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The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who...

The haunting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family. The year is 1976. Syvert is on his way back to his wife and two sons after a work trip when his car breaks down outside Arendal and he has to spend the night in the city. It is winter and bitterly cold; ice...

Why do we, as South Asian Muslim women, make the choices we do? In Womanhood, Tahmina Begum intimately traces the lives of three women across eight years - each living at a crossroads, each shaped by the contradictions and richness of their heritage, each weighing the cost of being a good woman...

Automne 1910. Voici longtemps que Sherlock Holmes et le Dr John Watson combattent R'luhlloig, l'Esprit caché lié au professeur James Moriarty. L'Europe glisse vers la guerre, et un autre conflit, d'ampleur cosmique, approche de son point culminant ; en une nuit, les membres du Club Diogène connaissent une mort atroce. Holmes soupçonne un espion allemand qui travaille pour R'luhlloig… Retranché sur la côte anglaise, le duo est confronté à une nouvelle menace. Trois femmes ont disparu de la ville de Newford.

An electrifying, singular debut novel about a minimally verbal woman in working class London who falls in with a volatile man, leading to an act of violence that upends her life It’s 1999, and Gloria has finished school for good. She spends her days wandering the streets and parks, watching...

Welcome to the Friday Bookshop, a cozy little bookstore tucked inside a rustic train station north of Tokyo. Rumor has it, you’ll find the perfect book there—one that you need at that particular moment, even if you don’t know it yourself.... When college student Fumiya visits the Friday...

He’s running for his life. And he’s running out of time. Jay has been hunted since he was twenty years old. A contract on his life has been traded like a commodity, rising and falling with Bitcoin for decades. On the run once again with no passport and airmiles as his only currency, Jay will...

A new novel from the much-loved, Miles Franklin shortlisted Favel Parrett. In the tradition of Claire Keegan and Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable story of love and betrayal through the eyes of a child. The rhythm drew me in, so even though I did not understand all of the words, I felt like I...

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. Tara has returned to...

Maggie might almost think Jake was perfect, except that he wants to tear down her home to build a golf course. Maggie Moran is an eighth-generation Moran to live in the cottage by the sea. She arrived from Dublin as a teenager to live with her grandparents and, since then, has carved out a...

From two-time Leacock Medal winner and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a slim parable of a novel that imagines a world where literature rules—and one humble writer discovers that success can be the strangest fiction of all. What if novelists were the new rock stars? Malcolm Forde is a...

A "sultry and evocative" novel about the secrets and entanglements between a group of friends holidaying in the south of France. Since they first met at university twenty years ago, Maggie and Will have spent the last two weeks of every summer in France with their close friends, Lydia and Roland...

From New York Times bestselling author of the “magnificent” (Fresh Air), “propulsive” (People), and “profound” (Vogue) Ask Again, Yes, a sweeping multigenerational saga inspired by the author's own family history, following eleven brothers as they are set on different paths between...

A dazzling literary debut that reimagines The Odyssey and asks what power do we have to control our own fate when destiny feels pre-determined and the systems of the world are broken? Eurick Ulysse is irrevocably trapped: by poverty, by class, and by his immigrant parents’ expectations...

Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has...

Während ein Feuer unaufhaltsam durch das Moor fegt und alles darin zu zerstören droht, macht die Feuerwehr einen schrecklichen Fund: eine Leiche im Kofferraum eines verlassenen Wagens. Kurz darauf wird eine ermordete Frau entdeckt, ihr Anblick verstörend, denn sie wurde wie eine Braut hergerichtet. Zwei Tote innerhalb kurzer Zeit rufen Ermittlerin Malia Gold auf den Plan. Die Marschlandschaft kennt sie schon seit Kindertagen und auch ihre Mutter Ruth Sichler, die im Ort als Fährtenleserin bekannt ist, hilft ihr bei den Nachforschungen.

鬼道衆の末裔として、秘密裏に依頼された「亡者祓い」を請け負う鬼龍浩一。企業で起きた不可解な事件の解決に乗り出すが……。恐るべき敵の正体は？ 傑作エンターテインメント。

日本国軍から、細菌戦の特殊部隊との同行を求められたアメリカ人ジャーナリスト、キャサリン・コウリーは、九州東南部の歓楽都市ビッグ・バンで発生した感染症の説明を受けた。

Ein psychologisches Drama über Obsession, Schuld und Selbstzerstörung – ungekürzt gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: In "Der Amokläufer" entfaltet Stefan Zweig auf eindrucksvolle Weise das innere Drama eines Mannes, der an der eigenen Leidenschaft und Ohnmacht zerbricht. Die Geschichte spielt im kolonialen Südostasien: Ein europäischer Arzt verliert in einer schicksalhaften Begegnung mit einer Frau die Kontrolle über sich – und gerät in einen Zustand manischer Besessenheit, den Zweig mit dem Begriff "Amok" beschreibt.

Als die ersten Flocken fallen, neigt sich das Jahr in der Freitagsbuchhandlung dem Ende zu – der vierte Roman der Freitagsbuchhandlung von Sawako Natori Der Jahreswechsel rückt immer näher, und der Winter bringt eine so ungewöhnliche Kälte mit sich, dass die vertrauten Abläufe ins Wanken...