Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop...

Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by...

Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth...

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be...

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all...

A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.

If it hadn't...

Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics,...

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker,...

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh...

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the...

In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...

Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice...