Wanda McCaddon

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God's Time
A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First...

Now a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara
An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In The Secret Scripture, Barry revisits County Sligo, Ireland, the setting for...

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to detail, and a knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people.

Step into the charming world of "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. This delightful novel invites you to a quaint English village, where the lives of its eccentric and endearing inhabitants are interwoven in a tapestry of humor, heartwarming moments, and social observations. Set in the early 19th century, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, an outsider welcomed into the close-knit community. As she navigates the idiosyncrasies...

Baron Herbert returns from the Crusades and falls into a deep melancholy. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, people begin to wonder if the baron has been cursed by God. Herbert asks his friend Sir Hugh of Wynethorpe to bring him spiritual and secular healers, so Sir Hugh invites his sister, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal Priory, and a respected physician named Master Gamel to the baron's castle. The prioress brings along her healer, Sister...

At the small priory of Tyndal on the remote East Anglian coast, the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud hope for peaceful days ahead now that Simon de Montfort has been defeated. When the young and inexperienced Eleanor of Wynethorpe is appointed as their new prioress, she faces extreme opposition from the other members of the priory. Things get even more complicated when a monk is murdered and Brother Thomas, a young priest with a troubled...

In 1272 on the east English coastline, monastery prioress Eleanor of Wynethorpe delves into the murder of a deceitful member of a local village to stop a mob from unjustly convicting a homeless Jewish man.

In the gentle world of one of England's beautiful old cathedral towns, crisis looms: funds are short, and the cathedral is in need of major repair. One faction of the community argues that the obvious solution is to abolish the expensive, and nowadays rather irrelevant, boys' choir. But of course, there are those who disagree: the choir school's headmaster, a conscientious scholar somewhat out of his depth with his elusive, poetical wife; the cathedral...

Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha has not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream while surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more...Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective...

The real-life inspiration and setting for the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon.

Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has

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