NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author.

On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia,...

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece—and "one of [Christian fiction's] most honored and talented writers" (Library Journal)—comes a heart-wrenching but uplifting story about a highly controversial topic.
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...

A collection of stories about rich Wasps. In Ars Gratia Artis, a railroad baron becomes a patron of the arts in a bid to atone for a life of money grabbing, while in Geraldine, a woman chooses dignity over money.

One of a series of 6 small books dealing in a short and accessible way with the key concerns for Christians. The book is written with a mission to help those people trapped by guilt, and by a very dark view of God as punitive and demanding blood. It presents the central doctrine of the atonement in a wider spiritual framework for Christians in a way which will respond to their spiritual as well as theological needs.

"First, there was THE ARRANGEMENT -- a scandalous story about Peter and Ainsley Greenburg's attempt to fix their marriage, no matter the cost. Then, came THE AMENDMENT -- with their darkest secrets revealed, the couple set out in a treacherous attempt to repair what had been broken. Now, Peter and Ainsley's marriage will be put to one final test with THE ATONEMENT. Ainsley Greenburg has always been a fixer. But her latest attempt to repair her marriage...

Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen this day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this mis most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a...

In French-occupied Prussia, local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis is enlisted by the French authorities to investigate the brutal killings of a mother and her three children and finds himself searching for the victim's missing husband, evading bandits, and protecting the local resistance movement in his pursuit of a killer.

"Laura Bishop is an ex-special ops soldier that has settled into raising her daughter Kate. She spends her days in a security job at a place that she thought would not require much effort, a church. Until a team of armed terrorists takes the church by siege. As she leaves to report the incident to the cops, she notices her daughter₂s bike lying at the church entrance and rushes back in. Laura₂s rage engages her past in special ops setting off...

"Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus 'paid for our sins' lie depths of implication: Did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger? Is sacrifice (consciously or unconsciously) intended to induce the deity to show favor? What underlies the various metaphors for atonement used in the Bible? Here, Stephen Finlan surveys psychological theories that help us to understand beliefs about sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal...