Tracy Chevalier, the author of the bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring returns with a stunning new novel The Last Runaway set in the tangled forests and sunlit cornfields of 1850s Ohio. Rupert Thomson (This Party’s Got to Stop) sets his sights on Florence in 1691 with Secrecy, a love story, a murder mystery and a portrait of a famous city in an age of austerity. Two of our best contemporary writers go back in time.