A tale of love, loneliness, and the mysteries of an English mansion reaches back to the gothic novels of the past.

In honor of the centenary of Elizabeth Taylor's birth, two novels that showcase the author's gift for crafting comedies of manners with troubling undertones.

The final volume in the author's celebrated Patrick Melrose cycle faces pain with wit and unflinching honesty.

The story of a professional kidnapper's life takes on a surreal edge in the appropriately nightmarish world of North Korea.

Courage and slaughter, dreams and betrayals, in the shadow of Little Bighorn.

Patrick deWitt's blackly comic western outdraws the competition.

The career of a legendary scholar, historian, and "academic pugilist."

Historical fiction set during the Napoleonic Wars.

The complicated man behind the literary myth.

A new collection revives the voice of the most trenchant cultural critics of the twentieth century.

How sugared fish begat the ice cream sundae.

A talented shortstop's story enacts a familiar literary baseball myth.

The inhabitants of a small English town respond to a shocking crime.

Settlers in the twilight of imperialist Africa, from the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.

An Italian villa and a haunting sculpture are at the center of a true story of wealth, obsession, and scandal.

A team of Swedish police traces a murder to a secret society—but that's just the beginning.

A near-future thriller by the author of Drood follows the trail of a murder through a drug that lets users relive the past.

Jakob Arjouni’s Turkish-German private eye Kemal Kayankaya walks the mean streets of Frankfurt with a flair worthy of Bogart.

Rediscovering a majestic, sardonic portrait of the nation's capital, half finished and plunged into war.

One of the Wild West's most mythic figures,  imagined into life again.

An American family gets pulled into the maelstrom of Nazi terror. 

Englishness meets the modern markets in the latest from a novelist whose works are marvels of comedy and intellectual depth.

When a Korean matriarch goes missing her family is turned upside down.