Browsing: Great Britain

A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of…

A New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year: As decades pass, guests at the mysterious Slade House are pulled into a strange and unpredictable world. “Wildly inventive… Wonderfully human” (Gillian Flynn).

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen’s writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious…

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and…

Four very different women — enthusiastic Ashling, wealthy Taylor, straitlaced Felicity, and ambitious Jazz — find their worlds upended and their lives unexpectedly intertwined when they each arrive to spend a year in dazzling Paris.

Young Jonathan Clyde causes mischief for everyone at Whitehall, the stately home of his privileged ancestors. As he matures, however,…

When Jane Bennet’s illness at Netherfield ends up not being just a trifling cold, but an epidemic that sweeps through…

“Harry Dresden would like Alex Verus tremendously” (Jim Butcher): Alex runs a magic shop in London and is gifted with the power of foresight. So when he’s tasked with opening an ancient relic, he’s fairly certain his chances of surviving whatever lies inside are slim…

In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior.…

From a New York Times bestselling author called “the new Dickens” (Malcolm Gladwell): Wealthy John Stone dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving his lovely widow and an eager reporter to investigate a conspiracy spanning decades. “The pages will fly by” (Publishers Weekly).