Literary Fiction

Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.

Lucy lives in a Berkshire village with her two friends, Jane and Bella, and works in the marketing department of Widgetex Computers. Her boss – Slave Driver – is a constant bane; her family are lovable eccentrics; her boyfriend, the dishy but fickle Greg, takes shameless advantage of her (Lucy is too good hearted to notice). Throughout two action-packed, fun-filled, disaster-strewn years, Lucy charts an erratic course among this motley crew to her very own happy ending.

L'aristocratie anglaise ne se doute guère que lady « Gus » Augusta et sa sœur Julia sont beaucoup plus que deux vieilles filles. Gus et Julia ont accueilli Hester, la sœur de lord Evan, un séduisant forçat évadé dont Gus est amoureuse, ainsi que sa compagne pour les protéger d'une société qui rejette l'homosexualité. Cependant, le passé trouble de lord Evan ne cesse de les mettre en péril et l'étau se resserre autour du petit groupe. Les sœurs doivent à la fois prouver l'innocence du lord et exfiltrer les deux femmes.

Kana sería un pueblo perdido en Turingia si su remota desolación no hubiera atraído a un grupo de neonazis a su seno. Mientras que los lugareños mantienen sus distancias, Florian Herscht, un huérfano tan formidable como inofensivo, cree tener amigos en ambos bandos: convencido de que el universo está a punto de colapsar, escribe una carta tras otra a Angela Merkel para advertirla de la supuesta catástrofe. No obstante, el descubrimiento de la música de Bach le abrirá nuevas perspectivas.

Standing on the cliff above the wild Irish sea, Hannah wipes a tear from her eye and thinks about the man she called ‘Da’. She was never his daughter. Hannah has been lied to her whole life by everyone she loved. Will she ever find where she truly belongs? When warm-hearted Hannah Barry’s...

夫も仕事も失い、生きる気力をなくした美紀。最後の旅のつもりで訪れた鎌倉の片隅で、台湾茶カフェ「鎌倉茶藝館」を見つけ、魅入られ、働き始める。お茶や着物、古都の穏やかな日常に触れ、明るさを取り戻す美紀。

大学２年の夏、サキは母親の計略に引っかかり、大っ嫌いな歯医者で受付のアルバイトをすることになってしまう。個性豊かで、患者に対し優しく接するクリニックのスタッフに次第にとけ込んでいくサキだったが、クリニックに持ち込まれるのは、

"We have to search for the truth. What is the use of bringing children into a world that is not worth living in?" In this sharp, experimental satire, Virginia Woolf explores the gap between male reputation and reality. A group of women, disillusioned by the supposed "greatness" of the world...

The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants. “I’m you now. We all are.” When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at...

En Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, un hallazgo macabro sacude la rutina de la ciudad: un brazo amputado aparece en un contenedor, con un tatuaje que solo puede pertenecer a un hombre desaparecido días antes. La jueza Mara Ramírez, recién llegada a la isla y aún marcada por sus propios fantasmas, se enfrenta a su primer caso. A su lado —y en constante fricción— trabaja el inspector Aitor Ibarra, cuya torpeza para gestionar los sentimientos contrasta con su instinto policial.

Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow 'A challenging, unconventional and daring piece of fiction ' THE INDEPENDENT 'Blending emotional sincerity with pulpy pastiche' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Psychedelic post-punk fantasia'...

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship. In...

A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace.

Painting a candid picture of a family in crisis, Something in Disguise is a haunting, heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves...

30年前の国民的刑事ドラマ『左右田警部補』。最終回目前に、主演俳優・雪宗衛が妻殺しの容疑で逮捕され、打ち切りとなる。「日本で最も有名な刑事」の逮捕劇に日本中が熱狂する中、雪宗は緊急記者会見を開き、

裏社会の人間が次々と惨殺された「ブルーマーダー事件」。その渦中で暴力団組長・皆藤が行方不明になっていた。組長の妻は、彼も巻き込まれたのではというのだが。（表題作）　マンションの一室で男が合成麻薬による不審死を遂げた。

「すごい原稿がある」――ベストセラー作家が死の間際に残した一言より始まった原稿捜索。しかしそれは、出版業界を揺るがしかねないパンドラの箱だった……「創作」の倫理をも問う問題作！

晴れて夫と離婚したものの、経済的困難から結婚相談所で男たちに出会う中米志津子。早期退職に応じてキャンピングカーで妻と旅する計画を拒絶される富裕太郎……。みんな溜め息をつきながら生きている。

懸賞で当たった映画の試写会で私が目にしたのは、自身の行動が盗撮された映像だった。その後、悪夢のような出来事が私を襲う……。（「試写会」）　とある村に代々伝わる極秘の祭り。

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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

気力を喪うひと、生きる理由が分からなくなるひと、そして惑う母、辛い父に捧ぐ、懐かしくて真っさらな日本人の物語

From the “most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store—or to erase—our memories. The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new...

As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...

Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human. “The Radiant Dark is incandescent.” —Sarah Jessica Parker It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard...