Browsing: Great Britain

17th Century

The Year of Lear

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Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that…

Christian Fiction

Paradise Lost

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Milton’s great seventeenth-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by…

Classics

One Corpse Too Many

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With over 4,300 five-star Goodreads ratings: When a strangled man is found cleverly hidden among the bodies of executed traitors, Brother Cadfael vows to investigate… A “delightful” read with a “colorful and authentic medieval background” (Publishers Weekly).

Bestsellers

The Bone Clocks

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A New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year: A teenager with strange powers becomes unwittingly entangled in a mysterious conflict that touches lives across the world. A “genre-bending marvel of a novel” (O, the Oprah Magazine) from “one of the most electric writers alive” (The Boston Globe).

All-Time Bestseller

Perfume

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An international bestseller hailed as “a fable of criminal genius… remarkable” (The New York Times): Jean-Baptiste’s uncanny sense of smell leads him on a depraved, obsessive quest to create the perfect perfume from the scent of a young virgin…