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James Clavell - Shogun
A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power.

Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
The first novel in the now classic Depford Trilogy is about a murder examined from multiple perspectives.

R. F. Delderfield - God is an Englishman
A military family's son who served in campaigns in India and the Crimea as part of a quest to found his own financial dynasty endeavors to woo the spirited daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, in a tale that brings readers from the plains of India to the slums of nineteenth-century London.

Laurence Durrell - Justine
On the eve of World War II in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, an exiled Irish schoolteacher becomes involved with Justine, the Jewish wife of a Coptic Christian.

John Fowles - The Magus
Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the island’s most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labyrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.

M. M. Kaye - The Far Pavilions
A monumental, internationally best-selling novel set in nineteenth-century India weaves a vast tapestry of love, war, and adventure in the foothills of the towering Himalayas.

Colleen McCollough - The Thorn Birds
A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his rich sister.

James Michener - Iberia
Photographs and the author's personal thoughts and recollections enhance this informal portrait of Spanish life and culture

Harold Robbins - The Carpetbaggers
From New York to California, from the prosperity of the aeronautical industry to the glitter and glamour of Hollywood, multimillionaire Jonas Cord and sensuous film star Rina Marlow discover a world of forbidden secrets, intrigue, ambitions, and passion.

Trevanian - Shibumi
A Westerner raised in Japan survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him.

Leon Uris - Trinity
Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916 Easter Rising.

Gore Vidal - Burr
The contemporary novelist uses a fictional memoir to illuminate Aaron Burr's life and times.