Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great...

A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise and tender in its depiction...

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Caught between her ageing, ailing mother Frances, and her struggling...

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny...

Where do you run when your heart's breaking all the rules?

When pillar-of-the-community Harry Stewart dies of a sudden heart...

The wager
To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.

The challengers
Three men in a mid-life crisis who...

Spain, 1939

Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in...

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in...

In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in...

A lonely librarian opens her heart...

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.

She begins...

Torday... , Torday...

Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into his windscreen. It is an...

On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man...

"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in...

In this extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth...

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever.

Opal is a...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the...

For reasons that will eventually become clear, Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing...

Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"

She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural...

At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the...

Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They...

Milly Dayton became a widow at 26. Two years later, she's got the whole thing down:
Go on the occasional date but bring your...

Meet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance...

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the...

Madame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...