Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an...

Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting,...

Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself -...

'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are'

Ariella, unhappy in love,...

An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’...

Soon to be a major film adaptation starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes

David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a...

The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent...

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic.

Omar...

The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this...

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special....

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and...

When Pearl Tull’s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three...

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every...

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

Power
Two clever, stylish and ambitious women are fighting for control of a multi-million cosmetics empire.

Mystery
What is...

The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an...

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

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families....

What does it take to be a family?

Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything...

What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts...

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

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants.

It begins for Basil 'Banger'...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

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...