In this 2013 National Jewish Book Award Finalist, an eczema-riddled Lower East Side haberdasher, Isaac Markowitz, moves to Israel to repair  his broken heart and becomes, much to his own surprise, the assistant to a famous old rabbi who...

The rambling lakeside house called Pinecrest has lain empty since its last owner went missing seven years ago. But for the Brewster family it will be this year’s holiday retreat, and for the kids Eric and Marci it’s the...

This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or...

The past catches up with a mobster who has tried to go clean. When the head of an organized crime gang who had become a respectable businessman is found dead by shotgun in his home, the police force know...

Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship nearby, she risks everything in an act of bravery that...

Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is...

This book tells the dark story of a beautiful young woman and her little son who live in a cottage on the edge of a forest in rural Ireland and are murdered by a deranged killer who has become...

A woman with no past. A man who seems to know her. And a monstrous garden that could be the border between their worlds… Italy, 1948 Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can’t remember...

‘It has been almost fifteen years. I’ve thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.’ Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past....

Iris Bagshott strolls down the paths of her ancient garden, close to Lichfield in the heart of England, wondering if it is time to sell her house and land for development. She is unaware that around every corner myriad...