Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

A moving book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel...or a novel broken up into...

A striking, psychologically astute debut about the aftermath of trauma

Can Vivian live ecstatically, after what has been done...

She was never meant to be an ordinary woman, reading out her history as if it belonged to us. She was more than that. She was the...

'Does the world seem right, to you?'

Years ago, Dana Mayer had a vision of a better world: one where women are in charge. Now...

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared...

An emotionally powerful novel about four women and the incredible strength it takes to live a life made invisible by...

In a smart Parisian suburb, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and...

It is June and our ten-year-old heroine is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach...

Home is where the heart is...

Paradise House, with its gorgeous views of the sea, was the perfect home for the Baxter girls to...

Jane is trying.

She's been trying for a baby, with increasing desperation as her thirties sail by.

Now, she's trying to...

Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she...

'This is where she sleeps. A cupboard. A bedroom. A windowless box.'

Sisters Dolly and Tala have never felt further from home....

A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend,...

A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings...

A winter cruise sounds like a dream come true. But this gift from Grace's ex-husband is less a selfless act and more an effort to...

In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters,...

Despite sending him letters ever since she was thirteen, Taliah Abdallat never thought she'd ever really meet Julian Oliver. But...

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find...

Pru is on her own. But then, so are plenty of other people. And while the loneliness can be overwhelming, surely she'll find a...

An exuberant black comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously...

Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for...

An unsettling, gripping and original novel by Jessica Fellowes, author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning Mitford...

A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed...

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms...

Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she keeps to her routines and...

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now...

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

Funny, smart, damaged, Tom is lost in the machinery of the British mental health system, talking to a voice no one else can hear;...

Lorna's world is small but safe.

She loves her daughter and the two of them are all that matter. But after nearly twenty...