Sagas

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel - plus bonus interview with the author Arundhati Roy's debut novel The God of Small Things took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997. It went on to sell over six million copies in 40...

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don't give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

एक विस्मृत नायक। एक अविस्मरणीय युद्ध।....

2017, Delhi - Vidyut’s dying ancestor summons him to Banaras. The old Brahmin chieftain of the Dev-Raakshasa Matth, or the God-Demon Clan, bears a chilling secret. Their bloodline carries an ancient curse that will plague mankind - towards its own violent extinction....

The dark age of Kali is rising, and every man and woman must choose between duty and conscience, honour and shame, life and death....

1700 BCE, Harappa – the devta of Harappa has fallen tortured and condemned to the dungeons of the dead. His murdered wife’s pious blood falls on the sands of the metropolis, sealing the black fate of Harappa forever....

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila....

Eight months ago, I was a naive, small-town farm girl nursing a shattered heart. Then hotel billionaire Henry Wolf picked me up off the ground (literally), and my entire life changed. Now, I live in a luxurious Manhattan penthouse, and I'm starting my first company while planning a beautiful...

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom were first introduced in My Brilliant Friend, have become women....

Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila....

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields....

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her...

இது ஒரு மனிதனின் கதை. காலம், தெய்வமாய் மாற்றிய ஒரு மனிதனின் கதை. கி மு 1900. இன்றைய இந்தியர்கள், சிந்து சமவெளி...

Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her....

It is the 1870s, and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart....

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the...

For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history....

It all started with a contract signed by him, then by me, while our families watched. While my father sat silent, a man defeated, giving his daughter to the Benedetti monsters. I obeyed. I played my part. I signed my name and gave away my life....

From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there—thrown together by circumstance, bonded by...

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him...

When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work....

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American...

Sanditz, eine Kleinstadt am Rande der Republik. Warmherzig und multiperspektivisch verwebt Lukas Rietzschel die Erzählung der Familie Wenzel und der Sanditzer Stadtbewohner zu einem Panorama deutscher Geschichten: vom Ende der DDR bis in die jüngste Gegenwart, vom Besetzen der örtlichen Stasi-Zentrale bis zum Kampf eines Freiwilligen in der Ukraine, vom Abrackern auf westdeutschen Baustellen in der Nachwendezeit bis zum isolierten Inseldasein der Jahre der Corona-Pandemie.

Emmeline Ashworth has never known real want. As the grocer’s daughter, she has warm meals, a solid roof, and a father who dotes on her. She’s always understood she is luckier than most, but nothing prepares her for the day a half-starved young woman runs into the shop, desperate for help. The girl – Lily - is bruised and ragged from the slums that sprawl at the edge of town and opens Emmie’s eyes to the harsh realities of life for some in Wakefield.

Joanna Toye’s delightful trilogy telling the story of life in Ambridge from 1951-2001, narrated by Miriam Margolyes, Stella Gonet and Stephanie Cole Britain's most popular and longest-running radio drama, The Archers has captured audiences’ imaginations for 75 years, with millions of...

Sagan om Emilie är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga. Halvor och Samantha har fått en bra relation till Halvors lille son. De vill ta med honom tillbaka till Amerika – något barnets mor, Karen, är emot. Emilie slits mellan hopp och tvivel om att Simon verkligen förändrats.

This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn't begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead, The Descendant begins with a big, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters.

A haunting past, a mysterious connection, and a chance for redemption on the beachfront. Prepare to be enchanted by the third installment of Ainsley Keaton's Sconset Beach series, The Beachfront Reunion. When Jessica Bennett, James Bloch's granddaughter, arrives at the inn, Ava finds herself...

Fruchtige Süße, als hätte man das Glück in Rubinrot eingefangen. Als die Schwestern Emma und Tilde Fromm 1899 in Rostock den Zug besteigen, um einen Neuanfang in Schwartau zu wagen, ist die geliebte selbstgemachte Erdbeermarmelade natürlich im Gepäck. Die Frauen ahnen nicht, dass dieses kleine Stück Heimat der Grundstein für ein florierendes Familienunternehmen sein wird, dessen Konfitüren die Welt erobern. Doch der Weg dahin ist gespickt mit Intrigen und Widerständen.

