Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner...

Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.

'Startling... explosive and...

Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love – passionate love, illicit...

My mother made a snap decision.
How could we know it would change us forever?

Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as...

Welcome to Stanley Donwood’s fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets and high-rise concrete, creeping shadows and...

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few...

Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them…
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist,...

‘I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from...

Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce....

At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary.

‘There is...

Julia has landed a fresh start as a chef at an up-and-coming city restaurant.
Her ex-boyfriend, Nick, is flirting with sobriety...

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as ‘the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years’ (Scotsman), a writer with...

Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended for...

This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience.
From the...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she’ll travel further to protect her secret. But once she’s...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he...

Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves...

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and...

It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition,...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

Lost in Portugal.
Lost to grief.
With nothing but a chimpanzee.
A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life....

A life-changing app.
The woman who created it.
And the man who took the credit.
When Asha starts work on a revolutionary app...