Showing results for "Sex" in Literary Fiction

It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for...

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence", Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt. It provoked the top literary scandal of the decade. The novel was first published in Ukraine in 1996, unleashing a storm of controversy and propelling the author to national fame. It topped the bestseller list in Ukraine for more than ten years, making it the most successful Ukrainian-language book of the '90s in every regard.

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s 'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS 'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON 'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY 'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL 'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA I mute the...

'Did you know in Tudor times all the brothels were south of the river in Southwark and it was only much later that they moved up this way to Soho. Stews, they were called then.' Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers...

Bloomsbury presents Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble. The time is 1995, but everybody is linked by their past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and...

Glenda Jackson stars in this compelling drama series inspired by Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, highlighting different aspects of contemporary Britain. In 2015, double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to acting in Radio 4's Blood, Sex and Money, a radical reimagining of Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. Now, she reprises her role as matriarch/narrator in this eclectic mix of dramas inspired by Zola's novels, but set in modern Britain. 

“Erkekler Mars'tan, Kadınlar Venüs'ten” zamana meydan okuyan ve her daim güncelliğini koruyan eşsiz bir klasiktir. Kitabın başarısının sırrı, erkeklerin ve kadınların düşünme, hissetme ve davranma farklılıklarını anlamalarına ve benimsemelerine yardımcı olan basit ama derin kılavuzluğunda yatmaktadır. Bu kitap sayesinde sayısız çift sadece ilişkilerini geliştirmekle kalmamış, aynı zamanda onları dağılma eşiğinden de kurtarmıştır.

In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm listeners and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.

Brought to you by Penguin. Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting...

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings, both shaming and brutal. A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extramarital sex and wonders what he should do with the body.

The famed—some would say notorious—author of Trainspotting and many other brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading glitter of Miami's South Beach, with a novel that...

From the award-winning author of Denial comes a novel about a New Age writer whose life is irrevocably changed when a devastating climate disaster forces him to confront his belief in the existence of God. What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command? Arthur Zinn, an...

The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical ‘City of Ladies’ where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1405 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend...

When a buttoned-up professor and her unbuttoned daughter fall for the same irresistible man, a delightful, subversive comedy begins. . . . Life isn’t easy for single mother Ally Hughes. Teaching at Brown, her class load is huge and her boss is a menace. At home, she contends with a critical...

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time model and actress, recognisable but hard to place. Even though she's married to fading writer Frank Paris, Vittoria knows that she's really Vicki Wilson from Texas and that her deepest loyalty is to her brother, Johnny, who's been there for her from childhood, when he dealt decisively with the unwanted attention she got from other boys. Guided by Johnny, Vittoria enters the upper circles of Roman society. Before long, she's mingling with the high rollers, corrupt senators, and powerful movers.

Ani cu alcool și sex continuă nihilismul, mizantropia, ironia, revolta împotriva societății manelizate, reflecțiile originale, scenele necenzurate și detaliate de sex și umorul spumos din Sânge satanic. Romanul reia carismaticul și controversatul personaj M., cu pasaje temporale din...

“Tender and prickly and consistently confounds expectation . . . the novel is deft and light as air. But it carries a streak of something stronger and sharper than melancholy, tracing a relationship that is at once moving and deeply fraught.” —from the foreword by Katie Kitamura, author of...

Warum heißt ein Buch "Schluss mit dem Sex"? Damit Sie reinschauen! - Allerdings behandelt nur ein Teil des neuen Buches von Andrea Roedig Themen wie sexuellen Missbrauch, Feminismus, queere Identitäten, #MeToo, Transsexualität. Aufgenommen sind in dem Band etwa auch "Familiensachen", die jeweils auf ihre Weise um Verlust kreisen, um Verschwinden - physisch oder psychisch: etwa eine Recherche zu Müttern, die ihre Kinder verlassen haben.

Doris' Leben ist ein Trümmerhaufen und dieses Mal kann sie aber ausnahmsweise wirklich nichts dafür. Ihr kleiner Laden ist samt der dazugehörigen Wohnung bis auf den Grund abgebrannt. Ein paar verkohlte Holzbalken und eine Damenstrumpfhose mit Zwickel sind alles, was ihr geblieben ist. Zu allem Überfluss beichtet ihre Geschäftspartnerin ihr auch noch, dass sie die Feuerversicherung des Hauses vor einigen Wochen gekündigt hat. Doris ist ruiniert. Um nicht auf der Straße zu enden, zieht Sie notgedrungen auf dem Bauernhof ihres Exfreundes Björn ein.

Einer wie Tom wird von der Gesellschaft als Außenseiter betrachtet. Einer, der gegen den Strom schwimmt. Dem Musik alles bedeutet. Und der mit seiner Band ganz hoch hinauswill. Nachdem das mit dem Plattenvertrag nicht ganz so läuft, wie seine Bandkollegen und er sich das vorgestellt haben, und dann auch noch sein Glück bei den Frauen ausbleibt, stürzt er in eine Depression. Tom ist es gewohnt, dass die Menschen seiner Umwelt auf seine Lebensweise argwöhnisch und ablehnend reagieren, doch dass ihn selbst irgendwann auch die großen Fragen des Lebens einholen, damit hatte er nicht gerechnet.