Fiction: special features

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann CleevesAn omnibus edition containing four titles featuring Inspector Maigret: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (where Maigret goes back to the place of his birth), The Misty Harbour (where Maigret is left tied up on a rainy quayside all night), Maigret (where Maigret comes back from retirement) and The Judge's House (where Maigret is exiled to a mussel farming community).

Erica Winchat, a young writer overwhelmed by the stress of her first book contract, discovers thirteen curious items tangled in the flotsam on the Scottish beach of Tràigh Lar.

Elaine Neil Orr, born in Nigeria to expat parents, brings us an indelible portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose.

"e;What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

The Falcks are one of the most powerful families in Norway.

This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.

The contributors of this anthology make up a wide spectrum of South Africans: black, white, men and women, established and budding who write in either English or Afrikaans.

Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction.

The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre.

In 2016, while in the early stages of IVF, Rose is shaken by the discovery that she carries a dangerous mutation of the BrCa1 gene.

'You like it darker?

At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "e;write a book about light.

Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.

Este estudio recoge los hallazgos mas recientes del fenomeno de la ficcion minima en su triple vertiente: creativa, teorica y critica.

Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds was chosen by The Times as one of the three best graphic novels of 2007.

Forty-one-year-old Abra, the narrator of Third Class Relics, gathers with her brother and cousins for an uncomfortable dinner the night after her father's wake.

"e;A bizarre and darkly funny world .

Zeno ist fünfzehn und sitzt im berüchtigten Jugendgefängnis auf der Insel Nisida vor Neapel, weil er einen Jungen, der ihn umbringen sollte, erschossen hat.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER.

1492: In Spanien wütet die Inquisition.

In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era.

A young school boy visiting his aunt's country house finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness.

Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood.

A charming and nostalgic read, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love stories set in wartime.

'With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis .

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From the uthor of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a ';funny, astute, searching' (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station.

Dieser Band vereinigt eine Auswahl der besten Erzählungen des Schweizer Autors Jürg Amann.

Erstens kommt es anders und zweitens, als man denkt.

A Devil Comes to Townis a brilliant form of torture.

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.

A compassionate rendering of acclimation and its many challenges.

SPIEGEL-BestsellerAlle Geschichten und Schriften J.

An enthralling and enchanting collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Strawberry Thief.

The country estate, masters and servants, mystery and intrigue, sex and money.

Brünn am Ende des Krieges und befreit vom Joch der deutschen Okkupation.

The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceivedIn the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held  frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent.

"e;A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present"e; KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment"e;A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca's most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date"e; JAVIER CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis"e;A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing.

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works.

In East Jerusalem Noirpublished simultaneously with West Jerusalem Noirthe Akashic Noir Series turns its gaze to one of the world's mostfascinatinglocales, in this volume from the perspective of Palestinian writers; translated from ArabicFrom the editor's introduction: When you move through the streets of Jerusalem today, you will notice that history surrounds you from all sides.

Eine Lebensretterin, die über ihre Tat so lange schweigt, bis sie sie selbst vergessen hat; ein Sport-Star, der alles gewinnt, was es zu gewinnen gibt, und doch das Glück verloren hat; die Hauptdarstellerin einer Reality-Show, die nichts anderes tut als auf der Couch zu sitzen und trotzdem von Millionen bewundert wird: Das sind drei von dreizehn Frauen - sie alle tragen den Namen Andrea Hofer, sie alle sind Heldinnen, jede auf ihre ganz besondere Art.

Still Life with Plums is a vibrant collection of short stories that weaves together the outwardly distant lives of several strangers.

Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.

The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow peopleliterally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madnessand people's ability to forge connections in spite of extreme conditions.

In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era.