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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.

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.

君は主人公の器だね。プロデューサーだというおっさんは言った。新卒で入った会社を速攻で辞めていたぼくは、メンズ地下アイドルのメンバーになった。だけどぼくの人生に銀幕は降りない。主人公じゃなくて、INFPだから。

信頼する友人のアドバイスを受け、倫也は弁当宅配のついでに家事代行サービスのアンケートを取るバイトを始める。臨機応変な回答集めが認められ自信を得る倫也だったが――。（GOAT 第２号「GOAT Summer 2025」掲載）

マッチングアプリで出会った那月は全てが完璧。彼との間できた子供はまだ私のお腹の中にいて、ママと呼びかける。こんな汚れた私だってきっと大丈夫だよ。（GOAT 第２号「GOAT Summer 2025」掲載）

表参道で、高校３年生の我孫子美亜は人を待っていた。戦禍の大磯で、ミヤコは毎日出征する人の送り出しに忙しなくしていた。在日韓国人パクチヘは、夫の仕事の都合で60歳にして初めてソウルで暮らす。

『Ⅰ』18歳の容姿・身体機能を保ったまま45年の寿命を生きるか、『Ⅱ』従来通り平均寿命の95年を生きるか──女性が18歳を迎える際にどちらかを選べる「選択制度」が発足した日本。

Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds, too. Where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying "don't worry about me"?

In his “finely crafted first novel” ( Booklist), Peter Geye evokes the savage beauty of Lake Superior’s north shore and the bittersweet reunion of a dying father and his hurting son after decades of estrangement. When Noah Torr returns to his family’s Minnesota cabin to reconnect with his father, he learns for the first time what really happened 35 years ago—and how it changed his father forever.

Orphaned and alone, Rachel is taken under the wing of her strict African-American grandmother and moved to a mostly black community where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and astonishing beauty start to attract a troubling level of attention. As the terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her own self-image in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

なりたい自分になるための唯一の方法は、なると決めて動くことーー。郊外の街パジュに暮らす少女は、やがてソウルへ旅立つ友に、恩人の姿を重ねた。（「GOAT meets 01」掲載）

たまたま耳にした元同期の訃報。死んだ彼は、ひそかに私が憧れていた人物だった。私は、彼がどうして死んだのかを調べ始める。（GOAT 第２号「GOAT Summer 2025」掲載）

私は今日から、“ごきげんよう族”の一員になった——。中高一貫の正実女子学園に、高校から入学した言成佳夏。生徒たちが密かに興じる「《悪のロール》は禁止」なる奇妙な遊びに参加すると……。ブラックユーモア冴えわたる痛快学園小説。

「特別な教育」を受けたハヤカワ君の不思議な世界に近づくほど、私はどうしても彼を好きになっていく—— 文藝賞受賞作『無敵の犬の夜』の著者・小泉綾子が放つ、奇抜かつ切実かつ鮮烈なラブストーリー！ 受賞後第一作！

一族を殺された堀家の女たちは、会津藩主加藤明成を討つべく立ち上がる。助力を求めた老僧と共に現れたのは……！　忍法と武芸が火花を散らす（？）前代未聞の伝奇やぎ小説。（GOAT 第２号「GOAT Summer 2025」掲載）

決闘目前！　西高の不良グループ「天狗党」との一戦を前に、「ウグイス凶」会長から下されたのは、まさかの命令。「全員インフルエンザの予防接種、受けてこい」――”闇文芸四天王”吉田棒一の短編笑説。（「GOAT meets 01」掲載）

総務部を兼務するデザイナーのわたしの唯一のデザイン仕事は、スーパーの特売チラシを作るという面白みのないものだった。わたしは出来心から、そのチラシにある仕掛けをするようになり――。

Tower jockey Benny Poteat has seen a lot of things. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burnt-out bulbs, secured by nothing but a leather harness and carabiners, he's witnessed baptisms, outdoor weddings, dogfights, glorious sunsets, topless sunbathers, fierce storms, raging fires, and plenty more. Not much he sees surprises him, until the day he watches a woman die.

There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw, fists like hams, and they say the last time he took a tenner from his wallet Henry Lawson blinked at the light. Lethal but loyal, he's always good for a laugh. In this, the third collection of Les Norton adventures, Les gets his boss off the hook. But not without the help of the boy from Binjiwunyawunya. Les then finds himself in a spot of bother in Long Bay Gaol then in a lot more bother on a St. Kilda tram in Melbourne.

When Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her dying grandfather, Wilhelm, and grandmother Romy, they share with her family secrets they had kept hidden for over 50 years. In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East': beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy. They form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto. Eventually, they are forced to go in separate ways as Romy doubts Li's loyalties.