Als Margarets Mutter im Sterben liegt, kehrt sie mit ihren Töchtern ins Elternhaus zurück – ein Ort voller schmerzlicher Erinnerungen. Während Margaret sich in diesem heißen Sommer von ihrer Mutter verabschiedet, stellt sie sich den Geheimnissen, die sie seit ihrer Kindheit verfolgen. Wie sie als Mädchen allein mit der ungewollten Aufmerksamkeit umgehen musste, die Nachbarjungen und ihr eigener Bruder auf sie richteten. Seitdem ist Margaret entschlossen, keiner Fassade zuzustimmen.

Dal primo Novecento al secondo dopoguerra si sviluppa la storia della famiglia Barrieri, dei loro quattro figli e di tutti i personaggi che, nel bene e ne lmale , le ruotano attorno. L a Prima Guerra Mondiale, il duro lavoro in campagna, le epidemie, il Fascismo, le fughe all’estero da esuli e...

Drei Frauen, drei Generationen − ein Garten am Meer. Ein Roman über Vergänglichkeit, Neubeginn und Hoffnung. Und darüber, was es heißt, in der Fremde Wurzeln zu schlagen. Magdas Leben verändert sich mit einem Schlag: Ihr Mann Alfred, Botaniker in Münster, verliert 1933 seine Professorenstelle, weil er Jude ist. Im fernen Istanbul lockt ein überraschendes Angebot: Republikgründer Atatürk will die Universitäten des Landes modernisieren, und am Bosporus soll ein prächtiger Botanischer Garten mit Pflanzen aus aller Welt entstehen.

Thus with a kiss I die. Romeo and Juliet, written by English dramatist William Shakespeare during 1594–1596, is one of the bard's most popular and frequently performed plays. It was first published in an unauthorised quarto in 1597. An authorised longer quarto was published in 1599.

Joanna, beautiful and other-worldly, finds herself trapped with her consumptive husband and two girls on a small farm in North Yorkshire. Ground down by local prejudice, her husband’s bitter despair and the merciless demands of their loss-making farm, Joanna escapes into a fantasy world of exotic islands, faraway cities—and Sir Walter Raleigh. Her journey through trial and tragedy however leads to a hopeful and uplifting conclusion.

Jest IV wiek naszej ery. Persja i Cesarstwo Rzymskie znów pogrążają się w brutalnym konflikcie. Gdy żona młodego księcia Elamu zostaje porwana przez Rzymian, Daris – dziedzic starożytnego rodu – wyrusza w pełną niebezpieczeństw podróż przez spalone wojną stepy i doliny Bliskiego Wschodu. Ranny, ścigany i zdradzany, nie cofnie się przed niczym, by odzyskać ukochaną. W świecie, gdzie lojalność to towar deficytowy, gdzie na królewskich dworach przepych i intrygi mieszają się z brutalnością rodem z aren rzymskich amfiteatrów, Daris musi stawić czoła nie tylko wrogom, ale i własnym wątpliwościom.

Casablanca, 1955. Une femme est allongée sur un rocher encerclé par les vagues. Bientôt, les courants d'arrachement l'empêcheront de regagner la terre. En face d'elle, sa fille dort sur la plage, exposée au danger. Affleurent à sa mémoire les épisodes de sa vie : son enfance de misère en Normandie ; son placement dans une famille de cœur fauchée par la Shoah ; son adoption par son oncle fortuné au Maroc ; la prison d'un mariage de raison et l'emprise d'un frère incestueux.

When Dorothy Linford defies her father to marry Franz Hartmann, a former German internee, she’s cast out from the Linford family and forced to build a new life in Germany. For a time, happiness thrives – until the 1930s bring fear and suspicion that threaten to tear their world apart. Across the Channel, Dorothy’s sister Nellie and cousin Louisa face struggles of their own as the Linford family fractures under the weight of old secrets. Separated by distance but bound by love, the sisters must cling to hope – even as the shadow of war darkens their lives forever.