Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of...

Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have...

Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife...

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now...

Set in a big Dublin hotel of the mid-nineteenth century, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a total theatre creation. In it, we...

Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst’s surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction – a theme...

A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench,...

This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In ‘The Killer’, he...

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and...

Liv Bloom’s life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when...

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed,...

Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define –...

A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections...

Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world–always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his...

Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the...

She’s ready to move on. But will her family let her?

An unforgettable marriage
Five years ago, the bottom fell out of Eden’s...

The stunning, emotional literary debut from Sunday Times-bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Alexandra Heminsley sees...

At forty-three, Christina Lennox thought her future was settled: marriage to Ed, children, a house of their own.

But this is...

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something new. After the death of her...

For thirty-somethings Lindy, Ailbhe and Roe, the move to Monteray Valley - a hyper-polished new luxury housing development -...

A profound and tender tale of guilt, the search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving from the critically...

An ordinary life. An extraordinary choice.

Adam Gabriel has always been a child of nature. Raised on his parents' remote...

Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, she is...

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this brilliant translation of Violaine Huisman's 'witty, immersive...

Felix Ventura trades in memories, a slippery character selling new pasts to people whose bright futures lack only a good lineage,...

The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets....

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for . . .

Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her...

If you knew how the love story finished, would you turn the first page?

Amy has been keeping a secret most of her adult...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a...

When March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe...