General & literary fiction Books

Ivy sits in the garden of her hillside home where she makes her fishing nets, working on in the soft light of summer. The sound of bees drone in flowers nearby, a bright sky crowns a lustrous summer sea, grassland drops away from the cottage to the...

L'histoire débute à Venise.Une jeune femme, Stefania, rencontre un Français, Médéric, venu dans la cité de Marco Polo pour des raisons professionnelles.Stefania a un projet, se rendre en Asie pour retrouver sa mère, disparue lorsqu'elle avait dix ans,...

A man vanishes from the rugged coastline of Cornwall and arrives on the shores of Gandy Springs, South Africa.Many years later, a mysterious figure arrives at 'The Admiral Benbow' in Chapel Street, Penzance.A man with a new identity.He opens children's...

Emily Langham is The Moneymaker's Daughter in this fictional story about growing up, friendship, finding one's way in life and finding love. It is set in London in the closing decades of the last millennium, with the anxieties, disappointments and...

1977. Nick & Rosemary Storey's help is sought by the EEC Commission to track down those responsible for fraudulently claiming money from the EEC's Regional Development Fund to convert a former copper mine in North Wales into a tourist attraction. As they...

The first time she realised she was 'old' hit hard. She immediately saw herself as a wreck, it was depressing and reminded her that she was fed up to the back teeth being alone too, she was one unhappy bunny. She had so many regrets that were still...

Talora un viaggio di ritorno può essere l'occasione che fa rivivere il passato, oppure la cura che offre serenità alla propria anima inquieta. Sono i momenti in cui la mente rivede i giorni dell'infanzia e della fanciullezza, le estati, i giochi all'aria...

En ese preciso instante mientras el tren ante tí pasa, aún en la brevedad del momento, te transportas al destino donde siempre quisiste llegar.60 poemas breves haikus reunidos bajo este mismo tema.

Harold convive con una misfortune-teller, come la chiama lui. Laura legge il futuro ma dice la verità, e i clienti si arrabbiano e non la pagano. Harold non lavora e Laura non guadagna. Gli unici soldi vengono dalla vendita di amuleti che Laura ricava...

Since the death of his mum, fifteen-year-old Billy Monson has mostly been cooped up in his bedroom listening to David Bowie records and worrying about girls and approaching adulthood; but with the advent of punk rock, he is prompted to explore life...

A collection of feel good short stories, some with a moral, others with just a thought that it only takes one action to change the course of your life forever and become master of your own destiny.

لوران جونال كاتب فرنسي ولد سنة 1966. عاش في بيئة تحث على العلم والتعلم. درس العلوم الاقتصادية وهو من خريجي جامعة السوربون. درس علم النفس والعلوم الإنسانية في أمريكا وعمل مختصا في العلاقات العامة لمدة 15 عاما. كتب روايته الأولى في 2006 ونشرها في 2008 تحت...

1985. As the new Collector London Port, Nick Storey inherits a Collection with low morale and weak performance in a declining port. Among the changes he makes, flexible use of staff to massively increase controls at random times, leads to the discovery...

this is a story of two people going through the same problems in life one form a poor world and one from a rich world yet they both have held on for fate to intervine and bring them together as one .....a brilliant story of despair struggles hope and love

Il terzo romanzo di Carolina Francesca Catapano, è un grido d'allarme appassionato contro la dissoluzione dei costumi, la sconfitta degli ideali che hanno pervaso le generazioni precedenti. Più che mai attuale, "Non è stato sempre così" è un tuffo...

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Solomon Clay sits at the head of the most powerful group in the world, The Bilderberg Group. They are the people that really decide how the world works.Thirty years earlier, the extent of his ambitions were to one day own a mustard yellow Ford Cortina...

Wairaka Point is a gripping narrative based on actual events. The subjects and settings are diverse: New Zealand, legal investigation, rabies, fathers, US Marines, heroic women, Maori, ambiguity, possum trapping, advertising, Zimbabwe, families, World...

