Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The...

Dear Ally is a treasure for aspiring writers at any stage of their careers. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how books get...

When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed! According to legend, she has...

Before Katy, Jorge, Pepper, and Josie were best friends, they were just four teenagers following their dreams.

Katy Keene is...

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the...

A modern retelling of Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men, this landmark work from DD Armstrong is a poignant look at intimacy,...

Jack and Toni, childhood schoolmates living in the Solomon Islands, set out on a routine boat trip to a neighboring island....

One little cocaine-induced heart attack and it's back to my childhood to start over ... A wry, debut novel about addiction and...

The Francombe & Salter Mercury has served the residents of two South Coast resorts for over 150 years. Hit by both the economic...

Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize.

Lovelorn...

A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.

From his village in...

The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant...

‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their...

Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not...

Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.

It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping...

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...