Fiction: special features

From murder mysteries and pirate attacks to fantasies and sci-fi, this collection of F.

When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he s handsome, he s charming and he makes her happy.

George R.

Hilarious and sad at the same time, Ehrlich's collection of short stories, Who Will Die Last is an original and moving work of fiction.

Frauen hassen nicht.

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished in England, and discovers shifting motives, unreliable testimony and growing danger in this foundational classic of mystery fiction.

Even happy days come to an end.

She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder.

The narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, Four Hands, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua.

Giulia Becker ist die Königin des Grotesken, des Überdrehten.

For more than four decades, Ursula K.

When Kjersti A.

Das gesamte journalistische und erzählerische Werk Joseph Roths: 6 Bände Diese Ausgabe hat Bestand!

Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France.

Talismano is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities-in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was.

A delightfully eclectic assortment of short works by the renowned author, including stories featuring her famous detective Inspector Alleyn.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOROn his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing.

Five kids orphaned by a terrible accident .

The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.

This book will have you shivering with sentiment and frowning in deep thought with every ending.

'Hotter than the rest of your TBR' Cosmo'Pure, steamy fun, and the perfect summer read' Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis'A fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read!

From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity"e;A parable about modern migration that is also the kind of detective story Mikhail Bulgakov might have written: visionary and darkly humourous"e; Lucy Hughes-Hallet, New Statesman BOOKS OF THE YEAR"e;A timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island"e; The New European BOOKS OF THE YEARThe Dog Islands are a small, isolated cluster of islands in the Mediterranean - so called because together, when viewed from above, they form the shape of a dog, twisting and baring its teeth against a brilliant blue sea.

'Birrell has a grand eye for the small detail that is the hallmark of a well-made story.

After setting sail on from South Carolina aboard the ship "e;Independence"e;, the unnamed narrator is informed that an old college friend-Cornelius Wyatt-is also aboard with his wife, two sisters, and a large, mysterious box.

Oddives is a follow-up to Jace Epple's first book The Macabre Box.

This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Einsam im fremden England, vertraut Asta, eine junge Dänin, ihre Freuden und Nöte einem Tagebuch an: Probleme mit dem Mann, ihre Bemühungen um Eigenständigkeit, das Nahen des Ersten Weltkrieges.

Lost Face (1910) is a collection of seven short stories by American writer Jack London.

The cult Swedish graphic novel that inspired the critically acclaimed Lukas Moodysson film We Are the Best!

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mothers childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.

Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'.

Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men.

Some of the Latest and Best from the Whodunnit Genre"e;.

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's.

The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins.

Wer in den zwölf weißen Bänden von Christoph Ransmayrs »Spielformen des Erzählens« nach dem klassischen Ton großer Erzählungen sucht, wird jene 13 Geschichten entdecken, die nun erstmals in einem Band versammelt sind.

From #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly comes Nocturnes, a dark, daring, utterly haunting shot story anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts.

From Harold Brodkey come three remarkable stories about the brief lives of two women and the troubling appearance of an angel above Harvard UniversityConsidered by many to be among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Harold Brodkey created fiction that startled, provoked, and often confounded.

Von feenhaften Glühwürmchen, schuldigen Hunden, betrunkenen Rentieren und verspielten OktopussenEr ist Mitglied des Ig-Nobelpreis-Komitees für kuriose Wissenschaften, Vorsitzender der Transsilvanischen Dracula-Gesellschaft und der bekannteste Kriminalbiologe der Welt: Dr.

An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - the title story, one of Mann's most political, explores the rise of facism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian village.

»Das Herz der verlorenen Dinge« bietet für alle neuen Leser den Einstieg in die Welt von Osten Ard.

Fame is a deadly game.

A Time Out New York Best Book of the Year.

Der neue Roman von Baptiste Beaulieu »Die Taxifahrerin, die das Glück brachte« ist eine Hommage auf das Glücklichsein, eine Kampfansage an den Trübsinn!

This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family.

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The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality.