Fiction - City Life

The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...

As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to...

The only good thing about Lexi's barista job is her work wife, Linh. Even her burgeoning relationship with single father, Ethan, is growing cold before it's had time to sizzle. And why can't Lexi shake the feeling that Ethan's not over his wife? When...

With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait" job at a Manhattan tabloid.The first thing they tell you when you begin your...

With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait" job at a Manhattan tabloid.The first thing they tell you when you begin your...

In the vein of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Fleishman Is in Trouble, a wickedly funny and incisive debut novel following a mother trapped in the rat race of NYC parenting as her life unravels.It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is...

In this joint volume of Caucausian fiction, two friends from opposing sides of the unresolved Georgian-Abkhaz conflict join forces to craft a poignant anti-war narrative that spans borders and transcends political divides.After finding themselves on opposing sides of a war-torn region, Guram Odisharia and...

Loves And Entanglements is a collection of thirteen moving stories about relationships - men and women caught in emotions they struggle to understand and control. Literary fiction from award-winning author Lewis Bogaty.Obsessed: A woman confronts her terror at the fragility of her marriage as...

Enter the cutthroat world of Victorian London's literary scene in George Gissing's New Grub Street. Follow struggling authors and the pursuit of fame andfortune amidst the harsh realities of poverty, ambition and the compromises demanded by society. A timeless portrayal of the perils and...

'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all, ' write the editorsof this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of India's great metropolis, theMaya Nagari, the city of dreams, between the covers of a book? Shanta...

High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, post-handover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include mid-life experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, colonialism and the Holocaust....

Another endearing feel-good romance from Annie Darling has readers returning to The Vintage Dress Shop in London's Primrose Hill. Praise for Annie Darling: 'Funny and heartwarming' Reader review 5 stars 'Absolutely gorgeous, swoon worthy romance' Reader review 5 stars 'Heartwarming and compelling' Reader review...

Five ladies, one unforgettable trip... Escape to gorgeous Switzerland this winter with the brand new, uplifting read from Karen Aldous. When Ginny Watts' husband passes away, she is left grief-stricken, not only over her husband's death but the secrets he has left behind... Luckily...

Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother,...

The reader knows by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt's three-year-old son is autistic, but if anyone told her, she wouldn't listen, because she doesn't want to know--until at last Danny's behavior becomes so strange even she can't ignore it....

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...

"A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim." --Elaine Dundy Ever since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when...

"I cried, I laughed and I swooned from beginning to end. I didn't want the book to end." A Life Bound by Books It wasn't exactly a relationship, but they had a connection even more intense When Maggie Carpenter left the seductive glitz of...

"Lake City is a darkly funny and extremely relevant debut novel about American inequality and moral authority, featuring a sad-sack antihero who takes way too long to grow up. When he finally does, the results are beautiful, and the book ultimately becomes an elegy...

The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)--from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. - "Virtually flawless.... A tour de force." --Los Angeles...

"... Some came running down from the highlands, afraid of a life of endless farming. Others came by way of the Great Rift Valley, hungry for a chance to become Nation Builders. Others still, crossed borders, desirous of a new life in the metropolitan...

Happy Williams struggles to get out of bed. She's constantly late for work and lies to hide her truth and shame. Are her toxic relationships with her mother, boyfriend, and a hateful coworker the reason for her sadness and loneliness?After a reluctant confrontation, she...

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a...

CHASING YOUR TAIL is both humorous and sobering. It's the story of a young man getting nowhere fast in life, who is growing more disillusioned by the minute and has become so fed up with the situation he's about ready to explode. Jim works...

The cabbie only remembers taking a break, pulling over in an alley to catch both his breath and the sunrise. His windshield shatters, and two people dash away. He tries to scream, to move, but his neck won't turn. He can only stare at...

A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...

When Cameron's failing relationship finally comes to an end, he finds himself on the streets of Sydney, homeless and alone. All he has left is a suitcase full of his clothes, and his job as a security guard. Battling severe depression and anxiety, Cameron...

The stage drama and book No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, were both published in December 1867. No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts was a theatre drama written in 1867 by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Previously, the two had worked...

A cheeky chappy comedianCharlie is most comfortable playing the funny man in front of boisterous crowds in London's comedy clubs. But he's about to be swapping his routine for wedding speeches. And his new acquaintance Sarah, thinks he is anything but amusing.The woman who's...

The story of policing is a story of heroes - those men and women who don the uniform every day and put themselves in harm's way to maintain a safe and civil society. There are also many sub-stories to this grand tale. One such...

Doctor Richard Schmidt forms a "Generic Therapy Group". All the good Doctor hopes to do is tip the scales of hate and chaos toward the side of love, mercy and forgiveness. When these characters meet, angels and devils are difficult to tell apart. With...

Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are...

This story received Chinese National Best Network Novel Award for 2019.In the fictional Chinese city of Nandu, the ancient walls have enclosed the neighborhood of Changganli for 600 years. In the 1950s, as the citizens wanted to develop as fast as possible, "relics" like...

Maybe Carter always felt out-of-place growing up and living in Hawl Terrace. When she meets Jaeson Holmes at the club, she immediately feels a strong connection to him. Afterwards, she drives him home in his Jaguar, and realizes that her life is about to...

Maybe Carter always felt out-of-place growing up and living in Hawl Terrace. When she meets Jaeson Holmes at the club, she immediately feels a strong connection to him. Afterwards, she drives him home in his Jaguar, and realizes that her life is about to...

"Such a unique and heartwarming story about found family..." -Tracey Lange, NYT Bestselling Author of We Are The BrennansSometimes, uprooting the thorn-filled past is the only way we bloom. . .Tessa Lewis is set to embark on a Big-Time Career and marry Toronto's fastest-rising...

"Such a unique and heartwarming story about found family..." -Tracey Lange, NYT Bestselling Author of We Are The BrennansSometimes, uprooting the thorn-filled past is the only way we bloom. . .Tessa Lewis is set to embark on a Big-Time Career and marry Toronto's fastest-rising...

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he...

Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed: critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German...

Eden Montgomery is ready to take control of her love life and experience the passion she's been missing. With the help of Alec Ramsey, a popular social media pickup artist, she embarks on a steamy journey of self-discovery and sexual awakening.As Alec begins to...

A third generation Norwegian, Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture, inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant, he is caught up in the lives of...

In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers --considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age--abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill...

Four novellas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. The four short novels in this collection are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each...

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's...

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, "a brilliant novel...about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes" (Elle). Innocents and Others is about...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an "intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality" (The Boston Globe).Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His...

A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year"A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"We're back on affluent suburban Long Island--Isaacs country--and she doesn't miss a beat or a bet when describing its inhabitants." --New York Times Book ReviewWritten with her trademark style, effervescent charm, and snappy wit, New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs...

An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal China about a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small café and gains the courage to trust what's in her heart. Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula...

four stories of fear and isolation written by the most unnerving voices in the modern horror undergroundFeaturing Jon SteffensJoanna KochJustin Lutz Dominick CancillaAuthor: Jon Steffens, Joanna Koch, Justin LutzISBN-10: 1087858100ISBN-13: 9781087858104Publisher: Filthy LootLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2021Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.26d