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Vishesh is a dreamer who is driven by his passion for writing and words. But like most Indian middle-class families, his parents are impatient to see him settled in a government job. Despite all obstacles, making no complaints, he continues to follow the hard path, holding up the promise he had made to himself, trying to fulfil his father's wishes and failing over and over.

Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

学校に行くのを〝じしゅてき〟にやめた小学四年生のシホは、絵描きの伯母・みどりさんの仕事を手伝うことになった。「心の中で強く願えば、空想のたねが芽吹いて、丘に魔法を咲かせられるの」とみどりさんから教わり、シホは空想から絵を描き始める。

若手建築家Hの才能に嫉妬する老建築家のJは、ある日Hの自邸に忍び込む。内部で目にしたのは、美しく緻密な空間と家族の生活だった。家の魅力に惹かれるほど、Jはこれまでの価値観や孤独が揺らいでいく。

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband.... In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident with no memory. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

螺良町役場の若手職員・津久葉光太は、着ぐるみキャラクター「らら坊」の"中の人"を任される。素の自分では得られなかった承認を、別の姿で受け取るうちに、彼の内面は静かに変化していく。自分とは何か、大人になるとは何かを問い続ける、等身大の青春小説。

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by Jenna Coleman. The fiercely funny, joyfully relatable first novel from Sunday Times bestseller Bryony Gordon “You’re so desperate to make everybody else happy that you’ve forgotten what makes you happy. You’ve not just forgotten it, you’ve...

Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous father’s footsteps. But when he dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life. Drawn to writing her father’s own story, Serena approaches Harry Redford, his best friend and front line colleague. Harry has a request of his own. He wants her to go take care of Zachary North, her former lover, who has come out of Afghanistan suffering from mental and physical exhaustion.

日本人の６割が「シメヲ」になった。正しくは、「シメヲ」の顔に――。未知のウイルスにより、名脇役「須田シメヲ」の顔になるという奇病が蔓延している日本。感染が広がる中、夏希は「自分がシメヲになることは絶対にない」と確信していた。

高級そうな桐の箱で、人間の手が送られてきた――。その手を見て、僕は真帆と過ごした日々を思い返す。美大を卒業後、芸術制作に取り組めないまま社会人として日々を送っていた僕は、話題のピアニストとなっていた真帆と再会した。

貴族の屋敷に衣紋女房として雇い入れられた寧々。 しかし相方で上役でもある要芽の奔放すぎる言動には、怒りが沸くばかりで……。 色の重ねかた、着付けかた。衣の美しさに魅了された少女の、雅なるお仕事小説。

埋立地にある町では、夏と冬の年に二回ごみ拾いボランティアイベントが行われる。私たちは半年ぶりに集まってトングを握った。別々の中学に進学した四人の少女たちの心の機微を描く青春小説。

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel...

Brought to you by Penguin. From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to...

Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, an oasis of familiar delights – a beautiful garden, a busy kitchen and a bountiful recreation schedule. But this ordinary neighbourhood is not without its prejudices. The serenity of Cinnamon Gardens is threatened by malignant forces more interested in what makes this refuge different rather than embracing the calm companionship that makes this place home to so many.

When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother’s post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family’s recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele. With the support of her beloved twin brother, Richard, Justine resolves to uncover the truth.

In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father's life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance. He reads about his work as an interpreter during the war with Japan, his life as an assassin and his decision to murder Indonesians in the service of the Dutch without any conscience. How he fled to the Netherlands to escape being executed as a traitor and met Alan's mother soon after. 

Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of boundless opportunity where the rich engage in hunting safaris, horse racing, outrageous parties, and all the pleasures that money can buy.

The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to...

From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family. ‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says. ‘Not me,’ I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies.