Fiction: special features

Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F.

A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was a larger-than-life personality of legendary vitality.

The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece.

The latest book in the internationally bestselling Erast Fandorin Mysteries series'Readers can expect prime Akunin - ingenious, twisty, exotic' Daily Mail Crimea, 1914.

Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions.

"A sweetly satisfying novel with layers of heartbreak and healing, forgiveness and family, homey wisdom .

This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.

These twelve linked stories confirm what we've suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmrat our parents.

Die frühesten Geschichten über Mittelerde, die Tolkien seit 1916 aufschrieb, sind hier gesammelt.

Eine große europäisch-jüdische Familiensaga – eine schillernde Geschichte über Liebe und die befreiende Kraft der HoffnungKopenhagen zwischen den Weltkriegen: Die politischen Entwicklungen der späten 1930er Jahre stehen unmittelbar bevor, doch noch ist die Wohnung der Koppelmans voller Trubel, Verwandter, Gespräche und Musik.

Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality.

Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love.

An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery.

Sie hat kein Gedächtnis und nur eine Erinnerung: und dafür geht sie bis ans Ende der Welt.

From the visionary mind of Philip K.

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

BRINGING DANGER CLOSE TO HOME .

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.

The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices.

The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize.

THE NEW AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MOUNTAIN"e;Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesb "e; - Massimo Vincenz, La Repubblica.

When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II.

In this new collection, Chioniso and other stories, we are once again reminded how Shimmer Chinodya mines his experience for nuggets.

A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTHONE OF M.

From the author of the internationally bestselling classic THE READER, a tale of obsession, possession and a mystery painting.

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revengeWhen the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting estate, quietly falling into darkness and ruin, and at the heart of it, a father, one of a long line of fathers who have flourished at the expense of those around them.

Neben der alten Klara, die in ihren Briefen schonungslos offen ist, begegnen wir dem stolzen Kind, dem verschlossenen jungen Künstler, despotischen Müttern und alten Schulkameraden.

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverTwo young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park.

An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose.

"e;The Troll Garden - And Selected Stories"e; is a 1905 collection of short stories by American writer Willa Cather.

In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems.

"Sterben mag ich nicht - das ist das Letzte, was ich tun werde.

Ja, die Liebe, gewiß.

Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered.

Mentioned in the same breath as The Little Prince, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Alchemist,Serdar zkan s enchanting debut novel The Missing Rose has the power to change your life.

In need of a bit of magic this Christmas?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The USA TODAY bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez's lyrical and ';wonderfully compelling' (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.

The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W.

A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away .

Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years.

Hans Augustin schildert in seinen Prosastücken "Fayum und andere Erzählungen" eine Welt, in der die Menschen den Boden unter den Füßen verlieren, die an unerwarteten Stellen aufbricht und wo vertraute Strukturen plötzlich zerbrechen.

Haben Menschen ein Bewusstsein?

A wonderful treasury of Louisa May Alcott's short stories.

One dead wife is tragic.

BLOOD FOLLOWS - In the port city of Lamentable Moll, a diabolical killer stalks the streets and panic grips the citizens like a fever.

An einer guten Party ist alles möglich: Tanz und Alkohol, Flirts und Schlägereien.

"e;The Phantom Lover And Other Thrilling Tales Of Thailand is perfect for those who want a fun crash course in the darker side of Thailand and its myths, superstitions and folklore.