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....

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...

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....

It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified – and increasingly fascinated – by her absence...

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....

Swami is a talkative, mischievous boy whose life is all about having fun with his friends and avoiding school and homework. He lives with his parents, younger brother and grandmother....

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...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love...

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...

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 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.

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...

WILL IT BE MONEY OR LOVE? For Abhijeet, Saurav, Shruti, Garima life is about to change. They have the most sought after jobs in the country—jobs that will pay for designer clothes, shoes, watches, holidays in foreign locations . . . all the things they’ve ever wanted. But then, is life ever...

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...

日本文学の冒険はじまる　男たちの眼前で、トウシューズが煮えていく。靴の主は、マリー・タリオーニ。十九世紀を代表する、ヨーロッパの名ダンサーである。その伝説の靴を、愛好家たちは競り落とし――食べようとしていた。

彼女は誰よりも明るい大人になっていた年齢や環境で、距離が変わるから面白い。そんな‶女友だち〟の物語を書きました。――阿川佐和子忘れられていた彼女は、誰よりも明るい大人になっていた。

あのトンデモ精神科医・伊良部が17年ぶりに復活！直木賞受賞、累計290万部の人気シリーズ17年ぶりに復活！低視聴率にあえぐワイドショーのスタッフの圭介は、母校のつてで美人精神科医をコメンテーターとしてスカウトしようとする。

最恐教官・風間公親の初陣！新章始動！第一話　鋼のモデリング風間公親は、警察学校第九十四期初任科短期課程の教官となった。助教の尾凪尊彦は、気になる生徒として、人命救助で警察に表彰されたことのある矢代桔平の名を挙げた。

『17歳のビオトープ』待望の続編！"就職"という人生の転機を迎えた4人の大学生を、就活アドバイザー・人生先生がやさしく導いていく

おいしい料理×日常の謎！シリーズ12万部突破!やさしくてほろ苦い日常ミステリー　待望の第６巻!「じゃあ、靖子先生に相談してみたら、どうでしょう？」

En sen aften i 1987 sidder Leif på 18 år og spiller matador med sin far Uff'. Leif taber. Og det får store konsekvenser, for som spillets vinder bestemmer Uff', at Leif skal i trøjen, selvom han har trukket frinummer. Ja, faktisk har han allerede meldt Leif til marineinfanteriet på Bornholm. Men under en øvelse kommer Leifs deling ud for en ulykke. Han knækker og indlægges på militærpsykiatrisk. Og deserterer, da han udskrives.

恋愛小説の旗手・島本理生の新境地！他人からはままならない恋愛に思えても、本人たちは案外、その”雑味”を楽しんでいるのかもしれないーー。

真希は29歳の版画家。夏の午後、ダンプと衝突する。気がつくと、自宅の座椅子でまどろみから目覚める自分がいた。３時15分。いつも通りの家、いつも通りの外。が、この世界には真希一人のほか誰もいなかった。

これまで何度もリチャードを妨害してきた富豪の少女オクタヴィアに、スリランカ随一の山岳リゾート地ヌワラエリヤのホテルへと呼び出された正義とリチャード。そこで待っていたのは、オクタヴィア本人とヴィンセントだった。

📚 An intriguing, twisting and heart-warming novel set in a bookshop that has an unexpected impact on people's lives. From the author of The Second Chance Book Club and Found in a Bookshop 📚 When the Lost for Words bookshop in York hosts an event for a new reading project, four strangers'...

萩原朔太郎の長女が描く、壮絶な物語２篇「天上の花」は、詩人・三好達治を、幼いころから三好にかわいがられていた著者ならではの目線で描く。三好は前妻（佐藤春夫の姪）と別れ、朔太郎の妹・慶子と付き合うようになるが、きらびやかな生活を好む慶子と、貧しくても平和な暮らしを望む三好の愛の生活は、やがて破滅的な最後を迎える――。

切ないほど痛快で、容赦なくきらめくシスターフッドの万華鏡。すべての性の人々に中を覗いてほしい。ブレイディみかこさん　あらゆる書評がとりあげた話題の本が文庫化!

死ぬ前って、もっとワガママできると思ってた。二十歳の茉莉は、数万人に一人という不治の病にかかり、余命が10年であることを知る。

探偵作家と外交官。若き二人が友となり……斬新な発想で描く波瀾万丈の物語。大学の先輩後輩、江戸川乱歩と杉原千畝。まだ何者でもない青年だったが、夢だけはあった。希望と不安を抱え、浅草の猥雑な路地を歩き語り合い、それぞれの道へ別れていく…