Coming of Age

 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love....

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

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....

Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends....

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

Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching....

From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years....  

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

Ten-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, Pari is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness. When their father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of work, Abdullah is determined not to be separated from her....

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....

In New Delhi in the 1980s, Aahan Sikand and Rajesh Kumar are childhood playmates. They have been brought up under the care of the same woman, living in the same house, but with starkly different realities....

Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language....

Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself....

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....

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....

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby....

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept....

Things keep slipping up for Shy....

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 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....   

Discover The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake's whip-smart dark academia sensation. Six young magicians are chosen for greatness. But as they study to become the best among rivals, the stakes are higher than they know....

Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway....

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life....

Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater.....

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

Set in the late 80s, early 90s, a time when feminism meant women could behave like men, and the gay community in London were coming out of the closet. A time of exciting change as Gen Xers were leading the way towards 3rd wave feminism, the ‘Women can have it all’ approach. That was the plan anyway. London was feeding the world the first inklings of ‘Cool Britannia’ Isabel is caught between the old static world of female conformity and the new world of female masturbation & gay porn. Under the wing of her big sister’s strident feminism, Isabel attempts to be a modern teen. 

FALDNE ENGLE er en fascinerende fortælling om barnevenskaber, seksuel vækkelse og menneskelig skrøbelighed. Om en nation i forandring og om kampen for kvindernes stemmeret.

Januar 1901, dagen efter dronning Victorias død: To familier mødes ved deres tilstødende gravsteder på en fashionabel London-kirkegård. Waterhouse-familien hylder den afdøde dronning og holder fast i victorianske traditioner; Coleman-familien ser frem til et mere moderne samfund. Med gensidig modvilje knyttes familierne uløseligt til hinanden, da deres døtre bliver venner bag gravstenene. Og hvad værre er, de bliver også venner med graverens snavsede søn.

Diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumors, Stacey Fortune abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother’s scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home she’s known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is cursed. With her future all but sealed, Crow decides to go down in a blaze of unforgettable glory by writing a memoir that will raise eyebrows and drop jaws. She’ll dig up “the dirt” on her family tree, including the supposed curse, and uncover the truth about her mysterious, absent father.

She was born to be a queen, yet she’s nothing more than a political pawn. With no name and no place to call her own, she’s doing her best to hold on to the only thing that belongs to her and her alone—her soul. A difficult task, given that she was kept alive for the sole purpose of being given to the formidable King Rowan of Northrend to fulfill the treaty signed by the three kingdoms of Greatland long before she was born. 

Faulkner’s second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner’s quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare glimpse into the author himself. The novel explores questions of sex and sexuality, as well as the societal role of the artist. Inspired by his own participation in the arts community in New Orleans, Mosquitoes is an engaging and delightful novel from one of America’s greatest writers.

Grace never thought she'd have to return home to Floral Street. Having spent most of her life building a successful career in London, she's done everything she possibly can to avoid the flower stall that's been in her family for generations. But when tragedy hits, she's got no choice. It's time to face the demons of the past and support her family. Faith has returned home after years travelling the world. She thought that her life would be different after a trip across the globe, but as she settles back into life in her childhood room she has to come to terms with her life.

Rachel has been in love with Alistair since she was seventeen. Even though she hasn't seen him for sixteen years and she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. She's found it impossible to forget their summer together on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island. Until now. When Rachel unexpectedly reconnects with a girl that she knew back then, she is forced to re-examine her memories of that golden summer and confront the truth about her relationship with Alistair.

Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be. And then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit.

தாய், தந்தையை இழந்து, சிறுவயது முதல் தன மாமாவின் அரவணைப்பில் வளர்ந்து வருகிறான் முரளி. முரளி தன் மாமாவின் கனவுகளை புறக்கணித்து தானாகவே ஒரு வாழ்வை அமைத்துக் கொள்கிறான்.

Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland. 1975. Despite the best efforts to the older generation to maintain standards, short skirts, long hair and loud music are all the rage in Kilteegan Bridge. Emmet Kogan has set his sights on an education at the prestigious Stanford University in California, while his cousin Nellie also longs to get away, but for very different reasons. If she’s to escape too, it will mean wrapping herself in a web of lies, but it’s a price she’s willing to pay.

Драматичная история морального падения молодого африканца, прошедшего печальный путь от искреннего идеалиста с блестящим европейским образованием до циничного коррумпированного чиновника и завзятого конформиста, и его непростой любви к девушке из рода языческих жрецов. Роман погружает читателя в яркий и непривычный мир Африки второй половины ХХ века, где обычаи и обряды, сохранившиеся с поистине незапамятных времен, то мирно соседствуют, то вступают в трагический конфликт с современностью и прогрессом.

Von der Autorin des internationalen Bestsellers "Ein einfaches Leben". Casey Han, Tochter koreanischer Einwanderer, hat sich den amerikanischen Traum zu eigen gemacht: Sie will reich und erfolgreich sein. Doch nach dem Studium hat sie noch keinen Job und lebt über ihre Verhältnisse – zum Ärger der Eltern, die große Opfer gebracht haben, um ihren Kindern eine bessere Zukunft zu bieten. Während Casey vor der bunten Kulisse New Yorks einen Weg voller kleiner Triumphe und spektakulärer Misserfolge beschreitet, prallen Werte und Wünsche aufeinander.

Eine Erfindung erobert die Welt – und bestimmt das Schicksal zweier Familien, die bereit sind, alles zu riskieren. Wetzlar, Optische Werke, Konstruktionsabteilung, 1914: Dem Tüftler Oskar Barnack gelingt der Durchbruch. Anstatt weiterhin mit einer kiloschweren Glasplattenkamera auf Foto-Safari zu gehen, hat der Feinmechaniker einen handlichen Apparat entwickelt, der in eine Jackentasche passt. Ernst Leitz, der Sohn des Werkgründers, erkennt das Potenzial – und treibt die Produktion der Leica gegen alle Widerstände voran-

1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child.

Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city.