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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.

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。

When young academic Clara Wilson gets the opportunity to interview the acclaimed novelist Christina Darnell in Belfast, she anticipates a major biographical scoop for her academic book. Over a few months, a relationship forms between two women who live their lives in books. Clara, writing her first, leans in and learns from a writer finishing her final book.

Raj Ladlani is one of thousands in LA: an unemployable actor. He has reasons to believe he is spectacularly talented - a legend in every way but for the success. His anonymous life - working at Yogurtland, obsessively reading Vanity Fair, and fantasizing about stardom - comes to an end when he answers a job ad detailing a relentless, laughable parade of menial responsibilities for a 'Hollywood Family'. So begins the astonishing decline and fall of Raj Ladlani.

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……。

As the county suffers the worst heatwave in living memory, at Snare House preparations for a party are in full swing. Only Margaret, long-time ward of the family and Joanie's closest friend, knows the truth: Joanie won't go to Oxford. Exiled to a tumbledown lodge in the woods with her estranged father and his colony of magpies, she finds herself becoming wild: her dreams vivid and terrifying, waking with dirt on the soles of her feet.

Mary is struggling with her memory. She recounts the lives of her and her friends growing up in York during The Blair Years. Tensions rise over the Iraq War, and they find themselves out of their depth in the protest movement. As they grow up, they follow very different paths, coming into conflict with each other and the changing fortunes of the nation. All the while, Mary questions what she understands to be real, both in history and in her own life.

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.

In a lighthouse on a crumbling coastline, two greying wives keep the fires lit, reading futures in fish scales and sending signals into the dark, while a monster with an almost human face circles their garden, sly and hungry. Further up the coast, a woman experiencing strange cravings after an intense heartbreak feels herself pulled to the light at the cliff's edge, where she might finally be able to satisfy her hunger.

Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity. Interwoven with real recipes and magic realism, the novel centres on Thai-English first-time mum Lin who, desperate to connect with her dead mother, travels across Thailand with her baby to find answers, lost recipes, and her mother's ghost, uncovering links to a devastating political past instead.

When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind. One person enters their new country, the other stays trapped at home. Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at ten and never speak to their other selves again. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather dies and her Korean instance calls her home for the funeral.

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！

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。

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.

East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who happens to have the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started dying of what has recently been named AIDS. So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again. There's no way Mark wouldn't give her a chance to say goodbye, would he? But to her disappointment - and increasingly, her concern - Mark doesn't appear. Renata has other problems, too.