Contemporary Fiction

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love....

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new....

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. ‘Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…’ So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her...

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story....

Border Roads Organization is responsible for building roads in Himalaya at huge heights, where no other country perhaps can build roads....

Najeeb s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape...

Jayavant Dalvi has depicted a village in South Kokan in this novel. It holds us with a host of interesting characters of that time.....

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how...

This novel, based on the life of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, a well-known Bengali novelist and short story writer, is literary and biographical fiction. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was arguably one of the most popular novelists in the Bengali language....

Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters....

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever....

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued....

When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiselled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that Madhav arouses in her. And before long, she forsakes her family, her...

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up....

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent...

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single.

Maya is pretty, young and eager to escape her middleclass home. Ranjan is handsome, driven, well born and wealthy. Their arranged marriage seems a match made in heaven until Maya discovers that underneath her husband’s charming facade lies a cold-hearted, rigidly conservative monster...

A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He's ready with the rent, he's willing to lend a hand when he can and he's happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he's also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends...

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road....

Incidence & its consequence is a typical cycle, however the interpretation of consequence might be different for each individual.....

Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend....

La protagonista de Boulder és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida fent de cuinera en un buc - la situació...

The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her...

Der junge Arzt Dr. Roy Basch verbringt sein erstes Praxisjahr im "House of God". Voller Enthusiasmus und Erwartungen, beseelt von dem Wunsch...

緻密で鮮烈なマルチ・アートミステリー！かつて「ぎんなみ商店街の白雪姫」と呼ばれた八百谷雪子は、現在認知症を患い入院中。商店街の人気焼き鳥店「串真佐」三姉妹の次女・都久音は宝石店店主の神山と見舞いに行くことに。

遺された謎が解けたとき、涙があふれだす　巣鴨の路地裏にたたずむ、遺影専門の写真館《雨利写真館》。先月急逝した祖母が撮影されたときの話を聞くために、黒子ハナは写真館を訪れる。

祝！釜山国際映画祭2025　最優秀俳優賞受賞！北村匠海×林 裕太×綾野 剛魂の競演！

近年その覇者が音楽界の寵児となる芳ヶ江国際ピアノコンクール。 自宅に楽器を持たない少年・風間塵16歳。 かつて天才少女としてデビューしながら突然の母の死以来、弾けなくなった栄伝亜夜20歳。 楽器店勤務のサラリーマン・高島明石28歳。

2次予選での課題曲「春と修羅」。この現代 曲をどう弾くかが3次予選に進めるか否かの 分かれ道だった。マサルの演奏は素晴らしか った。が、明石は自分の「春と修羅」に自信 を持ち、勝算を感じていた……。

爽香は、勤務する〈G興産〉に密かに吸収合併の話があることを知る。それには社長・田端将夫の秘書で愛人と噂される朝倉有希が関わっており、何かと目障りな爽香を陥れようとしているらしい。

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by Jenna Coleman. The fiercely funny, joyfully relatable first novel from Sunday Times bestseller Bryony Gordon “You’re so desperate to make everybody else happy that you’ve forgotten what makes you happy. You’ve not just forgotten it, you’ve...

日本の小説作品として異例の大ヒット！恋人から突然、「他の女性と結婚する」と告げられた貴子は、深く傷つき、ただ泣き暮らす毎日をおくることになった。職場恋愛だったために会社も辞めることになり、貴子は恋人と仕事をいっぺんに失うことに。そんなとき叔父のサトルから貴子に電話が入る。叔父は妻の桃子に家出され、ひとり神保町で「森崎書店」という古書店を経営していた。

世界的ベストセラーの新装版第２弾本の街・神保町で近代文学を専門に扱う古書店「森崎書店」。貴子の叔父・サトルが経営するこの店は、かつて失意のどん底にあった彼女の心を癒やしてくれた場所だ。一時期出奔していたサトルの妻・桃子も店を手伝うようになり、貴子も休日のたびに顔を出していた。

本屋大賞作家の新境地となるサスペンス巨編　声なき声が届くなら、今度こそ記者を諦めない。『52ヘルツのクジラたち』で2021年本屋大賞を受賞後、『星を掬う』『宙ごはん』で同賞に３年連続ノミネート。

「教場」映画プロジェクト原作！最新刊！第一話　会意のトンネル郷村秀初は、体格に優れた14歳年上の同期、岩国禾刀に何かと助けられていた。岩国は、郷村の母の中学時代の後輩だという。

コンマ１秒で悪夢に陥る、バトンミス。それは、あまりに儚く、あまりに永い、「一瞬」――。＋＋＋＋＋高幡高校陸上部の4継（4×100ｍリレー）の女子リレーチームは、バトンのミスによりインターハイ出場を逃していた。

堀田家は、下町で古書店〈東京バンドワゴン〉を営む四世代の大家族。一家の大黒柱である勘一は、齢八十を超えてもなお元気に店を切り盛りしている。なにやら、そんな勘一をお目当てに通ってくる女性客がいるようで……？

Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful and God-fearing man about town–he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and ample money to pay for their dowries. However, it is an open secret that his success is fueled by a tawdry yet deeply profitable trade–for he owns a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside various temples to make money for him. The beggars are mere "items" to Pandaram, hardly human, to be bought and sold like cattle.

漕げよ、漕げ。あなたの船をーー男女の「歪み」と「再生」を超高解像度で描く恋愛文学の極致！東京の広告代理店に勤める43歳の涼子は、３歳年下で美容師の夫・孝之と結婚して13年。夫の夢を実現するための郊外暮らしや、子なし、かつ、セックスレスの生活にうっすら不満を抱えつつも、表面的には穏やかな日々を送っていた。