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Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the...

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Una niña enfervorizada espera a su padre, un mafioso dominicano al que idolatra y que siempre llega sin avisar, como los monstruos en las películas de terror. Papi aparece, desaparece y reaparece, cargado de dólares y un sinfín de coches, novias y regalos. Encarna, como ha señalado el crítico Juan Duchesne Winter, al «neomacho global» y triunfador de los trópicos, que provoca alucinaciones en todos los que lo rodean.

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自衛隊の絆が、日本を戦場にする―。公安捜査官・純也が日本のタブーと対峙する！小日向純也が率いる公安部隊「Ｊ分室」。ある日防衛大学校の卒業生が相次いで死亡した。

From GMA Book Club pick and Women’s Prize finalist Angie Cruz, a heartfelt novel about a woman who returns to Italy to search for her missing friend, only to uncover unsettling truths about herself When Stefania doesn’t reply to Bella’s text, Bella immediately knows something is wrong. She...

From an award-winning author, wildly inventive stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives External pressures abound in modern-day life: familial expectations, the homogenizing forces of work and society, unyielding political realities. But the characters in Chen Chuncheng’s eerily...

An elegant and harrowing tale of a handful of London strangers whose lives become irrevocably entangled by a series of random events, from one of our masters of psychological suspense. On an ordinary day, Sam cycles to work and kills a man. A step into the road. A second too soon. That’s all...

“Casually dazzling . . . thoroughly riveting.”—Entertainment Weekly The luminous and unforgettable first novel about an amnesiac professor that introduced an astonishing voice in fiction, now available in a beautiful paperback edition for a new generation to discover. Samson Greene, a...

The debut novel from Irish playwright, actor, and poet, Emmet Kirwan. 

A daring debut that captures “elegant depictions of lives and places…full of the quiet power…of a fever dream” (The Los Angeles Times Book Review) Mary Caponegro’s The Star Café is a bold and original collection that explores how we experience the world through language, through the...

A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist. It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians...

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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A luminous debut novel following a biologist intent on finding the elusive hermit beetle, whose life is upended by the eccentric elderly woman she encounters while deep in the Norwegian woods Thirty-four-year-old biologist Eva Wist is on track for a PhD when she experiences...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.”—New York Times Book Review The acclaimed debut collection from the author of Chain Gang All Stars; a piercingly raw and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like...

日中諜報戦勃発違法すれすれの捜査で因縁の事件を解決するのはどっちだ!日本に売られた子供＜黒孩子＞を利用し、中国犯罪集団が非合法活動を行ったブラックチェイン事件から三年。生き残った者達に事件についての脅迫電話がかかって来た。

FROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE FORTUNE MEN ‘Her mother’s heart is a battleground. It is Hiroshima, Mogadishu, Gaza, it is scorched earth and electric air. It is, to her, a heart that has never known rest or ease, only war.’ After a chance encounter with the man who killed her...

Tender Is the Flesh meets I Who Have Never Known Men in this bold, speculative debut set aboard a spaceship harboring the genetically modified descendants of Earth. When one of their own commits a radical act of sabotage, their mission to find a new home for humanity is threatened, calling into...