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

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

北宇治高校吹奏楽部の活躍を描いた人気青春エンタメシリーズ、初の短編集。葵が部活を辞めた本当の理由が明かされる「あの子には才能がある」、葉月が秀一を好きになったきっかけとその後の顛末をつづった「好きな人の好きな人」、「とある冬の日」では、秀一が久美子についに告白!? など、北宇治吹部の面々の、甘酸っぱくてちょっぴり切ないヒミツの話をたっぷり盛り込んだ、必読の一冊！

Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

杉原爽香は、病院で居合わせた余命いくばくもない老人・汐見忠士から、米川由衣という女性への遺言を託されてしまう。一方、高校一年の笹井友美は、以前家庭教師だった篠原純代と街中で再会。誘われるまま、純代と行動を共にするが……。

M is a woman suffering with chronic pain. She has been for as long as she can remember. No one can see it. So, no one believes it. Desperately seeking relief for the pain no one wants to treat she turns to a series of increasingly unorthodox treatments to find a cure.

40万部突破の大人気シリーズ！「心神喪失者の行為は罰しない」刑法第39条vs連続殺人鬼救うべきは誰か。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「カエル男連続猟奇連続殺人事件」。事件のキーマンである有働さゆりは医療刑務所から脱走し、行方知れずのままだった－－。

猛練習も日常となり、雰囲気もかなり仕上がってきた矢先、北宇治高校吹奏楽部に衝撃が走った。副部長で、部の要と言える三年生のあすかが、全国大会を前に部活を辞めるという噂が流れてきたのだ。母親との確執から、受験勉強を理由に退部を迫られているらしい。さらには、楽器に対する複雑な心境をあすかは久美子に打ち明ける。はたして大会の行方は――。“吹部”青春エンタメ小説の決定版！

裏社会の人間が次々と惨殺された「ブルーマーダー事件」。その渦中で暴力団組長・皆藤が行方不明になっていた。組長の妻は、彼も巻き込まれたのではというのだが。（表題作）　マンションの一室で男が合成麻薬による不審死を遂げた。

Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement—but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is also an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, then sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear.

In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the few survivors of a terrible tragedy. Their only choice now is, somehow, to become a family. Five years earlier, Opal and her husband James arrive in the small mining community of Silver Valley, drawn by promises of fortune and independence. There they meet Baron Rowe, the charismatic visionary who controls the community with an iron fist.

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.

Celestial Lights is a portrait of a complicated man whose vision and unparalleled understanding of the universe don't always translate into stellar relationships on Earth. It explores the sacrifices required to achieve greatness—but more importantly, the idea that greatness is not always what it seems. This breathtaking tale which reveals how personal choices can send a world spinning, will make every reader lift their head to the night sky and marvel while also cherishing the connections that make our planet home.

Suzanna Klein spends every Saturday at Hillcrest prison, where her mother is serving a life sentence. Many leave Hillcrest and do not return—women who are released or transferred, family members who stop visiting. Suzanna’s grandmother has never visited and is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s decision to aid in a politically motivated robbery that led to a man’s death. At an early age Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever—to stay by choice, not by curse—and the book traces her quest to remain in a place everyone else wants to leave.

池袋の繁華街。雑居ビルの空き室で、全身20カ所近くを骨折した暴力団組長の死体が見つかった。さらに半グレ集団のOBと不良中国人が同じ手口で殺害される。池袋署の刑事・姫川玲子は、裏社会を恐怖で支配する怪物の存在に気づく――。

The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend, Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail “from the future and the past simultaneously” and who “reenchants the air” when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing disappointments, secret yearnings, and a creeping sense of opportunities wasted, well, that's nobody's fault but his own. Jenny Parrish is forty. She has two lovely sons, a devoted if somewhat hapless husband, and recently is hugely successful in her dream vocation. It's a perfect life! So perfect, she can't help but wonder sometimes whether it's all going to come crashing down.

House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two brothers and a Jewish girl are drawn together in a fateful, tangled dance of desire and rivalry. Their destinies entwine further in the desolate Norlag labor camp, buried above the Arctic Circle, where an enigmatic encounter in the House of Meetings will leave indelible marks on all three. What begins as a brief, forbidden tryst lingers long after the brothers’ release, haunting their every step.

It's the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, four girls - each hailing from single-mother, multi-sibling families, form a band. Friends since they were children, they consider themselves 'forgettable girls' - poor, not particularly clever, distracted at school, disengaged and disillusioned from the other kids, and desperate to escape the fates of their mothers, who seem locked into a life of minimum-wage jobs and domestic drudgery.

Ein literarisches Meisterwerk von der Wucht eines Kazuo Ishiguro und Haruki Murakami. In einem alternativen England, 1979. Die Drillinge Vincent, Lawrence und William wachsen in einem Heim für Waisen auf. Das alte Herrenhaus ist abgelegen und weitläufig, die Jungen erhalten Privatunterricht und es fehlt ihnen scheinbar an nichts. Doch warum dürfen sie keinen Kontakt zu Kindern außerhalb des Heims haben? Warum müssen sie täglich eine besondere Pille schlucken? Und warum träumen alle drei regelmäßig von einem kleinen Mädchen in einem dunklen Wald?