heart.
A powerful novel from one of Ireland’s best writers on the turbulent birth of a nation, and the lovers it divides.
Ireland 1945. Young and beautiful, Iz begins a life on the south-east...
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New...