"V Pėgforde na sorok pi︠a︡tom godu zhizni skoropostizhno skonchalsi︠a︡ chlen mestnogo soveta Barri Feĭrbrazer. Ėto sobytie poverglo gorozhan v shok. V provint︠s︡ialʹnom angliĭskom gorodke s moshchenoĭ rynochnoĭ ploshchadʹi︠u︡ i drevnim monastyrem, kazalosʹ by, t︠s︡arit idillii︠a︡, no tak li ėto na samom dele? Chto skryvaetsi︠a︡ za krasivymi angliĭskimi fasadami?Na samom dele tikhiĭ gorodok uzhe davno nakhoditsi︠a︡...

In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County--to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto--pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly...

In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...

Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.