Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across...

When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life that consumes her daughter, Laura. The...

Jakop is a lonely man.

Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life...

When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the Oxfordshire countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the...

In a sleepy English village in 1944, Annabel and her son Daniel live in the shadow of war. With her husband away, an increasingly...

One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. No matter how the world...

How far would you go to belong?

Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the...

When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the...

If you could choose just sixteen moments to define your entire life, what would they be?
Cass Wheeler has seen it all - from the...

The Color of Money was adapted for the screen by Martin Scorsese and starred Paul Newman and Tom Cruise

It has been twenty...

1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London...

Stratford, 1943.

World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics...

Stratford, 1939.

Britain may be at war, but on the home front keeping up morale and keeping up appearances go hand in hand....

Childhood friends Asghar and Zahra were born into the same British Muslim community in west London. But they grow up into very...

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds,...

She has never approved of you. But it’s when her body is found the secrets really start to come out …

From the moment Lucy met...

The setting: Europe. A continent overrun by tourism, where tapas-crawlers cross paths with machine-gun-wielding cops, graffiti...

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both...

A murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.

On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her...

It was meant to be a quiet family fishing trip, a chance for mother and daughter to talk. But it changes the course of their...

Diana O’Toole’s life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she’s up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at...

Who would you be, if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are now?

Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping...

Erin wants a fresh start.

With her thirtieth birthday coming up, she's taken a long hard look at her life (the job she hates,...

It began with a comet. They called it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night with a swampy green...

It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new.

They called the comet Cain,...

Not since Edgar Allan Poe and the Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline...

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a...

A poignant ode to love and the memories that make a well-lived life, from the author of The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement...

A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper...

Seven-year-old Jake's heart is failing and he doesn't want to leave his dad, Simon, alone. So he makes a decision: to find Simon...