"Sans me vanter, je suis exceptionnellement doué pour faire d'une vie qui aurait tout pour être heureuse un véritable enfer."Janvier 2015, Emmanuel Carrère rejoint un stage intensif de méditation. Son but : écrire un petit livre souriant et...
When Wren Irving's numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn't tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter, Phoebe, good-bye, and leaves.
Two decades later Rob has moved on...
An ebook novella from the bestselling author of The Postcard
'I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house. It must have been sitting on the garage shelf for years among all the other family rejects.'
When a...
Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiance she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as...
An amazing journey in search of a work of art that mysteriously disappeared during the Nazi period Over 500,000 copies sold worldwide by the so called ‘Queen of the Spanish Adventure Fiction’, one of the top writers in Spanish language, and...
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah...
And now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane's publishing history....
Loa was not just king of his Central African tribe, he was a god to his people. He controlled life and death in his village. Then he turned outward and conquered his neighbors. He felt very fierce.
But this was not to last. Europe was on the march...