English Books

An archaeological horror novel of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, forbidden knowledge, and the dead.

A luminous fairy tale contrasting greed and generosity through mountains, rivers, and a mysterious golden king.

A child’s city built from household objects becomes a living quest of towers, puzzles, danger, and courage.

Two cousins confront family secrecy, motherhood, respectability, and sacrifice.

A Victorian romance about innocence, artistic life, ambition, and the pressure of London society.

Five stories of rural desire, class, coincidence, moral pressure, and social custom.

A sparkling marriage plot driven by wit, money, and shifting desire.

A fast-moving con game in which every victim wants to believe.

A ballad opera where thieves, lovers, and politicians mirror one another.

A comic tangle of courtship, disguise, and cynical bachelorhood.

A dazzling comedy of greed built around a rich Venetian impostor.

A lively canoe journey through rivers, friendship, weather, and wandering.

The first volume of the great comic novel of chivalry, reading, and reality.

A selection of poems joining war, exile, family, history, friendship, and compassion.

A Victorian family novel about good intentions, charity, and unintended harm.

A luminous travel diary blending landscapes, linked verse, memory, and impermanence.

A journey across China’s mountains, rivers, caves, roads, and changing landscapes.

Essays of irony, cultural criticism, memory, and moral anger from one of modern China’s most incisive writers.

A Neo-Confucian anthology on self-cultivation, learning, moral discipline, and the ordering of everyday conduct.

A speculative Victorian novel asking what happens when unlimited wealth is placed in the hands of a man determined to remake society.

A comic historical adventure series narrated by a magnificently self-confident French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars.

A varied collection ranging from imperial adventure and war stories to crime, suspense, and tales of moral pressure.

A witty social novel about a poet’s widow who turns performance, secrecy, and ambition into a way through Victorian society.

A celebrated novel of an artist confronting blindness, disappointed love, ambition, and the brutal demands of professional identity.