The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Date of Publication: 2007, Warner Books
Number of Pages: 385
Synopsis:
“FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she’s missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At [...]

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

 
 
From the back of the book:
Summer 1924
On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999
Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by [...]

In the Blood - Andrew Motion

PUBLISHERS SUMMARY:
For most people childhood ends slowly, so nobody can see where one part of life finishes and the next bit starts. But my childhood has ended suddenly. In a day.
In the Blood is Andrew Motion’s beautifully delivered memoir of growing-up in post-war England — an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life, and [...]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Date of Publication: 1899Number of Pages: 106
Synopsis:
The Awakening begins at a crisis point in twenty-eight year-old Edna Pontellier’s life. Edna is a passionate and artistic woman who finds few acceptable outlets for her desires in her role as wife and mother of two sons living in conventional Creole society. Unlike the married women around her, [...]

The Killings at Badger’s Drift by Caroline Graham

Date of Publication: 1987, Felony and MayhemNo. of pages: 272
Synopsis (blurb from back cover):
Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the [...]

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (31 Aug 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0241143489
ISBN-13: 978-0241143483
From the back cover:
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook’s son trying to stay a step [...]

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Paperback: 894 pages Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Language English
ISBN-10: 1841954314
ISBN-13: 978-1841954318
From Amazon.co.uk:
Although it’s billed as “the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,” The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It’s the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. [...]

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

Date of Publication: 1794, Penguin Classics
Synopsis:
“When young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his master is hiding a terrible secret. His unearthing of the guilty truth proves calamitous when - despite Caleb loyally swearing never to reveal his discovery - the Squire enacts a [...]

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Date of Publication: 1946
Synopsis:
“When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals’ Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters [...]

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Date of Publication: 1847
Synopsis:
“Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only ‘respectable’ career open to them - that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then [...]