Coming of Age

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend....

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki....

From the instant New York Times-bestselling author Casey McQuiston comes the TikTok sensation Red, White & Royal Blue....

In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question on what it means to love....   

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008.
The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master....

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood....

Two friends. Ten summer trips. Their last chance to fall in love....

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen....

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

"Trust only those who earn it." A sentiment I follow without direction but holds more consequence than ever before. One decision, five lives, three futures. This is what's at stake....

Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful books.... 

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'....

Emmett returns home to pick up his little brother Billy, tie up his late father's estate and get out of town for good....

In the winter of 1926, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death....

He's addicted to booze. She's addicted to sex... staying sober is only half the battle. No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most....

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom.....

An abandoned child becomes a singular inspiration to the mythology of Muirwood in an epic series by Jeff Wheeler, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Muirwood and Kingfountain novels....

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

 A Mirror Made of Rain is a devastating coming-of-age novel about the wounds of inherited trauma....

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak....

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham....

To their Mississippi community, the death of Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy's distraught mother, Caroline, it's an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy's troubled mind, killing her father was the only way she knew to save the two people she loves most in the world....

Set within a contemporary Black community in Southern California, this is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret....

Si sigues tu brújula interior, llegarás a tu destino con los ojos cerrados. Aunque aparentemente tiene una vida perfecta, la protagonista, una mujer joven y madre de familia, se siente agotada y le cuesta conciliar trabajo y familia. No es feliz y se pregunta por qué. Un día, mientras pasea por el bosque y recapacita sobre su vida, conoce a una anciana que le habla de las "cuatro preguntas de la vida", que tienen el poder de cambiarlo todo para mejor.

Primo romanzo e primo pubblicato col suo vero nome nel 1891, questa storia d'amore e morte è un'ottima occasione per la giovane scrittrice per costrire dettagliatamente la cornice ideale delle sue opere, la natura e la gente di Sardegna, che diventeranno in seguiti i veri protagonisti della sua scrittura. 

I corpi minori sono corpi celesti di dimensioni ridotte: asteroidi, meteore, comete, ma in questo romanzo "minori" sono tutti i corpi osservati sotto la lente del desiderio. Desiderio che fa gravitare i personaggi attorno ai sogni e alle ambizioni di una vita, o solo di una stagione. Come accade al protagonista, che all'inizio della storia ha vent'anni, più di un talento ma poca perseveranza. Di una cosa però è sicuro, vuole andarsene da Rozzano, percorrere in senso inverso i tre chilometri e mezzo di via dei Missaglia, lasciarsi alle spalle l'insignificanza e la marginalità.

Von Gewalt, von Zärtlichkeit und von der Macht der Befreiung. Juli wächst in einer Vorzeigefamilie auf: Die Eltern sind Rechtsanwälte, sie ist Klassenbeste. Doch in der Kleinstadtvilla herrscht das Grauen. Der Vater drillt die Kinder auf Leistung, prügelt sie und seine Frau. Juli wird älter, fordert ein Ende der Gewalt, deren Realität von der Mutter vehement abgestritten wird. Einzig ihre Brüder und eine Maus geben Halt.

"Los deseos no son solo palabras" es una novela basada en hechos reales, sobre la vida de una mujer convencida de las segundas oportunidades. Crecer junto a una bruja alimenta a la protagonista a dejar su Veracruz natal y embarcarse en una odisea que la llevará primero a la ciudad de México y luego a media docena de países diferentes. De la noche a la mañana, con 17 años y una maleta, deja todo lo que conoce para convertirse en la mujer más bella de su país.

Quien no busca nada, no encuentra nada. Desde que su vida cambió de la noche a la mañana, Dot Watson se ha apartado del mundo. Pasa los días encerrada, trabajando en la oficina de objetos perdidos del metro de Londres. Allí se dedica en cuerpo y alma a su labor de guardiana de objetos extraviados, y su mayor alegría es poder devolver alguno a su dueño. Y es que detrás de su fachada espinosa late un corazón muy grande. Contra todo pronóstico, también logra encontrar algo que no esperaba: a sí misma y su vida real. 

Una fría madrugada de primavera, Santiago Albiol coge a su único hijo, de apenas cinco años, lo sube al coche y emprende un viaje, sin destino y a la desesperada, que le lleva a cruzar media España. Es una huida: Santiago acaba de matar a su esposa. Dos años después de ese luctuoso hecho, Jorge Canal, arquitecto y escritor en ciernes, se decide a retomar su afición por la escritura—abandonada desde la época universitaria—con la pretensión de escribir una novela que cuente la historia de Santiago.

In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neandertal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the godlike Jemen leader known as the Old Woman of the Mountain. According to Trogon’s vision, only one person knows the location of that burial cave.  

Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.

American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters.

Cada mes de abril, cuando el viento sopla desde el mar y se mezcla con el aroma de las lilas, Landon Carter recuerda su último año en el instituto Beaufort. Era 1958 y Landon ya había tenido una o dos novias. Juraba incluso, que ya se había enamorado. Desde luego, la última persona de la que se imaginó que lo haría era Jamie Sullivan, la hija del pastor baptista del pueblo. 

Jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d'Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L'enfant qu'elle met au monde meurt en naissant. 

Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert—a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption—he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories.

For Samantha Miller's young fans—her 'girls'—she's everything they want to be. She's an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their 'truth'. And her career is booming: she's just hit three million followers, her new book Chaste has gone straight to the top of the best-seller lists and she's appearing at sell-out events. Determined to speak her truth and bare all to her adoring fans, she's written an essay about her sexual awakening as a teenager, with her female best friend, Lisa.

I ragazzi che non fanno l'ora di religione si chiamano Hossein, Amal, Safia, Michele, Meng e sono bengalesi, egiziani, italiani, cinesi. La protagonista di questa storia insegna loro una materia che si definisce a partire dal suo contrario, una materia che ai consigli di classe non conta nulla, che non ha programmi e, nel caso dell'istituto professionale in cui ci troviamo, non ha nemmeno un'aula.