Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

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

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two...

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the...

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst...

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...

Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'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...

'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera

Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England...

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,...

'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian

Liam Pennywell has spent most of his...

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

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

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram.

He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears...

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

In a small town in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist...

Summer, 1965.

Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window.

His visitor is Jasper...

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

It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their...

Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in the middle of London...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and...

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an...