Literary Fiction

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate....

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....

This book is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King....

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

In a post-apocalyptic America, a father and his young son walk toward the coast. Their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence....

Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes.

Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire....

Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels of all time....

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing....

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party....

A Year of Marvellous Ways is the much anticipated and utterly beguiling new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international best seller When God Was a Rabbit....

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields....

No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model.

小学生のとき、担任の先生と町の外からやって来た男が駆け落ちしたのを忘れられない主婦。東京でバツイチ子持ちの恋人との関係に寂しさを覚える看護師。認知症の義母に夫とのセックスレスの悩みを打ち明ける管理栄養士。

Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers, and his numerous bestselling books include The Crow Road, Complicity and the ‘Culture’ sci-fi series. Collected here are three of his best works, as heard on BBC Radio.

Printemps : l'histoire d'un prisonnier innocent qui prépare l'évasion la plus extraordinaire depuis celle du comte de Monte-Cristo… Été : un adolescent découvre le passé monstrueux d'un vieillard et joue avec lui une variante terrible du chat et de la souris… Le grand Stephen King transcende l'horreur avec son style singulièrement entraînant, sa façon imagée de rendre le décor et les personnages, et ses intrigues haletantes, suspendues au bord du gouffre. Différentes saisons : des joyaux de l'épouvante.

Mayfair, 1910. At the age of 90, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor – a young man named Silas Bradley, who claims to have met her during the Crimean War 55 years ago. But how can this be? And how does the elusive Jean Frawley connect their two lives? Nightingale is a luminous tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women's work.

Ferrare, Italie du Nord, 1941. Lili et Esti s'aiment comme des soeurs. Malgré la montée du fascisme, elles forment une famille heureuse avec Theo, le jeune fils d'Esti. Mais quand l'Allemagne envahit le nord de l'Italie, les deux amies, de confession juive, décident de fuir à la campagne pour rejoindre la Résistance. Lorsqu'une catastrophe frappe le couvent où elles se sont réfugiées, Esti, grièvement blessée, demande l'impossible à son amie : sauver son fils. Terrifiée, Lili se lance alors dans un voyage épique à travers l'Italie.

駆け落ちの最中に、思いがけずはぐれてしまった栄治と紀久子。栄治は不運にも事件に巻き込まれ、生死の境をさまよった結果、記憶を失ってしまい、別人としての人生を送りはじめる。

松本勝男は、敗戦直後に祖父と母を喪い、妹と生き別れた。戦争孤児となった少年は、死線をさまよう苦難を経て、中国人教師に拾われ、中国人「陸一心」として育てられる。しかし、成人した一心を文化大革命の波が襲う。

恋と仕事を同時に失い深く傷ついた美菜代は、自分を裏切った元彼への復讐を心に誓い、凄腕だと噂される復讐屋・成海慶介の事務所を訪れる。しかし、セレブからのみの依頼を受ける成海には復讐の代行を断られてしまう。

迫られる攘夷か、開国か――。嘉永六年(一八五三年)六月、浦賀にその姿を現した四隻のアメリカ軍艦。強大な武力をもって日本に開国を求める艦隊司令長官・ペリーの対応に幕府は苦慮していた。

John’s House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John’s haven. He is alone, but never lonely; he is here now, but neither remembers nor longs for a before. In his House, John is safe and untroubled. But then a terrible shadow creature breaks in—and it wants him out. Pushed from the House, John falls into the light… And finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles, the first person to ever come back from the other side.

Tragicómica y melancólica, esta novela nos presenta un mundo plúmbeo y totalitario, dominado por fuerzas ciegas e impersonales. Un escenario humano desolador en el que la inteligencia es anulada por la fuerza bruta y la violencia, y en el que el caos arrastra irremediablemente a unos personajes que, entre el conformismo y la insignificancia, no aciertan a crear un orden nuevo menos cruel y menos gris. El estallido de violencia no alcanza siquiera el rango de revolución y la vida transcurre, en esta pequeña y anónima ciudad húngara, sumida en una atmósfera de terror y amarga ironía.

Euphoria is Lily King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately their lives.

Le monde a oublié son nom. Il est temps de connaître son histoire. Harriet Constable voue son premier roman à la mise en lumière des artistes femmes oubliées de l'Histoire, en racontant l'histoire vraie d'Anna Maria della Pietà, violoniste vénitienne d'exception du XVIIIe siècle ayant largement contribué à l'œuvre de Vivaldi avant d'être effacée par son mentor.

When war sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be the same. Eight-year-old Olive trembles when spoken to and won't say how she got a bruised lip, and her brother Peter seems angry at the entire world. With whispers of spies in the village and the children's precious futures at stake, Dodie must decide who to trust before everything she's built crumbles to ashes around her.

迷惑系給金泥棒として職場で疎まれている「ペンペン」。鬱屈した毎日がついに限界を迎えたとき、壊れた言葉が壊れた風景を呼び起こす。リリカル系日常破壊小説、爆誕！第61回文藝賞受賞作。

Leo Sailer erbt ein marodes Grand Hotel am Kochelsee. Er will den alten Kasten, den sein Urgroßvater vor über 100 Jahren gebaut hat, unter allen Umständen retten, ganz im Gegensatz zu der jungen Managerin Julia Dehne. Als ein verschollenes Meisterwerk von Kandinsky auftaucht, scheint das die Rettung zu sein, aber damit gehen die Probleme erst richtig los.