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The sequel to "Across the Nightingale Floor" follows the separate fates of young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, as they fight for survival in a violent time of war, famine and tr

Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin.

In the Irish Country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls are generally perceived to have it all.

Travelling with his elderly mother to England, Peter Calder reflects on his childhood, growing up in New Zealand and being Pakeha despite being brought up in a very English way.

Riding the Bus With my Sister chronicles the amazing year Rachel spent riding the buses with Beth, her mentally retarded sister.

It wasn't until he was in his early twenties that doctors discovered that Jim Knipfel's nearsightedness was the result of an untreatable rare genetic eye disease known as retinitis pigmen

Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds of the forest?

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncover

It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee.

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an o

In the sultry summer of 1936, the lives of these men converged around a bad-legged, floundering racehorse named Seabiscuit.

Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her.

In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair betw

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' is a beautifully written first novel that addresses the meaning of life - and life after death.

A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann Holmes, is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent.