The Story of Ain'tIt takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice ripper. David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection. Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Websters Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked Americas greatest

silent former soldier who works with her at the bar that’s become her home away from home

The Miracle on Ice: A detailed

becomes obsessed with the stories she hears about the war

In this dark farce of a novel

where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs

receives a call about the Cheapside jewels

The New York Times bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women

handsome nephew of the owner of the charity shop where Morgan is volunteering

and her aloof

cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon

But even in this most private of retreats

has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect