A thrilling novel of the West's first journeys to Japan from "a master storyteller" and the acclaimed author of Saigon and Peking ( The Kansas City Star).A fleet of ships billowing black smoke steam past Japan's tributary islands in July 1853, setting off panic among a people who have been sealed off from the rest of the world for over two hundred years. Commodore Matthew Perry has arrived, sent by the US president to o...

This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" ( Financial Times).In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism.But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long M...

An epic saga of love, blood, and destiny in twentieth-century Vietnam: "This superb novel could well be the War and Peace of our age" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon—the capital of French colonial Cochin-China—as a young man on his father's hunting trip in 1925. But the exotic land lures him back again and again as a traveler, soldier, and reporter. He returns because of his fascination for the enchanting city—and for...

This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" (Financial Times).In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism.But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long Ma...

Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades Joseph's life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon's most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the native Trans-a...

Unseelie rogues have invaded the Vale, plaguing the blissful Summer woodland with their magic of frost and decay.Ornella will protect her king, even if she must face the infamous Wild Hunt.The cadre of the Autumn Prince.But she never expected to survive the encounter, much less become a captive of the riders in ghoulish skull helms and armour made from thorn and bone.Now, the Summer dryad is trapped in the Autumn Court with a reluctant warde...

The King of the Vale has returned, but he is accompanied by a fire witch.His intended mate.None despises Amira more than Orion.Tradition requires her to claim Riordan's bond and complete their trio, but Orion's jealousy over their king makes that seem impossible.But despite the animosity in Riordan's court, Amira has found the love and purpose she always craved.And now the Wild Hunt threatens the Vale with war after taking Ornella ca...

Aderyn: Resident playboy, Samson Morgan, thinks he can beat me at my own game.The hockey captain truly believes he can stop playing the field for longer than I can start having one-night stands. Okay, sure, historically I'm known for being an all-in, ask-to-be-your-girlfriend-on-the-first-date romantic. But being a player isn't that hard. And I came to Mendell University to win. Whether that's on the ice or off.Morgan doesn't realize it yet but he's finally...

Babysitting's not a club . . . It's a battlefield.When Anah and Hailee discover that their most recent bounty disappeared along with the rogue of the party, it's time for the gloves to come off.A tracking spell leads them straight into Farrow, a city known as a hub for adventurers...and right to the door of the Temple of Dinna, Goddess of Growth and Change. Their prey is hiding within the walls of the temple, but Anah and Hailee will need an excuse to conduct their search. ...

An anthology of speculative climate fiction and poetry by authors from around the world.Fishing for ghosts. Saving the Agassiz Icefield.A new North strong and sustainable. Robot mermaids with lasers.Teenage solar rogues. Activist archivists.The Queen of the May and the protean Lord of the Sea, struggling to cope with changes large and small.A future West both weird and wild.These greener futures hold all this and more.

From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonizationShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.So...

***THE EBOOK BESTSELLER***Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Dinah Jefferies, Victoria Hislop and Lucy Foley.Two great loves. One shattering betrayal.A war that changes everything.**************'Island in the East is a stunner' Kate Furnivall'Exotic and mysterious - I was gripped' Dinah Jefferies'A moving, stirring love story'