Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Heaven is for those who want to be in heaven, or who need to be.

Herbst 1861: Gustave Flaubert schreibt Salammbô, elektrisches Licht ist noch graue Theorie, und Abraham Lincoln führt jenseits des Ozeans einen Krieg, dessen Ende er nie erleben wird.

Amara had always believed fear announced itself loudly.

The realm of Eldoria is dying, choked by a creeping corruption that even King Atheron's might cannot stop.

Ray is twenty-three, living in a bright room, full of plans and quiet confidence.

This is not a story of discovery.

Tells the story of 4 young people who are interconnected with one another and come face to face with their doppelganger selves

Ruby woke up one morning and realized her fingers felt like leaves, her feet needed bare earth, and she could hear trees talking through their roots.

SIRS: I HEREBY RESIGN MY COMMISSION IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

Zwei Männer und eine Frau.

In the shadow of the Cascade Mountains, the Carver family has built a kingdom of stone and solitude—a place where three brothers inherit not just land, but the weight of their father's legacy and the burden of their own conflicting dreams.

Cara Devlin survived a factory fire that should have killed her.

The Salt Between Us is a coastal novel about love, ambition, and moral fracture set in a village threatened by both rising tides.

What scares you?

The news arrives.

 A Journey of Learning, Patience, and Wisdom 🌿Set in the thoughtful world of Vidyanagar, this story follows five companions—Clio, Theo, Sage, Kian, and Zeno—who begin their journey as curious learners seeking understanding beneath the warm glow of the Window of Golden Light.

This is my fourth publication in The First Tuesday Poetry series.

Nico and Elly wake in a bed meant for three, both feeling the absence of Prim.

At the inaugural Central European Literary Prize, two jurors are tasked with choosing the best novel of the year.

Under the City LightsA contemporary short story collection Under the City Lights is a collection of contemporary short stories set in the everyday spaces of modern urban life; supermarkets, offices, pubs, and family homes, where ordinary people face unexpected decisions that can change everything.

Peter Ofondo, survivor of William Agunwa's A Shadowed Dawn, returns to Nigeria to battle against the 4-1-9 syndicate, a mafia-style organization with contacts in high places, who thrived under a previous regime of General Abacha.

Coralie Vire is a painter running out of time.

Caleb Rusk, a white rancher in the 1980s, rides out into an open field furious at God, at money, at loss, and at the shape his life has taken.

In the shimmering glass city of Oura, perfection is the only currency.

Jewish extraterrestrials?

In a world where everyone is born with a book that writes their life, one child arrives with no pages at all.

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Famine Warfare: From Stalin to GazaDying Without a Bullet ✍ By Ahmed Khaled Al-TuhanA Book Written in Blood, Bread, and Silence.

Lucky reads the world like a map of hidden messages.

What do we afford—and what affords us?

Mr.

Negrísima, adictiva, brutalmente divertida, Toni lleva el universo de Mi marido y No voy a ninguna parte a un nuevo territorio: el de la gran novela del macho en demolición.

El tiempo no es una línea.

A Refusal to Mourn is a comic study of two elderly people who decide to take their own lives on their own terms.

Don't Leave Me Hangin' is a collection of short stories that leave the ending of the story for the reader to decide.

He missed his father's final hours by seven hours and one unaffordable plane ticket.

In 1936 North Texas, Earl Tully and Amos Bledsoe buy 640 acres of cheap dry ranchland that looks, at first glance, like the beginning of a life.

What if the music you love was controlling your mind?

The Chronicle of Lyari: A Spark-Weaver's Epic​Just beyond the thinnest membrane of reality, hidden within the shadows of Earth's oldest, untouched forests, lies the magical realm of Sylvanis.

The hearing room was empty at this hour, the long mahogany table stretching into the dark like a runway no one had used in years.

Quince relatos en los que flores venenosas, animales inquietantes, rituales rurales y jardines demasiado espesos resquebrajan la vida cotidiana.

An unexpected discovery in a university lab gives graduate student Josh Holland the chance to change the destiny of mankind, but an unknown adversary has seen what he can do and will stop at nothing to obtain his secret.

My name is Silhouette Cacciatrice.

Buffalo Bill and the Beast of BodminThe year is 1904, and the world-famous "e;Buffalo Bill"e; is touring his Wild West show around England.

Why We Do Not Descend to the Cellar to Laugh, Part 2  Why stay serious when you can laugh?

The day Madisson chose to die, she met Max on Westminster Bridge.

One hot September afternoon, Annie Henderson's life changed forever.

Former intelligence analyst, George Swift, is on the trail of the secret beyond all secrets.

What remains of a person when every version of her has been built for someone else?

Find out how Jems and Jamz came to be through the love, the laughter, and even the heartbreak that made the band what it is today.