Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Set in a horrifying 'fifteen minutes in the future' United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment...

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset...

What Shankly said isn't even half-true. In fact, it's bollocks. Football isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing...

Danny Malooley's life is falling apart.

He's a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn't spoken since the...

- Employed (you have frequent nightmares about your job)
- Single and fabulous (swiping Tinder in your pyjamas while your best...

Catchlights sets the innocence of childhood against the violence of adulthood, the joys of a passion against the horrors of an...

Set in the final days before a shocking tragedy forces an elite boarding school to shut its doors for good, Ellie Eaton's The...

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all...

Change is afoot in the usually sleepy village of Risingdale. Gerald Gaunt, headmaster of the primary school for over thirty...

Living on the crest of a highly successful career, he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything – except what he...

A thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices.

Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about...

Beginnings, middles and ends; Peggy, Serena, Natasha and Bel. This is the room that binds them, this is how consequences work . ....

An extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of secrets within an American family, from beneath the plastic...

Brussels. A hive of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. No wonder the European Commission is keen to...

James Darke is dreading the first family Christmas without his wife Suzy. Engulfed by grief, his grudging preparations are...

Written in the last year of Roth's life, this is the impassioned story of a young man's love affair with literature, and with his...

The Thing Is . . .

A novel, a confession, a poem, an autofiction, a commonplace book, a prose poem.

By turns serious and...

Brighton, 1950s. When Daisy got married, she knew nothing of a police wife's struggles - the way secrecy and suspicion seep into...

Jenna Walker has suddenly found herself with no job, no boyfriend, nowhere to live - and she's been wondering for a while now if,...

1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He...

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily married for more than thirty...

James Darke is dreading the first family Christmas without his wife Suzy. Engulfed by grief, his grudging preparations are...

Glory arrives back in Peckham, from her seemingly-glamorous life in LA, to mourn the sudden death of her father, and finds her...

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny...

A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women's...

Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

Remember you...

There once was ...

a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.

a man who...

From widely acclaimed comedian and author, Shappi Khorsandi, comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but...

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's...

Sometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right…

Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever...