Showing titles in Contemporary Fiction

Det økonomiske kollaps og finanskrisen forårsager farlige spaendinger mellem indbyggerne i en lille by. Grådighed graver grøfter mellem tidligere venner. Arbejdsløshed, sorte penge, et mord og en barnebortførelse sender chokbølger gennem det lille samfund.

16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret mellem det sorte lokalmiljø, hvor hun bor, og den finere privatskole i forstaden, som hun går på. Men da nedskydningen af Khalil bliver forsidestof over hele landet, er hun nødt til at beslutte, om og hvordan hun vil råbe op, særligt da nogle af hendes venner på skolen antyder, at Khalil selv var ude om det.

Illegaler Handel,ein Banküberfall, drei Morde und ein Junge in de Welt der Erwachsenen, in der es keine Unschuldigen gibt....

When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds she's been downsized from her high-powered corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realises that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. At first she does the obvious thing -- she panics. Then she decides to put her years of marketing savvy to work and dreams up a brilliant new business: helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city.

A Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
Doug Parker is a widower at age 29, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity - the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First, there's his 16-year-old stepson, Russ, who now is getting into serious trouble on a daily basis. And then there's his bossy twin, Clair, who's just left her husband...

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...

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.

The streets of London are paved with gold...allegedly. They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to do something with their lives, and as far as they are concerned, the place to get noticed is London.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY A Vogue Top 10 Book of the Year and New York Times bestselling author, a bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They...

Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiancé's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the...

'For fans of Maggie O'Farrell and Jojo Moyes, this is a sweeping book of love, motherhood, death and hope' STYLIST 'Wonderfully assured' THE TIMES 'Pass the tissues...' EVENING STANDARD 'Lovely novel. Highly recommend' JENNI MURRAY 'Beautifully written' THE SUN 'Prepare for heartbreak' WOMAN &...

Tony Parsons writes for the first time about his rock and roll years in a touching novel about friendship and growing up This is the UK of the summer of 1977 – in the midst of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, a generation are trying to grow up and discovering the limits of freedom. It is 16th...

Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, has been ordered by the mukhabarat - the secret police - to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife. Huda has no wish to be an informant, but she fears for her teenage son, who may be forced to join a deadly militia. Little does she know, Ally has dangerous secrets of her own. Meanwhile, Huda's former friend, Rania, enjoyed a privileged upbringing as the daughter of a sheikh. Now her family's wealth is gone and Rania too is battling to keep her child safe and a roof over their heads.

Alan Nolan discovers his father's memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. 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...

All his life, young Saw listened to his mom tell him how much he looked like and acted like Wink, the man she claimed was his father. Wink was a hood legend who ran the city in the late '80s and early '90s. Saw’s mother is convinced that he too will end up in a cell beside his father and grandfather — both doing life in the feds.  

Da en engelsk-indisk kærlighedstrekant endte i mord, sendte det chokbølger gennem 1950'ernes Bombay. Omkring 40 år senere i London efterlader Bhalus døende mor ham en kuffert fyldt med breve og et mysterium: Var der i forbindelse med mordet endnu en skjult og ustraffet forbrydelse, som havde haft stor betydning for Bhalu og hans families liv?

I Tyskland på taersklen til Anden Verdenskrig, lever de to venner og enkemaend, Nicolas og Alex, hver deres fredfyldte liv med deres børn. Nicolas og hans families sikkerhed bliver dog truet, da hemmeligheden om hans afstamning kommer frem. For at overleve må familien flygte til Amerika, og det eneste som Nicolas og hans sønner kan tage med sig er deres otte fuldblodsheste. To af dem er lipizzanere og en gave fra Alex.

En 12-årig dreng bliver vidne til sin jødiske mors affære med en ung østrigsk baron, som han også selv beundrer. En tysk læge forelsker sig i en allerede gift engelsk kvinde, der har bedt ham foretage en abort. En ensom 18-årig pige tilbringer et par nætter med en kendt forfatter, men svigtes af ham, da hun bliver gravid. En Shakespeare-studerende indleder et forhold til sin professors hustru, men er i virkeligheden mere fascineret af professoren selv. Så enkelt, men samtidig så tvetydigt begynder østrigeren Stefan Zweigs erotiske noveller, der var store salgssucceser i 1920'erne, men som blev brændt på nazisternes bål i 1930'erne.

Um poderoso homem sofre perdas irreparáveis e torna-se um colecionador de lágrimas. Despedaçado, decide penetrar os porões de sua mente em busca da sociedade dos seus sonhos. "'Não é possível', pensei. Em vez de se prostrar diante de Deus, ele o chamou para um debate, e ninguém previa o que seria discutido. Depois desse episódio, ele deixou de ser um vendedor de sonhos e passou a ser um ousado semeador de ideias. E nós, após presenciarmos seu "debate", nunca mais seríamos os mesmos.

Drusilla Delany liv är inte enkelt. Som född i ett fattigt hem är hon redan som liten beroende av den rika familjen Framling. Och i deras residens är det som om tiden har stannat. Hon kan inte undkomma sitt förflutna som fattig. När det verkar som om mörkret håller på att omsluta henne helt får hon ett underligt besked. Hon har ärvt en mycket värdefull påfågelsstjärt. Kanske kommer den att hjälpa henne upp ur all misär? Men med tiden visar det sig att smycket bär på mycket mer än bara rikedomar.