Vintage

*; Pride and Prejudice was only half the story *; If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she&'d most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the...

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, &';plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.&' Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba &';accident,&' might be the stiff of Jack&'s dreamsif only...

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption...

A chilling, classically-inspired ghost story from Susan Hill, our reigning mistress of spine-tingling fiction. For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has journeyed all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pioneering traveler Conrad Vane. In an effort to learn more about Vane's early lifeand his ownSir James sets off for...

"e;The great virtue ofRoyal Highnessis its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual, legitimacy, even the political...

Book Two of the Fourth Realm TrilogyA fearless heroine.... A tale of brother against brother.... A battle for hope and freedom.Two brothers born into a race of Travelersprophets able to journey to different realms of consciousnesshave just discovered that their long lost father may still be alive. Gabriel, who could be humanity's savior, and...