Fiction: special features

Writing an on-line walk-through to a computer game of some complexity can take up a lot of time.

Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction .

The best of the shorter adventures of Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), are brought together in this page-turning collection of short stories - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan.

Someone killed Bill, and whoever it was stole all the money.

Meet the people who make it all happenthe photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the perfect day for countless couplesas they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R.

';I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.

Srdan Srdic's collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region.

"e;Girl,"e; my mama had said to me the minute she entered my hospital room, "e;on the highway of life, you're always traveling left of center.

In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddams invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munirawith the gorgeous eyesand the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an insult to his character and manhood.

What had happened to her own daughter?

"e;Scott's poetry is as funny as the finest stand up comedy with razor sharp punch lines that hit in just the right places.

With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.

This compelling collection of 18 short stories gives an insight into the psychological response to human emotion.

Born in what is now North Korea, Kang wrote all her fiction in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation and witnessed the violence and daily struggles experienced by ethnic Koreans living in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, "e;an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective"e; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.

This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise.

Best Books of 2018 in Crime Fiction by Library Journal"e;Fans of Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy books and other police procedurals that handle violence and political issues with black humor will welcome this outstanding crime novel.

Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists.

One night turns into two weeks when their worlds unexpectedly collide.

';From the absurdly comic to the acutely moving'eleven fearless stories of love, friendship, faith and family under siege (The New York Times Book Review).

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K.

A solitary woman, her life changed by an afternoon of 'wanting, wanting, wanting', becomes obsessed with a writer at his desk by the window below.

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see.

"e;The Longchamp mysteries combine history and mystery in a gritty way that makes them feel different from most amateur-sleuth fare-dark-edged rather than cozy.

To a future girl, Mishell, who flies with the aid of anti-gravity wings, the death in a freak accident of a beloved older brother, Mykel, is hard to accept.

Much of the text in the Bible is in the form of stories.

Forging documents in an Egyptian government office, a bureaucrat 'authorizes' a police department for a nonexistent city in Upper Egypt in order to siphon off its monthly payroll.

Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances.

The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures

When Elderly Miss Allie sees her new great-grandbaby for the first time, she discovers a shocking truth about her own past, a truth that causes Miss Allie to sneak away into the woods with the baby -- who, in Miss Allie's memory-addled mind, is only a heavy doll, one she can carry no longer.

Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction .

'The curtain veiling the mysterious things called the past rending itself in two and reflecting ghostly light over the twentieth century is the tower of london.

From Madeleine Oh, perfect for a bed time story or a quiet moment.

';Beautiful and finely crafted.

In the last column of a job application, there's that tricky question: reason for leaving?

';This moving debut collection examines complicated family relationships in the rural American South.

In the year 2000 Dead Cat Alley had been declared an historic landmark.

A Time of Trouble and Other Stories tells of events that take place in a small town called Laurens in the state of South Carolina.

This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born.