Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

 Un café, dos mujeres, una mirada, otra.

The War has ended in Europe but Asia still rages on.

In the digital age, your greatest vulnerability isn't your password—it's your heart.

A must-read Ante s sensuous description of life counts the true cost to one family of a mother having to work abroad as a nurse.

Der Protagonist Zweifelssohn – wie der jüdische Aufklärer Mendelssohn, aber mit Zweifel – reist von Wien über verschiedene deutsche Städte bis nach Rügen und ist dabei immer auch auf der Flucht vor einer Welt, die der eigenen Gewalt nicht mehr entkommen kann.

The Messenger from Easy Street by Harry Knickerbocker is a profound and thought-provoking journey into the mysteries of life, death, and consciousness.

Claire Bennett is thirty-six, divorced, raising a daughter alone and three years from the partnership track at a Denver corporate law firm.

A man is travelling to Africa from Europe.

¿Com és una persona quan ja no li queda res?

​The forest was never meant to speak.

A Talented Mr Ripley for contemporary Berlin: a twisting, sensual, heady and razor-sharp exploration of creativity, fame, desire and the divided self'Riotous and raunchy .

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media • A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub • February Book Club Pick by Good Housekeeping “The writing is so good it left me breathless.

In disregard of his father's fears that he could face the same harrowing persecution he had faced, causing him to flee from the land of his birth and settle in a foreign land, his bold son nevertheless returned there prepared to confront his father's enemies.

From the New York Times bestselling author of If I See You Again Tomorrow comes a delightful and heartwarming novel about family, love, grief, and one precocious houseplant, that reminds us of the beauty of living a life in full Bloom.

DEAR TALES is a monthly zine of short stories and poems, sometimes by different writers.

General fiction involving two true friends that are trying to succeed in business.

Under the Starlit Sky: The Historian is a philosophical historical novel that follows the life and inner journey of Immanuel Kant.

Dear Reader, Thank you for joining us at the beginning of a very interesting journey for a former biker club kid who made good only later to return to a world far different than she remembered.

In the glittering world of high-end companionship, Margaux Reilly is the exception.

Trapped by the storm and by her own desires, Amy can no longer deny what she wants.

La culture (sud)-coreenne s'etale depuis peu sur les murs et sur les ondes.

Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Rich,ard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam.

"e;Ukraine's greatest living writer"e; The Times"e;Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre"e; New York TimesFresh from a case that has shattered his belief in the regime he works for, Samson Kolechko is confronted with a mystery that borders on the impossible.

The last year of high school is meant to be about excelling in your sport, spending time with friends and making new memories.

Emily Austin, the bestselling queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief, love, and the power of libraries.

What's more Canadian than this?

Becoming Whole AgainA Story of Healing, Faith, and the Courage to Begin AnewBy Chrissie RolleElena Matthews thought she knew what love was — until the relationship she had poured a decade of her heart into crumbled just before their wedding.

At the end of Ch ri the young Ch ri left his aging mistress L a on the eve of his marriage.

'An unsettling, hypnotic meditation on violence and privilege' CHARLES CUMMING 'Osborne is the master of the well-made, high-class thriller' THE TIMES'A langurous cat-and-mouse thriller' DAILY MAIL 'Absolutely sensational' CRIMEREADS'Osborne excels at evoking atmosphere' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT* A CrimeReads and i News Best Thriller Summer 2026 *A tense, Ripley-esque novel set in glittering Istanbul for readers of John le Carr and Patricia HighsmithAt the Mexican border, Diana ditches her car and jumps on a bus.

The 2008 Mary McCarthy Prize winner, selected by Andrea Barrett.

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.

In the aftermath of COVID‑19, the world believed it had learned how pandemics end.

In the quiet fictional European city of Velmora, time seems to move gently through rain-covered streets, glowing cafés, and old tram stations.

Mumbai's Bollywood: The Eternal SpotlightWhere dreams wear sequins—and shadows.

Muhammad Ari Pratomo was once a rising star in a prestigious law firm—until his conscience forced him to walk away.

The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction.

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.

What if your life purpose is found in an unexpected promise?

The Kindling: A Political Thriller"e;The exploitation of a genuine wound does not make the wound fictional.

A container ship crosses the North Atlantic in three places at once.

The new is really old.

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Raised By Silence is a deeply emotional contemporary drama about childhood emotional neglect, generational trauma, and the painful journey toward healing.

Natalia Moreno is thrilled when she arrives in Fiji for a relaxing vacation.

Treading on Shifting Ground promises to be a deeply moving and important narrative work.

In the middle of cold London rain, Johan Vale lives a quiet life above a small repair shop filled with broken radios, unfinished coffee, and loneliness he no longer questions.

After losing the career he spent years building in London, Ethan Vale returns to the small English town of Brindle, a place he once believed he had outgrown.

In a Virginia hospital, forty-one-year-old Matthew Winton awakens from a car accident with no memory of his life after the age of thirteen.

Some girls write in their diaries.

Strike Beirut by Garrison West is a gripping, high-velocity tech noir thriller that plunges readers into a dark, suffocating underworld of machine-speed warfare and systemic corporate conspiracies.