Contemporary Fiction

Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble....

The remote town of Broome, the desert and the Kimberley coast - Australia's last frontier and a land of ancient beauty. Lily Barton, now 53, is beautiful, adventurous and looking for a life change.

Two branches of the McAllister family lead very different lives on cattle stations in Central Australia. Rob, a stickler for correctness, manages a wealthy, company-owned property while his easygoing brother Sandy struggles to support his wife and son on an impoverished leasehold.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....

There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino....

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken ...

A remarkable story of four sisters, family secrets and discovering what's really important in life....

Aussie Vietnam veteran Ron Milne is on a good thing growing Indian hemp on the tiny Micronesian island of Lan Laroi....

Nicole is starting again. She’s left her old life behind and has just arrived in the sleepy Australian town of Rosella Cove, renting the old cottage by the water....

Hetty’s family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands.....

All three novellas have been released as one edition, set in the ingenious and thrilling world of the Gameshouse....

For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds....

An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney....

平成３年に発生した誘拐事件から30年。当時警察担当だった新聞記者の門田は、旧知の刑事の死をきっかけに被害男児の「今」を知る。再取材を重ねた結果、ある写実画家の存在が浮かび上がる。

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning....

It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth....

The world's toughest car race. Twenty-one days of searing heat and rock-hard desert tracks; of blowouts and breakdowns; of subterfuge and sabotage....

They called him Bane the Bastard - though none said it to his face. Born of treachery, his name a curse, he grew up among the warriors of the Rigante....

When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish....

Norton needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal....

Una historia sobre mujeres que disfrutan de la vida sin pedir permiso. Andrea era una veinteañera impetuosa y atrevida cuando emprendió su gran proyecto vital junto con su mejor amiga, Nieves: un estudio de arquitectura. Dos...

俺たちは踊れる。だからもっと美しい世界に立たせてくれ！

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G.W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den...

Tre giorni dura il ritorno a Trieste di Alma, che dalla città è fuggita per rifarsi una vita lontano, e ora è tornata per raccogliere l’imprevista eredità...

"À quelques mois d'intervalle, la vie m'a rendu témoin des deux événements qui me font le plus peur au monde"...

名探偵は、いつも遅れて現れる――!?ユーモアミステリの永久定番〈鯉ケ窪学園〉シリーズに新たなバディ登場！

九歳の夏休み、少女は殺された。あまりに無邪気な殺人者によって、あっけなく――。こうして、ひとつの死体をめぐる、幼い兄弟の悪夢のような四日間の冒険が始まった。次々に訪れる危機。彼らは大人たちの追及から逃れることができるのか？

閉店が決まった洋菓子店で、なぜか店主と常連客のマダムがお菓子教室を始めることに。生徒はあなた一人だけ。参加条件は悩みがあること。

やなせ先生夫妻の秘書が語るふたりのこと2025年春NHK朝ドラ「あんぱん」のモデルとなったやなせ夫妻に20年寄り添った秘書がはじめて語るおふたりの暮らし、生活、仕事に思い出…。

世界的画家が88歳になって到達した境地！飽きることは、「自由になる」こと。世界的画家は新鮮に飽きるために人生で遊ぶー山田詠美（作家）

医者、患者、病気、医学部、医学研究、医療。生まれてから死ぬまで、人は病院と医者から離れられない。「医」と「病」をめぐる６篇の傑作短編小説集。

ママには三人の恋人がいる――。ママの愛を、世間は「過ち」と呼ぶのかもしれない。正解がないから――恋は楽しいのか、つらいのか？　心揺さぶる長編恋愛小説。

綱引きで、人生再起動！　商店街から世界を目指せ――　一本の綱を引き合い勝敗を決める「綱引き」。五輪の正式種目だった時代もある、歴としたスポーツ競技だ。

Il mondo devastato dell'Undici settembre, le inquiete solitudini della famiglia di un sopravvissuto al crollo delle torri e la paradossale normalità di un terrorista che si prepara al martirio. Scendendo con altre migliaia di persone le scale della Torre nord del World Trade Center, Keith Neudecker riesce a mettersi in salvo pochi minuti prima del crollo. Ha i vestiti impregnati di sangue e di cenere, la faccia cosparsa di frammenti di vetro, e negli occhi immagini che non potrà mai dimenticare.

Linnéa har ett tråkigt men stabilt jobb som hotellreceptionist. Snabbt måste hon komma på ett kreativt sätt att dra in pengar till hyran. Problemet är bara att Linnéa – trots sitt blomlika namn – knappt kan se skillnad på en pelargon och en monstera. Och mitt bland sticklingarna och spaljéerna dyker en het trädgårdsmästare upp och ställer till det ytterligare i Linnéas annars så ordnade och principfasta tillvaro.