When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk albeit gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator.

The Boy Who Said No is first and foremost a story of people and their travails.

Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in two parts, each resoundingly popular and receiving critical acclaim.

It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.

In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984?

Action, humor, and adventure rule as Ranger Black Jack Ransom accepts a special assignment.

The Time?The future. Hours, days, weeks, months. A couple of years, maybe. The Place?

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy.

The Inkling by Fred Chappell is, says the New York Times, "A work of genuine talent…

An Old West adventure set in the rugged Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel begins in South Africa where Herschel Haverman joins the Frankel family.

Who killed Kennedy? Many keen minds have their doubts about the findings of the Warren Commission.

Mythic in scale though decidedly contemporary in tone, The Shasta Gate has all the ingredients.

The snake, half a meter long, was twisted around the handle of the pail.

Dodge City is the second of three historical novels depicting the life of fictional plains adventure.

Have you been dissed by dust? Does the thought of cooking dinner turn your stomach.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90%.