Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

On a freezing winter's night, a small craft skims the Thames towards London's most exclusive riverside hotel. On board is a lone...

You can't believe all of them . . . But can you trust any of them?

Widower Kane Black has been hollowed by grief.

Until he...

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
When retired doctor Ben Wilf comes across ten-year-old Waldo...

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.

For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's...

Cheltenham Races, New Year's Eve.
Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from...

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the...

The ancient sports of murder and myth

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist....

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published...

Can revelations from the past help them start a new life?

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna,...

As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and...

The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job.

Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary...

Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter....

Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious...

One war, one soldier, one enduring love

1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young...

Jonasson... , J...

What happened to Lara Marteinsdottir?
Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lara spends the summer working for a couple on the small...

Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they...

The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Reached is the sequel to Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie....

The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants...

Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, Passing for Human is a neurological coming-of-age story in which Liana Finck goes in...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this...

Passion, war and deadly secrets . . .

Wartime France, 1944

Trust absolutely no one.

This is the only advice newly...

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that...

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'
One June day in 1955...

Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion.
But when Isobel's...

'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'

Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and...

You knew Hollywood would be difficult.

So when you land a job in television, you're ready for anything: pulling all-nighters,...

In this gorgeous and haunting fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her...

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond...