Christmas Day, 1941.As survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor arrive by boat in San Francisco, they bring with them the devastating reality of war.In a city gripped by fear, suspicion and a thirst for revenge, six lives become intertwined: a traumatised survivor, a grieving widow, a Japanese spy, a professor drawn into espionage, a Japanese-American family, and the general whose orders will send them – and thousands more – to internment camps.Caught in a web of rom...

Can a love born in war survive the peace? A war-time romance, long-held secrets and a suspicious death disturb life in a quiet corner of rural America. And when the secrets are revealed, the pull of the past proves that belonging is more than just where one lives.When her American husband is found dead in a seemingly accidental drowning, Caroline writes home and asks her young cousin Elizabeth to join her. After Elizabeth arrives, Caroline is forced to reveal a secret she has held ...

It’s 1969.Stephen's plans to attend Harvard Law School are derailed by the Vietnam War draft lottery. Faced with the prospect of being sent to fight in Southeast Asia, he evades military service by fleeing to California.Arrested at an anti-war protest, Stephen flees again, this time to a commune in northern California. There, he falls in love with Sharon, the leader of an underground radical group. Under Sharon’s influence, Stephen plants a bomb that accidentally claims a l...

This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up this emerging field of literary history to nineteenth-century India. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition, and the writing of literary history itself. A central premise of the book is that when European literary cultures arrived in India, they came into contact with popular performance forms and...

As the British Raj begins its expansion towards Tibet, the remote Apatani valley on the Indo-Tibetan border becomes a flashpoint. George Taylor, an up-and-coming officer in the Indian Civil Service, leads the first expedition into the valley and recommends settingup a base nearby, as the Apatanis are a ‘friendly tribe’. During the expedition, a tenuous bond is established between him and Gyati,the Apatani shaman who has long been anxious about the halyang outsiders creeping c...

Cairo, 2010. As the vast city swelters in the summer heatwave, anti-government protesters take to the streets.When visiting businessman Geoff Ward is kidnapped, his client Khaled and Khaled’s sister, Layla, a prominent activist, set out to find the Englishman. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Geoff’s wife, Angie, frustrated by her feelings of helplessness and the government’s apparent ineffectiveness, contacts an old family friend, Shimon, to ask for help.Who has taken Geoff and ...

What would you do if someone else’s secret past threatened to destroy your own future happiness?For the first time in months Emily is excited about life, until a fun-filled weekend on Dartmoor with her children turns into a nightmare and she accidentally finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. She returns home, desperate to forget their frightening ordeal, but it soon transpires that someone else has other ideas. Before she knows it, she is emb...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Robert Rotstein, A True Verdict is an edge-of-your-seat legal thriller filled with secrets.MediMiracle Corporation manufactures Sophrosyne, a miracle cure for opiate addiction. Ellison Ricard, a research analyst for the company, claims to have uncovered data that proves Black users of Sophrosyne experience fatal side effects far more often than people of other races. When Ricard confron...

'A total page-turner about ambition, desire and dark desperation. I couldn't stop reading' B. P. WalterA good deed can be deadlyHannah Barker's actions undeniably saved the life of nine-year-old Sofia Arpels. Sofia's mother, Alina, has everything she could ever dream of and declares herself forever in Hannah's debt. Anything that Hannah wants, is hers. Alina has the wealth, power and status to grant any wish.There are many things that Hannah desir...

A young girl's tragic loss will shape her dreams and her future…1930 - Douro Valley, PortugalTwelve-year-old Catherine is watching the Rabalo race in Porto when the sound of a shot being fired changes her life forever.Her beloved mother, mistress for some years to Walter Shellard, a Bristol based wine and port merchant has received distressing news that her lover, Walter, has married a wealthy heiress. In her anguish she takes her o...

This summer doesn't just unearth the past, it threatens to unravel Sabrina's life completely.Her alcoholic father is dying, she's estranged from her family, and she's only surviving motherhood thanks to bottomless cups of coffee and secret cigarettes. After years of trying to avoid her issues, she finally comes face-to-face with them on a reluctant journey back to Seaside, Massachusetts. And this time—she doesn't run away.But returning home sends Sabrina sp...

It’s 1911 and, against her mother’s wishes, quiet New Yorker Emma dreams of winning the right to vote. She is sent away by her parents in the hope distance will curb her desire to be involved with the growing suffrage movement and told to spend time learning about where her grandparents came from.Across the Atlantic – Queenstown, southern Ireland – hotelier Thomas dreams of being loved, even noticed, by his actress wife, Alice. On their wedding day, Alice’s father had assured him t...