THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her...

Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne is lured back to the Agency after he discovers that the Protestant gunmen have marked his father-in-law, the American Ambassador to London, for execution. He sets in motion a deadly contest of wits...

David has suffered from OCD for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece...

Pampered Margaret Macy flees her home in London to avoid marrying a dishonorable man. Now, with no money and no place to stay, Margaret does the unthinkable: she takes a job as a housemaid in the home of two brothers--both of whom are...

The famous dancer of the Royal Ballet has been everywhere, she emerges as a charming person, in this, her autobiography.

Lady Olivia Granville is a lovely, headstrong scholar. Anthony Caxton is a pirate. However, he, too is keenly intelligent and independent. When they meet on the high seas, their sparks of passion are as powerful as the wind.

The author of the "sweeping, stirring, and heartrending" (Kristin Harmel, author of The Room on Rue Amélie ) The Light Over London returns with a masterful, glittering novel that whisks you to midcentury Britain as it follows...

American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home. So, with a knapsack on his back, he set out to explore by...

The twelve-year marriage of Henry and Katharine has declined from an idyllic union into an uneasy stalemate. The king's love for his aging queen has grown cold, and he is angry with her failure to give him the heir to the throne he...