In the speculative fiction story Minerva's Oath, set in the Middle Ages, Minerva and her husband are deities who have lived amongst humans on different continents for millennia, and have witnessed the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history.
Eine von Ricarda Huchs beruhmtesten Erzahlungen uber Revolution, Familie und einen GenerationenkonfliktEine Familie verbringt die Sommermonate auf dem Land.
Die ergreifende Geschichte einer Jugendliebe gilt als einer der beruhmtesten Prosatexte von Iwan TurgenjewDer sechzehnjahrige Wladimir Petrowitsch genie t seine jugendliche Freiheit.
Eine raffinierte Erzahlung uber Liebe, Kunst, Geld und GenderfluiditatEin Ball im Pariser Stadthaus der reichen, kultivierten Familie Lanty gibt Anlass zu Spekulationen.
Ein erholsam-idyllisches (Bilder-)Buch uber die junge Liebe und sommerliche LandpartienEin junges Paar entflieht der hektischen Gro stadt der fruhen 1910er Jahre ins landliche Idyll Rheinsberg.
The Mystery of the Stinky Classroom is packed with silly stories, dramatic reactions, goofy investigations, and 144 laugh-out-loud jokes kids can share again and again.
Based on true events, The Graveyard Shift tells the story of Cole, a medical student working the night shift, who starts to experience unusual events at the old hospital where he works.
When outsiders Fred and Luke arrive in Prosperity Springs seeking work, they quickly realize the labour contract they've signed binds them to a centuries-old secret ritual of fertility.
When monster hunter Amor's team is slaughtered by the gruesome beast they've been tailing, and death is at her throat, she finds herself thrown to safety.
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France s greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence.
Three stories - the never-before-published 'Picket Line', along with 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man' - showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling 'Like all of Leonard s books, Picket Line is a taut and engaging tale.
A child in danger brings them togetherAfter a suspected drug trafficker's plane crashes in the mountains with Mara Dawson's niece aboard, FBI Agent Cameron Frasier leads a high-stakes rescue mission.
'A novel to marvel at' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'Like Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the world' SUNDAY TIMES'Astonishing' MICHAEL MAGEE'Left me awestruck' HANNAH MURRAYThe acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.
'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES'Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER'Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNGBefore there was Jaws, there was.
This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all.
THE #1 KOREAN INSTANT BESTSELLER AND PRIZEWINNERDiscover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUN Engaging, touching, subtly disturbing K-Lit Review A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions Kim Bo-young A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without leaving anyone or anything behind Choi Jin-young, author of To the Warm HorizonFrom its perch on top of a pile of junk inside a shed, Coli, a robot with powerful observational qualities, waits patiently for someone to find it.
Unbearably tense and unmissably twisty, this is the outstanding debut suspense novel from the most exciting new voice in thriller writing, Leodora Darlington'Outstandingly clever.
When their summer settlement is flooded without warning, a family of S mi women must fight for their way of life in a changing world, in this powerful, haunting novel.
DISCOVER THE KOREAN BESTSELLER AND STEP INTO A MAGICAL WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEAn uplifting and healing gift of a book that asks would you trade your life for another one?
