Women's Fiction

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love....

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive - and deeply intimidating....

Determined to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray flees America to take refuge in Faerie Hill Cottage, immersing herself in the study of Irish folklore and discovering hope for the future of the magical past....

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mars Room, written and read by Rachel Kushner....

a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings....

Matthew Bates has wanted Laurel Armand for years, but she is his professional nemesis, and the sultry Southern belle has always kept him at arm's length....

Lou Clark knows too many things.... She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend, Sam, in London....

When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside - but he's not alone....

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter, Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast-enhancement surgery....

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love....

As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love....

When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mum, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers, and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms....

Relive the sensuality, the romance and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed - the love story that enthralled millions of fans around the world - through the thoughts, reflections and dreams of Christian Grey....

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is 19 years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.... 

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man whom she knows instantly is the one....

It's been 10 long months since Anna Fox last left her home....

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you forever....

Once upon a time, Tracy Whitney made the people who destroyed her family account for their sins. Now someone is looking for payback....

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred....

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way....

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead....

Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years....

On a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the pond below 'The Paper Palace'—her family's holiday home in Cape Cod. As she dives beneath the water she relives the passionate encounter she had the night before....

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

Uno dei racconti più entusiasmanti del pionierismo femminile, da una maestra del racconto. "Gli anni più belli" di Willa Cather, letto da Sandra Toffolatti, montaggio Andrea Giuseppini, voce di apertura di Matteo Anselmo, musica di Klippa Kloppa, gli audiolibri degli Asini sono a cura di Anna Antonelli.

Lichterfelde, 1968: Maria erhält ihr erstes Solo-Engagement als Ballerina an der Deutschen Oper in Berlin. Dort soll sie die Rolle der Zuckerfee in der weihnachtlichen Oper "Der Nussknacker" tanzen. Mit gemischten Gefühlen reist sie in die Heimat ihrer Mutter Vera. Sie taucht ein in die Musikszene der Stadt, gewinnt neue Freunde und macht sich auf die Suche nach den Spuren ihrer Herkunft. Wer wohnt heute in der Villa am Karlsplatz, die Vera 1945 überstürzt verließ? Was hat ihr Vater, der jüdische Künstler David, hier während der Naziherrschaft erlebt und erlitten?

Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town's most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At night, she dreams of the wolf den, still haunted by her past. Amara longs for the women she was forced to leave behind and worse, finds herself pursued by the man who once owned her. In order to be free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is.  Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. 

For Samantha Miller's young fans—her 'girls'—she's everything they want to be. She's an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their 'truth'. And her career is booming: she's just hit three million followers, her new book Chaste has gone straight to the top of the best-seller lists and she's appearing at sell-out events. Determined to speak her truth and bare all to her adoring fans, she's written an essay about her sexual awakening as a teenager, with her female best friend, Lisa.

Six months ago, Kate’s twelve-year-old daughter Melanie disappeared. It’s been six long months since Kate identified her battered, lifeless body. Kate is only just beginning to come to terms with her daughter's murder when a sinister message appears on her computer screen: WHY DID YOU LET HIM HURT ME, MUMMY? More horrifying messages follow. Only one person could be doing this to Kate—Melanie’s murderer. 

June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.

Pregnant and divorced, Josie Hale seeks comfort in deep-fried food at the county fair, where she runs into two old friends from high school: Ben Romero and Kevin Lawrence. After sharing their disappointments in adult life, they devise a life pact to move in together and turn their lives around. Josie finds herself the third wheel in a comedy bromance—much-needed medicine as she deals with a mountain of debt, unemployment, an overbearing mother, and preparing for single parenthood. But stress levels rise when her high-school feelings for Ben resurface. 

Labor and delivery nurse Penelope is an expert at her job, but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. Despite avoiding relationships in the past, now all she wants is for her boyfriend to leave his wife. But soon after he dumps her in favor of his marriage, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant. Suddenly, she doesn’t feel like such an expert anymore. What happens when women tell the truth about themselves, their desires, and the sacrifices they’re willing—or unwilling—to make?

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old Miles—a chance to learn about his family’s roots while coming to terms with his father’s departure—but it’s also an excuse for Genevieve to escape the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America. 

Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her, and she's never wanted anything as much before. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs Harris scrimps, saves and slaves away until one day, after three long uncomplaining years, she finally has enough money to go to Paris.

Aus heiterem Himmel wird Geertje Dircx verhaftet. Die Anklage: Diebstahl, Betrug, Hurerei. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass der Maler Rembrandt van Rijn hinter den Vorwürfen steckt. Den bejubelten Künstler und die wissbegierige Frau aus einfachen Verhältnissen verband lange eine Liebesbeziehung – bis Rembrandt sich einer jüngeren Frau zuwandte und Geertje, die sich trotz zahlreicher Schicksalsschläge stets treu geblieben ist, ihr Leben neu aufbauen musste.

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves? Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice—to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.

With humor and pathos, Little Women follows the lives of four young women and their mother as they face the daily struggles of life. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, this is the story of four sisters who learn hard lessons of poverty and growing up in New England during the American Civil War. Each of the March sisters has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. The sisters are put to the test when their mother must leave them to attend to their father who is badly wounded in the war.

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l'heroïna d'aquest llibre. Una manera de preservar la part tovíssima que hi ha dins d'una persona en formació. El món exterior amenaça, cal atrevir-se a sortir de la cel·la familiar, desactivar la mare obsessa de la salut, la germana obsessa de la felicitat, negar-se a pagar el deute del que han invertit en tu: no hi ha res a esperar d'una lesbiana suïcida. Després, reunir forces: no fer res més que follar i llegir. Trobar un lloc on la mentida no sigui necessària, on el glaç s'esquerdi. I començar.