Literary Fiction

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

A living picture of the entire life of the Indian farmer - his aspiration and despair, his sincerity and religious piety, his helplessness and innocence....

अंदलुशिया में रहनेवाले एक आम चरवाहे सैंतियागो की ये कहानी स्पेन से होते हुए मिस्र के रेगिस्तान जा पहुँचती है....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature....

Now, for the first time ever, a new complete edition audiobook original of the timeless classic by Richard Bach. This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel—plus bonus interview with the author....

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind.... 

Kitne Pakistan? is a 2000 Hindi novel by Kamleshwar, a noted 20th-century Hindi writer. A pioneer of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) movement of the 1950s, and later a screenwriter for Hindi cinema, Kamleshwar’s novel deals with a vast expanse of human history....

A definitive, fully dramatised collection of the best-known works of Thomas Hardy....

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England....

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism....

The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate....

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence....

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino....

The story of a farm horse sold from Devon into the mire, wire and machine guns of the Great War of 1914-1918....

Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married - but not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with....

"Sono in questa vita da cinquant'anni, ne scruto l'enigma da quarantadue, e da trentacinque tengo un diario pieno di idee..."

The Mahabharata endures as the great epic of India. But while Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, told from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra, Ajaya is the narrative of the ‘unconquerable’ Kauravas, who were decimated to the last man....

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love - the best and worst thing in the universe....

As best-selling author Anand Neelakantan peels back the layers of Valmiki’s timeless saga, stories of ambition, love, devotion and courage shine through, inviting listeners to look at the women anew....

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century....

La obra más exitosa de Haruki Murakami. Un conmovedora historia sobre la juventud, los primeros amores y el dolor que implica el paso a la madurez. Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha una vieja canción de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de los años sesenta. Con una mezcla de melancolía y desasosiego, Toru recuerda entonces a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor y único amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki.

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants-and the fragility of citizenship-are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away, who hit rock bottom. Now she runs her life – as she does her successful business – with the utmost organization. As long as she keeps everyone at arm’s length, she will be fine. She will be safe. But then a chance encounter with a man who’s fallen on hard times changes everything.

Melina, che detesta essere chiamata Carmela, cresce i suoi tre figli con una dedizione assoluta, a tratti ingombrante. Conosce il sacrificio e la fatica ma reagisce sprizzando vitalità e schiettezza. È una tifosa fanatica di calcio, sa citare a memoria scene e interpreti di innumerevoli film, inventa indimenticabili scherzi telefonici. Finché la sua salute non viene compromessa da un tumore al seno, tabù impronunciabile che nelle parole del figlio maggiore diventa tuamore, trasformando un presagio di sventura in una speranza possibile.

Siete intensas historias sobre el desamor y la compleja relación entre hombres y mujeres. En su obra más reciente, Haruki Murakami ofrece a los lectores siete relatos en torno al aislamiento y la soledad que preceden o siguen a la relación amorosa: hombres que han perdido a una mujer, o cuya relación ha estado marcada por el desencuentro, asisten inermes al regreso de los fantasmas del pasado, viven el enamoramiento como una enfermedad letal, son incapaces de establecer una comunicación plena con la pareja, o ven extrañamente interrumpida su historia de amor.

Matadero Franklin es una narración inspirada en la juventud del Cabro Carrera, pero también es un relato sobre Santiago, los barrios de la capital y la forma de vivir que fue destruida con el golpe de Estado. Si pudiésemos mezclar Fargo, The Sopranos, Gangs of New York y ambientarlas en el Chile del siglo pasado, de seguro el resultado no sería tan sorprendente.

Milena Busquets continua la seva missió d’explicar el món, o almenys una part del món, a través de la seva vida i les experiències d’una dona privilegiada en una part privilegiada del món. Barcelona, Cadaqués, fills, nòvios, amants, amistats, el sector editorial en què va néixer, l’experiència d’intentar escriure sense impostura, la llarga ombra de la seva mare morta, el temps que passa, l’èxit, la por, el sexe, la solitud i la llibertat.

Die Fortsetzung der neuen sagenhaften Trilogie des Bestsellerautors Anthony Ryan Die Zeiten haben sich für Alwyn Scribe geändert. Einst war er ein Geächteter, jetzt ist er Spion und ein eingeschworener Beschützer von Lady Evadine Courlain. Ihre Visionen einer dämonischen Apokalypse verliehen ihr die fanatische Ergebenheit der Gläubigen. Doch Evadines wachsender Ruhm hat sie in Konflikt mit der Krone und dem Bund gebracht und im Königreich brauen sich gefährliche Unruhen zusammen.

Violette Toussaint è guardiana di un cimitero di una cittadina della Borgogna. Ricorda un po’ Renée, la protagonista dell’Eleganza del riccio, perché come lei nasconde dietro un’apparenza sciatta una grande personalità e una storia piena di misteri. Durante le visite ai loro cari, tante persone vengono a trovare nella sua casetta questa bella donna, solare, dal cuore grande, che ha sempre una parola gentile per tutti, è sempre pronta a offrire un caffè caldo o un cordiale.

Ulysses und Evelyn begegnen sich in einem italienischen Weinkeller und sprechen über Kunst und das Leben, zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem die Schönheit in der Welt nicht leicht zu finden ist. Diese Begegnung knüpft zwischen ihnen ein lebenslanges Band der Freundschaft. Er ist ein junger britischer Soldat, sie ist eine sechzigjährige Kunsthistorikerin, die ihre geliebten Gemälde vor den Bomben des Zweiten Weltkriegs bewahren will.

Marie Benedict widmet sich einer weiteren klugen Frau, die die Weltgeschichte entscheidend geprägt hat und deren Namen wir dennoch nicht kennen. Rosalind Franklin fand nach jahrelanger Forschung die Doppelhelixstruktur unserer DNA, doch für diesen Coup geehrt wurden fälschlicherweise drei Männer... Rosalind Franklin war schon immer eine Außenseiterin - brillant, aber anders. Sie fühlt sich der Wissenschaft am nächsten, den unveränderlichen Gesetzen der Physik und Chemie, die ihre Experimente leiten. Sie wird beauftragt, das Geheimnis unserer DNA zu entschlüsseln.

Un nuovo anno sta per concludersi e Asle, un anziano pittore rimasto vedovo, ripensa alla sua storia. L'uomo vive da solo sulla costa norvegese, i suoi unici amici sono il suo vicino, Åsleik, un contadino-pescatore scapolo, e Beyer, un gallerista che vive in città, a un paio d'ore di auto. Lì vive anche un altro Asle, artista anch'egli, solitario e consumato dall'alcool. Asle e Asle sono due versioni della stessa persona, due racconti della stessa vita, che si interrogano sull'esistenza, la morte, l'ombra e la luce, la fede e la disperazione. Dall’autore Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 2023.

It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He’s a talented footballer who wanted to be an artist. A gay man in a sport that rejects diversity. A defendant whose knowledge of what took place on that fateful night threatens more than just his freedom or career.

Emily rents a room in a boarding house in London where she makes a modest living as an assistant to aristocratic ladies. One summer, Lady Maria Bayne asks Emily to her country estate and it’s there that Emily receives a very surprising offer of marriage from a wealthy widower in need of a wife. But Emily’s new life is not without its own obstacles and challenges.