Fiction Realism

He paid for the latest tech. He got something he didn't expect.When Ethan's Realism Level Nine robot arrives at his door, he tells himself she is practical. An investment. A machine to help run his business. Nothing more.But he didn't expect her to cry. Or bleed. Or dream. And a lifelike robot...

El murmullo de las abejas llega ahora como una audioserie narrada con más de 70 voces (incluidas las de Sofía Segovia y su nieta Elena), un diseño sonoro monumental y música original que dan vida a una versión fresca, innovadora e inmersiva, que le una voltereta a la entrañable novela de Sofía Segovia.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold meets Spirited Away in this charming Korean bestselling fantasy sensation about a doctor whose new apothecary leads him on an unexpected healing journey among both the living and the dead. Meet Seungbeom: thirty-three, male, demoted doctor, and Sujeong: sixty-eight...

“In my religion, if you walk more than seven steps with a stranger, you become companions.” Siblings Freddie and Lucky are on the Titanic for its fateful maiden voyage. But will they find each other? And who will survive? Jamila Gavin is one of our greatest writers” – S.F...

From bestselling dark folklore and fantasy author A. B. Poranek comes a lush reimaging of Grimm's "Cinderella" with a dark parallel faerie world that influences – and plays havoc – with our own. Wisteria - "Wish" - an aspiring painter, catches the attention of the king's brother and finds...

When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better” - someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one’s life comes to the fore - sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won’t find.

Art and life. Each the mirror of the other. This then is the classic definition of what ‘Realism’ as a writing form really is. Some might call it a fancy term for the mundane day to day pursuits but in the hands of an author it comes alive. We are drawn into characters and landscapes that we can empathize with, we can, metaphorically speaking, help shoulder their burden, be on the long trail with them whatever the landscapes, the hurdles, incidents and other people may place in their literary way.