New fiction 6,500-word story from Stephen King.
Brenda should be happy. The kids are quiet, the road stretches ahead of her like an airport runway, she's behind the wheel of a brand-new van. The speedometer reads 70. Nonetheless, that...
The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.
This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a...
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Jodi Picoult introduces characters from her new novel SMALL GREAT THINGS...
The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination — was it reflecting...
SEVEN GLOBE-SPANNING TALES THAT DEFY REALITY
Viktor Chemayev is a sad-eyed, heavy-drinking romantic who refuses to stay beat. In the title novella of this extraordinary collection, he goes head-to-head with an Irish assassin in the depths of a...
‘I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop and an old hand grenade. It’s pretty cosy.’
And… she’s off. Eighty-year-old Herra Björnsson lies alone in her garage waiting to die. One of the most original narrators in literary...
It’s been a week since the cargo ship was lost on my watch. A week with very little sleep and not much appetite. Now the bio scanner is picking up some sign of life out there in the wreckage, and it’s my duty to go see what it is. Maybe I’m...
Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western cultures.
Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl — taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a...