In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then.
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart.
'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding' Stephen KingShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year'Pure, unadulterated entertainment' New York TimesThey thought it was contained.
An exciting new talent, shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize, hailed as 'a triumph' by The Times, and a poignant observer of human hearts, foibles and follies.
Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives.
THE TOP TWENTY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A brilliant new story-teller has arrived' ERIN KELLY'A read-in-one-sitting thriller' LUCY CLARKE'Chilling, devious' JANICE HALLETT'Glorious escapism with a murderous twist' TAMMY COHENThey thought it was perfect.
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' ROSE TREMAIN'A master storyteller' THE TIMES'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' DAILY MAIL'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' JOHN SELF, THE TIMES'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices.
THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES FROM JAPANANOTHER TALE OF CATS, CAKES AND ASTROLOGY FOR READERS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDUnder the influence of Neptune, the doors to people's dreams are opening once again.
The Saint of Games, Bonaventura, is a virtuous man who loves gambling and games, yet he feels directionless at this point in his life, despite his many wins and the riches from his family's casino.
Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This essay firstly looks at the culture model by Hofstede and its description of the Japanese culture in contrast to the American culture.
One of the Best Books of the Year ELLE Autostraddle Debutiful Chicago Review of Books MUBI Dazed LitHub Library Journal them Loosey Devious and diabolical, Herculine is a jaw-dropping and completely unpredictable literary bewitchment about trauma, desire, and identity.
'Gripping, poetic' Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine'An unforgettable read' Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah's KeySometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living.
Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet.
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.
Four stories, spanning a period of over fifty years, complete the biographies of the two main characters in DEATH OF A NATIONALIST; Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon, and Gonzalo Llorente.
Under the Open Sky is a collection of nine literary short stories about the small, consequential moments when people choose to be honest — with others, and with themselves.
