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In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

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.

Neika learned to surf in the sometimes crystal-clear, sometimes opaque green barrels of Cloudy Bay, under the guidance of her father and stepfather. Bruny Island, surfing and the natural world are as much a part of her as her blood and breath. In her twenties now, she has made her way in the world without her mother, who died when Neika was only two. Her path to adulthood was shaped by the love of two adoring fathers, but sitting alongside their love was always a mother-shaped hole. How different would she be if she’d had her mother there to guide her?

Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl, and leaves her with nuns to be given up for adoption. Dawn tries to carry on with her life - a move to England, a marriage, a career, two sons, a divorce - but through it all, she still thinks of the child she had in Venezuela, and of what might have been. When, forty years later, a woman from an internet forum gets in touch, saying that she might be Dawn's long-lost daughter, it stirs up a complicated mix of feelings.

This collection of short stories follows a woman at different points in her life, from the loneliness of childhood, the ardour and confusion of young adulthood, and the mortality we must all eventually face up to. Moral Disorder is Margaret Atwood at her very finest.

Adi has been dropped alone on Isla Santa Flora, a six-hour boat ride from the closest land mass, not a soul around for miles and miles and miles (excepting perhaps the occasional fisherman or shark finner). Adi's armed with maps, rations, a .308 bolt action rifle, a scope with German optics, and more than enough ammunition to rid Santa Flora of its invasive species.

新しく赴任した滝昇の指導のもと、めきめきと力をつけ関西大会への出場を決めた北宇治高校吹奏楽部。全国大会を目指し、日々練習に励む部員のもとへ突然、部を辞めた希美が復帰したいとやってくる。しかし副部長のあすかは頑なにその申し出を拒む。昨年、大量の部員が辞めた際にいったい何があったのか……。“吹部”ならではの悩みと喜びをリアリティたっぷりに描く傑作吹部小説シリーズ第2弾。

北宇治高校吹奏楽部は、過去には全国大会に出場したこともある強豪校だったが、顧問が変わってからは関西大会にも進めていない。しかし、新しく赴任した滝昇の厳しい指導のもと、生徒たちは着実に力をつけていった。実際はソロを巡っての争いや、勉強を優先し部活を辞める生徒も出てくるなど、波瀾万丈の毎日。そんななか、いよいよコンクールの日がやってくる――。少女たちの心の成長を描いた青春エンタメ小説。

凄惨な殺害方法と稚拙な犯行声明文で世間を震撼させた「カエル男連続猟奇殺人事件」。十ヵ月後、事件を担当した精神科医・御前崎教授の自宅が爆破され、その跡からは粉砕・炭化した死体が出てきた。そしてあの犯行声明文が見つかる。カエル男の報復に、渡瀬＆古手川の刑事コンビもふたたび動き出す。さらにカエル男の保護司だった有働さゆりもアクションを起こし……。

輪郭は強烈な輝きを放っているのに、彼の中心は闇に沈み、謎めいたまま――ひったくりの犯人を突き止めた。事件はそれで終わらなかった。私たちは、ある男が歩んだ道を辿り直すことになる。本屋大賞作家、渾身の長編知人の老女がひったくりに遭う瞬間を目にした大学生の春風は、その場に居合わせた高校生の錬とともに咄嗟に犯人を追ったが、間一髪で取り逃がす。

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マンションの13階からフックでぶら下げられた女性の全裸死体。傍らには子供が書いたような稚拙な犯行声明文。これが近隣住民を恐怖と混乱の渦に陥れる殺人鬼「カエル男」による最初の凶行だった。警察の捜査が進展しないなか、第二、第三と殺人事件が発生し、街中はパニックに……。無秩序に猟奇的な殺人を続けるカエル男の正体とは？どんでん返しにつぐどんでん返し。最後の一行まで目が離せない。

なんと、『体育館の殺人』の衝撃から10年！平成のエラリー・クイーンは、短編もここまですごかった本格ミステリ、SF、話題の百合小説まで、※全7編傑作「11文字の檻」（書き下ろし）収録大事件に遭遇したカメラマンが感じた違和感を描く「加速していく」、全面ガラス張りの特異な屋敷での不可能殺人の顛末「噤ヶ森の硝子屋敷」、どんでん返しの切れ味鋭い「your name」

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's Eniiyi's turn—who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family's strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history.

Dickens weaves a tale of mystery, betrayal, and social unrest, centered around the simple, good-hearted Barnaby Rudge, a man with a mysterious past and a deep connection to the chaos brewing in London. As Barnaby’s journey unfolds, he is caught in the whirlwind of political and social upheaval, facing dark secrets, unexpected twists, and a society teetering on the brink of violence.

"The Signal-Man" is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. Also in this volume are The Body Snatcher" which charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice, and Olalla" a tale of vampirism and The Beast Within which features a beautiful woman at its center.

In post-revolutionary France, Jean Valjean is a man on the run. After serving years for stealing a loaf of bread, he’s determined to make a fresh start—only to find himself pursued by the dogged Inspector Javert. But when Valjean takes on the responsibility of raising Cosette, the young daughter of a tragic woman, his path to redemption becomes even more complicated.

Martin Chuzzlewit follows the ambitious and headstrong young Martin as he embarks on a journey that will test his character and shake his beliefs. Driven by greed, selfishness, and a desire for wealth, Martin clashes with his eccentric, self-serving relatives—none more so than his manipulative grandfather, old Martin Chuzzlewit. The novel's twisty narrative takes him across the Atlantic to America, where he is confronted with the greed of the New World, revealing his own flaws in the process.