An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels,  from the authors of the forthcoming  Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History  (March 2018) Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all nove...

Millie Yardley has never fit the mold. Older than her newly married sister, curvier than society deems fashionable, and perfectly aware that no one expects her to do much beyond fade quietly into spinsterhood, Millie decides to try something new. When she accepts the position of lady’s companion ...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls , was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was...

"The heartrending story of a two people, a marriage, and a century from the author of A Suitable Boy . . . . “[A] thoughtful, evocative, moving book.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Two Lives  is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Aus...

A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance from the author of  The Duke Undone .   Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of becoming a duchess. But family disgrace forces her into marriage with the most vile duke ...

In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick, Georgia and enmeshed in a perplexing murder case at the very exclusive Jekyl Island Club. Now retired, the self...

“Just when you think there can be nothing fresh to be said about the long life of Winston Churchill, along comes biographer Michael Shelden’s page-turner about Churchill from age twenty-six to forty” ( The Washington Times ). Between his rise and his fall, young Winston Churchill built a mod...

At once poignant and humorous, this deliciously devised novel lights on the marriage of Flora and Simon Beaufort just at the moment it goes haplessly awry -- the moment that Simon succumbs to the temptation of his cool, blond accountant and Flora heeds the cry of her reawakened faith. Ultimately, th...

"There’s a body in my bed. A dead body." The call from a friend staying at Sherman’s newest – okay, only – B&B starts Elizabeth Margaret “E.M.” Danniher on a twisting, turning journey where appearances not only deceive, they turn deadly. When her TV reporter friend Wardell Yardley come...

Discover the lost supernatural stories behind some of the most famous people and events in history. These Fantastic Tales explore the secret history that has been hidden in the shadows of the world, and even alternative histories from other worlds. Tales such as a young man seeking the secret of i...

A novel about first loves, last loves, second chances—and all of life's messiness in between.Newly widowed at the start of the new millennium, novelist Olivia Hammond is at loose ends—until an unexpected discovery resurfaces a long-ago secret and makes her question the story she thought she knew...

"Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." -- The Washington Post An intelligent examination of alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path, from Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively In th...

The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny...

Two hearts clash in a dance of pride and passion. Can a reluctant Duke and a determined beauty find love where they least expect it? Along with her triplet sisters, Lady Beaujolais Winslow is a celebrated beauty, but after five seasons she has yet to find a match she finds tolerable. Since her fat...

“ The Lonely Crowd . . . remains not only the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large.”—Orlando Patterson, New York Times   “As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd is indisp...

It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling -en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of...

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and c...

When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn. ...

"Stunningly original. . . . Pulpy and juicy, full of wisdom and horror." ― Los Angeles Times Book Review Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero―Lord Horatio Nelson―he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nels...

"Fine stuff...[ The Letter of Marque ] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels."―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephe...