Literary Fiction

Thea Rogers has dedicated her life to her career in corporate law. Apart from her colleague and long-time friend-with-benefits Alasdair, she’s forgone friendships and relationships, and now she’s on track to become her firm’s youngest ever female partner. She should be ecstatic. But when a senior partner dies unexpectedly, Thea realises the people at his funeral are only there out of duty. Suddenly, Thea can’t shake the question: if she disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care?

David Copperfield war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren – Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti – verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen.

Lucie Marshal is absolutely furious! How did she go from being a successful wife and mother to divorced, teetering on bankruptcy, and barely speaking to her grown-up daughter? Even worse, she’s just heard that her moronic ex-husband Miles is marrying a much younger woman in an influencer-style wedding in France #blessed #theone. Lucie will absolutely NOT be going. To hell with Miles, his new teeth, new hair and new wife! She’s perfectly fine...In fact, Lucie feels lost and angry almost all of the time. Just what happened to her younger, freer wild child self, who used to live life to the full?

Yorkshire. 1649. Caragh has hidden her true name and her Irish identity, and since her family fled Ireland in secret they have been proud to own land of their own in England. But one morning, Caragh’s father tells her that they must leave their beloved home as it is no longer safe for them to stay. That morning, Caragh hears shots fired. When she returns to the cottage, she finds her family murdered by Lemuel Lane, a wealthy Protestant who has taken it upon himself to rid the area of anyone with Catholic sympathies.

When Fiona’s husband ups and leaves on the same day her only son goes away to college, she suddenly finds herself the wrong side of forty and feeling very alone. Fortunately, there’s a distraction of mammoth proportions swimming in the River Thames. Determined to make sense of the crazy events surrounding her life, Fiona embarks on a journey of self-discovery. But can she juggle her event planning business, a new-found eco-awareness, and a yoga instructor barely older than her son, without it all dragging her under?

When a young orphan decides to ignore the kind teachings of the people who took him in, he finds that he hurts those who care about him most. Will he ever mend his ways - and when will it be too late?

È un plotone di giovani ragazzi quello comandato dal maresciallo Antonio René. L'ultimo arrivato, il caporalmaggiore Roberto Ietri, ha appena vent'anni e si sente inesperto in tutto. Per lui, come per molti altri, la missione in Afghanistan è la prima grande prova della vita. Al momento di partire, i protagonisti non sanno ancora che il luogo a cui verranno destinati è uno dei più pericolosi di tutta l'area del conflitto: la forward operating base (fob) Ice, nel distretto del Gulistan.

Esilarante e stranamente tenero, l’esperimento di “ibernazione” narcotica di una giovane donna, aiutata e incoraggiata da una delle peggiori psichiatre della storia. New York, all’alba del nuovo millennio. La protagonista gode di molti privilegi, almeno in apparenza. È giovane, magra, carina, da poco laureata alla Columbia e vive, grazie a un’eredità, in un appartamento nell’Upper East Side di Manhattan. Ma c’è qualcosa che le manca, c’è un vuoto nella sua vita che non è semplicemente legato alla prematura perdita dei genitori o al modo in cui la tratta il fidanzato che lavora a Wall Street.

To strangers that pass her on the streets of Lahore, Mona Ahmed lives a life to be envied. Married to wealthy businessman Bilal, with happily married children, she seems to want for nothing. But behind the gilded exterior lies a past of secrets and heartbreak. While they may have weathered the storm of Mona's infidelity, with Bilal embracing the child born out of that secret love affair, their marriage remains shaky. Each day has the same slow, regular rhythm. . .until the first message arrives, and everything in Mona's life changes in an instant.

それは、彼女と僕だけの秘密です――世界に隠された恋と後悔の物語。迷い、悩み、嫉妬し、決断をしては、傷つき合う。恋の輝きと世界に隠された理不尽を鮮烈に描いたくラブストーリー。

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized at Oxford—and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite—a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear.

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Von der Autorin des Weltbestsellers "Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring" Venedig, 1468. Auf Murano, Wiege der Glaskunst, fließt die Zeit sanft wie das Wasser in den Kanälen. Doch der tragische Tod des Glasvirtuosen Lorenzo Rosso, bringt die Welt zum Stillstand. In ihrer Verzweiflung nimmt Tochter Orsola das Schicksal der Familie in die Hand. Mutig kämpft sie gegen alle Konventionen und erlernt im Verborgenen das Handwerk des Vaters. Ihr gläsernes Geheimnis, zart wie die Perlen, die sie formt, trägt sie durch die Zeiten und das Leben der jungen Frau verschmilzt mit den Geheimnissen der Stadt.

If ‘Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman. But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's been so comfortable in and open up her life – and her heart – to all the promise and possibility that her future holds.

Sono la Sposa giovane, dissi. Siamo all’inizio del secolo scorso. La promessa Sposa è giovane, arriva da lontano, e la Famiglia la accoglie, quasi distrattamente, nella elegante residenza fuori città. Il Figlio non c’è, è lontano, a curare gli affari della prospera azienda tessile. Manda doni ingombranti. E la Sposa lo attende dentro le intatte e rituali abitudini della casa, soprattutto le ricche colazioni senza fine.

Notre monde est fait de règles. Si toutes ces injonctions permettent la cohabitation pacifique de tous, elles assurent aussi le complet malheur de chacun. Les dés peuvent nous libérer, comme ils ont libéré Luke Rhinehart, un psychiatre à la vie étriquée, qui décide de jouer aux dés tous ses choix... quelles qu’en soient les conséquences.

Magdalena desaparece un domingo lluvioso en ausencia de sus padres. Tras casarse “en broma” durante una ceremonia secreta con Enrique, este la extrae en contra de su voluntad de su casa paterna. Guiadas por Crimen y castigo de Dostoievski, sus lecturas de Sherlock Holmes y su cultura hollywoodesca, Rosa y Estefanía buscarán a su hermanita en los barrios bajos de la ciudad de México y luego en Europa, donde finalmente se reunirán.

Es la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939 cuando el continente europeo despierta enmudecido por la marcha de miles de soldados alemanes hacia Polonia, a la que acabarán conquistando y anexionando con una guerra relámpago. Italia se mantiene al margen mientras que Reino Unido y Francia declaran inmediatamente la guerra a Hitler. Sin embargo, testigo de la rapidez del ejército nazi y cada día más presionado por los altos cargos fascistas, Mussolini se convence de que todo terminará pronto y en abril de 1940 decide también involucrarse en el conflicto.

This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction.

Widower Sir Adam Wilson has put off remarrying in favor of seeing to his textile business and the tenants farmers who work the fields. At thirty-five and a father of a young daughter, he can no longer ignore his need for an heir. When he discovers how his grandfather found his Lady Wilson, he decides to do the same—run a bride contest at the local fair.

Seine Exzellenz Eugène Rougon (Son excellence Eugène Rougon. Übersetzt von Armin Schwarz) Eugène Rougon hatte als republikanischer Minister des Innern im Jahr 1851 den Staatsstreich unterstützt, in dessen Zuge Staatspräsident Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte zum Kaiser Napoléon III. ausgerufen wurde. Rougons Karriere ist auf ihrem Höhepunkt. Zola begleitet Rougon durch seine politischen Machtkämpfe, die selbst vor dem Kaiser nicht Halt machen.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Finalist The Folio Prize 2022 & The Orwell Prize 2022. Naratoarea din Adunare este o tânără britanică de culoare. Ea se pregătește să participe la o petrecere extravagantă în grădina familiei iubitului său, situată într-o regiune rurală îndepărtată, în Anglia. În același timp, se gândește cu grijă la piesele din care este alcătuită. Pe măsură ce trec clipele și viitorul bate la ușă, nu se poate gândi decât la o întrebare: oare e timpul să renunțe la toate? Adunare este povestea poveștilor pe care le trăim.