Kate Morton had made her debut with the novel The House at Riverton in 2006, which was a great success. The young author immediately gained recognition in literary circles and was treated as a writer of big hopes. Kate Morton did not disappoint...

The Forgotten Garden was first published in July of 2008 by Allen & Unwin in Australia, and in April 2009 Atria Books in the United States. The story behind The Forgotten Garden was inspired by the author’s own family history. Morton’s...

The House at Riverton is the breakout novel of Australian novelist Kate Morton who resides in London. It was originally published in 2007 by Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom. The novel has also been released under the alternative title The...

The Secret Keeper is a novel published in 2012 and written by Kate Morton. This novel features a young teen named Laurel as its protagonist, beginning in the 1960s in England and later ending around the beginning of the 21st century.

Morton, one...

Paula McLain is an American novelist born in 1965 in Fresno, California. As a child, she suffered the abuse of neglectful parents and therefore switched in and out of multiple foster homes. When she turned 18, she started to support herself by...

Circling the Sun was written by Paula McLain, author of New York Times and internationally bestselling novels, such as The Paris Wife. This historical fiction novel was published during 2015 by Ballantine Books.

It tells the story of an...

Mockingjay is the third and final installment in The Hunger Games series of novels by Suzanne Collins, completing the story of Katniss Everdeen which began in The Hunger Games (2008) and continued in Catching Fire (2009). By the time Mockingjay...

Someone was published in 2013 and was also a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Someone is a novel written by Alice McDermott and details the life of an Irish American family, specifically...

Few historians are as well-known as David McCullough. Dubbed "America's Historian," any time the two-time Pulitizer winner McCullough releases a book, people line up to buy it.

Such was the case with The Wright Brothers. McCullough first became...

We Are Called to Rise is a novel written by Laura McBride and published in 2014. McBride is an American author who studied at Yale University and now teaches English at the College of Southern Nevada. As her first novel, We Are Called to Rise is...

Erik Larson's works tend to reflect his highly academic approach to life. A summa cum laude grad of the University of Pennsylvania, and also of Columbia University, he turned to journalism after seeing the film All the President's Men, which helps...

Sometimes it seems as though every teen girl dreams of running off to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. This was never more true than in the years of the Great Depression when it really did seem as though a girl could be working on the...

The Brides of Rollrock Island was written by award-winning author Margo Lanagan. It was first published during 2009 and was later published during 2012 by David Fickling Books. This fictional novel tells the story of the magical essence of...

Elizabeth Kostova’s debut novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 by Little, Brown and Co. in the United States. Created and crafted in a time span of ten years, The Historian became a bestseller in the first week of its sale. As a child,...

And the Mountains Echoed is the third novel written by Khaled Hosseini in 2013. It was published on May 21, 2013. The book is written in the genre of historical drama. It won the Goodreads Choice Award in the category "Fiction" and Paris Review...

The film Departures is a Japanese drama directed by Yōjirō Takita and released in 2008. The film is a drama that follows the life of a mortician in a rural area in Japan. The film is inspired by a novel entitled Coffinman, an autobiographical...

The novel Departure is the first standalone novel written by the American writer A.G. Riddle.

The novel follows the trilogy The Atlantis Gene written a few years before the novel Departure. Just like in the series Atlantis, the novel Departure is...