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....

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

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....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere....

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....

This is a story of Nandini and Bhaskar, a prosperous middle aged couple leading a good, meaningful and successful life....

One day 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond her home....

On a rainy day, a rich young man picks up a hapless college girl in his car, seduces her and drops her in her street. On realising her daughter's plight, the girl's mother pours a bucketful of water on her head, saying that she has been purified by this act....

Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation....

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

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....

Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce - plus Gordon Bowker’s fascinating biographical account of his life.... 

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....

The politics of empire-building and the hypocricies, back-stabbings and corruptions of Rome's first family come to light....

When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her....

The Witch of Portobello is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well - or hardly at all....

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah....

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....

Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of over 25 books and 500 articles on the relevance of mythology in modern times. Trained in medicine, he worked in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries for 15 years before devoting all his time to his passion for decoding beliefs of all cultures....

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving....

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....

Ирландская писательница и журналистка Мейв Бинчи (1940–2012) хорошо известна не только на своей родине, но и во всем мире. Перу Бинчи, помимо рассказов, принадлежит 16 романов, ее книги неизменно становились бестселлерами и не раз получали престижные международные премии. В 1970-х годах Бинчи опубликовала три сборника рассказов, и довольно успешно, но настоящая слава пришла к ней после выхода первого романа Зажги свечу (1982).

将軍の鷹狩りの下準備をするお鳥見役には、幕府の密偵と言う裏の役割があった。江戸郊外、雑司ヶ谷の組屋敷で暮らす矢島家は、当主が任務のため旅たち、留守宅を女房珠世が切り盛りしている。

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistress; to the navy, learning who to trust and how to navigate by the stars; and to the army and the battlegrounds of Flanders, finding love among the bloodshed and the mud. But none of this will stop Mary yearning for the sea.

Un insegnante d’arte quasi quarantenne riceve una telefonata a tarda sera: l’ospite d’onore del convegno che ha organizzato il suo istituto ha perso il volo, e toccherà a lui sostituirlo la mattina dopo.

It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.

Raggiunta ormai l'età della pensione, Nathan Glass ritorna a Brooklyn, la città dov'è nato e che ha lasciato quasi sessant'anni prima. Ha un solo e preciso desiderio, quello di cercare un buon posto per morire. Ma il caso ha deciso per lui diversamente. Gli amori infelici del nipote Tom, le avventure del libraio-falsario Harry Brightman, l'apparizione improvvisa della piccola Lucy, che rifiuta di svelare dove si trova sua madre, sorella di Tom.

El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly –una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona–, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de «teología y geometría» como de "decencia y buen gusto"; un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada.

La suite des aventures hors normes de Noam, un héros puissant et inoubliable, au cœur de ce que l’humanité a de plus beau à offrir.

Martha ist eine beeindruckende Frau, die es aus ärmsten Verhältnissen zu bescheidenem Wohlstand gebracht hat. Aber die Erinnerung an die Entbehrungen ihrer Kindheit als »Verdingkind« bei einer Bauernfamilie im Berner Umland lässt sie nie los: Keine Schwäche zeigen. Arbeiten ohne Unterlass. Hart sein zu sich und anderen. Das prägt auch ihre Söhne, die es in der Nachkriegszeit unbedingt zu etwas bringen wollen. Und ihre Enkel, die dagegen rebellieren und es erstmals wagen, sich ein anderes, ein freieres Leben zu erträumen.

Rings um die Hacienda Rosa Blanca von Hacinto Yañez in Mexiko wird nach Öl gebohrt, was aber die Farm, die ganz im Einklang mit der Natur bewirtschaftet wird, bisher wenig beeinträchtigt hat. Ihre Bewohner führen ein gutes und bescheidenes Leben, die Farm ist ihnen Heimat und Leben. Doch alles ändert sich, als ihr Besitzer ermordet wird und sich Chaney C. Collins, Präsident der Condor Oil Company, die Farm widerrechtlich aneignet, denn die Ölgesellschaft ist eine Firma mit gewaltigem Appetit.

Helena will ein letztes Mal ihren Vater besuchen und findet in Netes Hotel mehr als nur eine neue Aufgabe. Gedske droht durch den Verlust ihrer Tochter auseinanderzufallen und entdeckt auf einer Reise eine ungeahnte Kraft. Therese befreit gegenüber einer Pfarrerin ihre Liebe zu Aron, und Caroline erkämpft sich nach dem Unfall ihres Manns die zu sich selbst... In diesen Erzählungen überfällt die Klarheit die Figuren mitunter oder reißt Gewissheiten ein, aber sie öffnet stets neue Wege.

Lorenzo è un ragazzo di ventinove anni, come tanti altri della sua generazione condannato a un perenne senso di inadeguatezza e instabilità, uniche costanti dei suoi giorni. Dopo l'università si barcamena fra lavoretti in nero e una lunga teoria di giornate vuote passate insieme ai suoi compagni votati a passatempi autodistruttivi. Pervaso da un profondo senso di abbandono dopo la fine della sua relazione con Margherita, Lorenzo si fa convincere da Franz, l'amico di sempre, a partecipare a un viaggio organizzato per persone che vogliono ritrovare se stesse.

Petite fille, elle rêvait d’être astronaute. Et puis la vie l’a éloignée de son rêve… Et si c’était encore possible, que sera-t-elle prête à sacrifier pour s’approcher des étoiles ?

Eher zufällig wird Andreas Durrer zum gefeierten Künstler – als "Dürrst" jedoch droht er bald an sich selbst unterzugehen. Sein Weg vom Jugendlichen, der seiner Oberschichtsherkunft den Rücken zukehrt, über besetzte Häuser, unzählige Partys, Vernissagen und Betten meist fremder Männer bis in die psychiatrische Klinik und wieder hinaus ist kein linearer. Das Leben ist eine wilde Tour, auf der Dürrst ab und an das Ziel aus den Augen, doch fast nie die Hoffnung verliert.

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.