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Akshay Saxena, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he has to do the impossible. Angus Lee, the new owner of Thomson Lee Books, wants at least five bestsellers in the coming year, failing which the business would be wound up.

At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, whose job it is to carry bodies of the deceased to the Towers of Silence. They are segregated and shunned from society, often wretchedly poor, and theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet that's exactly what Phiroze Elchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an aging corpse bearer....

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative.

Lena Abraham knows that love can end in only one way - disappointment. Her marriage to KK is perfect precisely because she is not in love with him, and their life on a tea plantation in the picturesque Anamalai hills is idyllic. Then, one rainy morning, a man arrives to take up temporary residence in the homestay they run. Shoola Pani is south Indian cinema's heartthrob, an actor in flight from his own superstardom, and the last thing he is looking for is emotional entanglement. But when Lena and he meet, something flares between them....

複雑さと錯乱の快楽そのもののようなラ・ターシュ。非常に切なく非常に幸福な幼い時期を蘇らせたモンラッシェ。８本の銘酒がひき起こす女たちの官能を描く極めつけのワイン小説。

夜な夜な集まりカラオケ大会にこうじる若者たちと、名前が一緒というだけで親交を深めるおばさんグループ『ミドリ会』の血と血で洗う抗争。現代の孤独と憂鬱を軽々と吹き飛ばす壮絶な戦いの物語。

一号機が爆発した。原発事故の模様をテレビで見ていた木島雄介は、これから何かが変わると確信する。だが待っていたのは何も変わらない毎日と、除染作業員、原発避難民たちが街に住み始めたことよる苛立ちだった。六年後、雄介は友人の誘いで除染作業員となることを決心。しかしそこで動く大金を目にし、いつしか雄介は…。満場一致にて受賞に至った第一回大藪春彦新人賞受賞作。

若く華やかな美登利の積極的な態度に、戸惑いつつ男として喜びを隠せない孝之。ひょんなことから二人の関係に気づいた涼子は複雑な感情に苦しむ。そんなある日、涼子に偽って美登利と参加したツーリングで孝之が事故に遭い大事なものを失う......。気づかぬうちに"深い川"に隔てられた二人は、再び漕ぎ寄ることができるのか？

「トルンカは、日常と地続きにある桃源郷だ」菊池亜希子最高の一杯をあなたに――。路地裏に佇む『純喫茶トルンカ』のコーヒーに魅せられた人々の三つの人生模様。

大富豪・三田村朋哉は、孫娘の奈美に、遺産を渡したい人物として杉原爽香の名前を挙げる。以前、爽香によって助けられたことがあるらしいが、当の爽香にはさっぱり覚えがなかった。一方、娘の珠実は中学一年に。

Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen: Als sich Stefan und Theresa zufällig in Hamburg über den Weg laufen, endet ihr erstes Wiedersehen in einem Desaster. Zu Studienzeiten waren sie wie eine Familie füreinander, heute sind kaum noch Gemeinsamkeiten übrig. Stefan hat Karriere bei Deutschlands größter Wochenzeitung BOTE gemacht, Theresa den Bauernhof ihres Vaters in Brandenburg übernommen. Aus den unterschiedlichen Lebensentwürfen sind gegensätzliche Haltungen geworden. Stefan versucht bei seiner Zeitung, durch engagierte journalistische Projekte den Klimawandel zu bekämpfen.

Jens Leunich besitzt nur so viel, wie in zwei Koffer passt - und außerdem genug Millionen auf dem Konto, um sein ganzes Leben in den Luxushotels der Welt zu verbringen. Abgesehen davon tut er - nichts. Gar nichts. Denn nichts zu tun, hat er erkannt, ist der beste Weg, die Welt zu retten. Bloß ist nichts zu tun nicht so einfach, wie die meisten denken. Diese und andere schlaue Einsichten will er nun niederschreiben - doch ganz gegen seine Gewohnheiten muss er sich damit beeilen, denn er hat nur noch zehn Tage zu leben.

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.

Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work...

Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. In this complete BBC Radio collection, we meet the surprising Dr Finlay as he is welcomed to the practise with a black eye. Over the course of these series the early years of Dr Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

We all are mahi! This means, we are all loved by nature. We are nature's most beautiful creations. We are made to love and be loved. This is a story about individuals who came from different cities to Delhi in search of career and freedom. A story of friendship, love and loss. Despite the stress of earning a livelihood and paying day-to-day bills, the characters in this story manage to make a life for themselves. Their story is deeper and more intoxicating than the world's finest wine! So let's go on this roller coaster of emotions and experiences....

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE, WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Until Darren and Jodie move in, Lowland Way is a suburban paradise. Beautiful homes. Friendly neighbours. Kids playing out in the street. But Darren and Jodie don't follow the rules and soon disputes...

From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time.

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: Nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water.

Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese-American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from 25 years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind?