Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of...

At eighteen, Emma Kenward runs away from her dull Sloane home to try her luck as a painter in Tuscany. Waspish, idealistic and...

A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su...

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and...

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best...

Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum,...

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War....

This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives....

Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience...

Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a...

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple...

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every...

With a failed marriage behind her, La - short for Lavender - moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War...

A wonderfully accessible literary novel, that draws on Iran's rich literary heritage but which always remains engaging and very...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she d rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at...

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the...

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is...

When Polly and Theo Noble book the Casa Luna, near Cortona, for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....

Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...