Y. Vonne Beck survives the abduction of her beloved child Jonathan by his long-lost father, and mother and son are reunited. But she now faces an excruciating breakup with the man she finally found love with, Asher Zilbeh. Vonne sets out to change her...

They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.

This handsome firefighter makes a living coming to the rescue, but Gin doesn't need a man to fight her battles.

Questo libro è stato concepito per fare chiarezza divulgativa sul ritrovamento di un dipinto molto particolare ed importante di Artemisia Gentileschi. Grazie al restauro da me eseguito nell'anno 2002/2003, pubblicando prove con documentazioni e foto...

De mariniers Bob Tenner en Barry Mansveld gaan vanuit hun basis op Curaçao een paar dagen op vakantie naar Cali in Colombia. Het is 1980 en Cali is de bakermat van drugsbaron Pablo Escobar. Maar ook de politie is corrupt en daar krijgen de mariniers al...

It seemed like a good idea at the time, travelling to the communist East Germany for a cultural exchange. It was early 1989 and the Berlin Wall was standing firm, at least for the moment. I was there to learn about philosophy, but the GDR's secret police...

At just 27 years old, Janis Joplin had been famous for just 8 years; yet, in that short time, she challenged not only the music industry but also western society itself, and in particular, an almost global perception of what it meant to be a woman at...

There's a late change of plans at Global, it looks like Chris and Den are spending the festive season in Austria. But disaster strikes even before they pick up the tour, could this become the biggest nightmare tour ever?This 7th Nena tale is the first in...

The present book, Tests and Us: A Collection of Real Stories, compiles the first series of short stories written by postgraduate students (MA level) of Applied Linguistics, in partial fulfilment of a course on language assessment, called Language...

James Fraser has his problems and his demons. A chronic paranoid schizophrenic and committed recluse, he wants to live out his days quietly with his family, his medication and his Kindle. One day, James suddenly discovers he can do remarkable things...

"It's often said that we all have a novel in us. Or at least, a tabloid exposé. Who the hell has a piano concerto in them, and what's more, what kind of surgery is required to remove it without causing serious trauma to the patient? This is the story of...

Discrimination, war in Europe, a pandemic. . .Sofiya, a young Ukrainian immigrant, experiences all of this and more. It could be 2022, but it's Manitoba in the early 1900s. Sofiya is the third consecutive girl born on a poor homestead near Gimli in 1903...

Aren't dreams meant to be pursued? Are dreams worth the pain and dedication it takes? The ups and downs of life, for your dream. Eric and his friends, Jeremy, Jacqueline, and Angelo, all have dreams they are seeking. Basketball, acting and modeling,...

The Story Elsadore Spook Wrote charts two young girls' lives. They embark on a journey that takes them across a vast land with many obstacles, and many ups and downs. As the generations expand, there is a new light cast across the four states, an...

Tomas and the Gypsy Violin is a simple but powerful tale about the transformative and healing power of music. It concerns an orphaned Roma child, Tomas, who is adopted by a Toronto couple. The traumatized boy is unresponsive to his new environment and...

A surreal fairytale about a character who loses their pet whale and goes on a series of adventures looking for it. The story is based on dreams the author had and recorded, made sketches of, and then made into a dreamlike narrative. Each page is...

«Un monumental relato moral sobre Dios, la avaricia, el éxito y la familia». --The Economist«Deslumbra con inteligencia y humor». --Le Figaro Littéraire«Se lee con interés gracias a los momentos más humanos, la seducción de las esposas: las disputas y...

Newly divorced, Virginia Bigelow is struggling with pressing financial debt, the frustration of a stalled teaching career, an increasingly isolated and lonely existence, and the challenges of being a single parent to an autistic child. When she learns...

The characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change-if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully...

While trying to drum up additional work, down-on-his-luck handyman Don Lank spies an imitation Tiffany lamp shining in the front window of a house. He offers the elderly widow who answers the door $800 for it-knowing he can sell it to a dealer for...

Ronya Othmann's debut novel narrates the coming of age of Leyla, a Yazidi-Kurdish-German girl. She spends the school year in her mother's home country of Germany but travels every summer to her father's home village in Syria, near the Turkish border. She...