Claire moved around to the side of the house to watch her best friend Samantha make love to her boyfriend. Mesmerised by the scene in front of her she didn’t notice the stranger who snuck up behind her.
And when the stranger started to caress...
The incredible words in the diary stood — clearly accusing: Last night I sharpened the kitchen knives for her. When I finished the largest carving knife she took it and held it so tightly her knuckles showed white. “This is my pet,” she said....
A collection of short stories by the author of Madensky Square reveals the writer’s ability to write funny and erudite historical fiction.
From Publishers Weekly
Known for her neatly fashioned romance fiction, Ibbotson (Madensky Square)...
That day, the world turned upside down. We didn’t know why it happened. Some of us wondered whether it was our fault. Whether we had been praying to the wrong gods, or whether we had said the wrong things. But it wasn’t like that—the world...
Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test
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Britain, the not-too-distant future.
Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.
He wants his family to belong.
Twenty-five questions to...
This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A...
“You’re back in the bushes, kid, with one of your spikes in a rookie’s grave and one still touching a big league rubber. You can go back either way — but one is called a...
Zalesski Vladimir Vladimirovich (Владимир Владимирович Залесский). Dialogue about unspoken (Диалог о недосказанном). Translation from Russian into English (Перевод с русского...