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ベストセラー『さよなら、田中さん』の著者が瑞々しい文体で描き切る涙と笑いの家族小説 嘘も、後悔も、失望も、孤独さえも、持ち帰れる場所はきっとある――。 両親を亡くして一人で生きてきた紅美（27）。

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Some hauntings arrive not as shadows, but as a smile you cannot quite face. In The Smile In My Peripheral, Elara Voss receives a relic from her estranged mother's estate: an obsolete flip phone that smells of dust and antiseptic. What begins as clinical paperwork fractures into psychological suspense when the old phone vibrates at 3:03 a.m. with voicemails from a woman dead for eight weeks. Or so Elara believes.

Wenn der Schnee leise fällt, beginnen die Geschichten zu flüstern. In Schneegeflüster öffnen sich fünf winterliche Welten – märchenhaft, geheimnisvoll und manchmal ein wenig schräg. Eine Elfe kämpft um den letzten Funken Weihnachtszauber, auf dem Eis tanzen zwei Herzen umeinander, ein kleiner Vampir entdeckt ein uraltes Familiengeheimnis, und ein verbitterter Mann sucht nach seiner verlorenen Liebe. Und zwischen Büchern und Träumen liegt ein Moment der Ruhe und Wärme.

A slow-burning folk horror novella blending ancestral terror, body horror, and psychological dread, The Wax Mother explores identity, inheritance, motherhood, and the horrifying possibility that blood remembers more than we do.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has felt an inexplicable pull toward the old, sealed tomb of the Hyde family, hidden in the woods near his home. The more time he spends in its shadow, the less certain he becomes where his own identity ends – and...

A ruthless pursuit of profit. A deadly winter storm. One final choice between self-preservation and sacrifice. Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov is a prosperous merchant who measures life through possessions, influence, and financial gain. When an opportunity arises to purchase a valuable forest grove...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartres first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is...

"The Piece of String" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores human suspicion, social judgment, and the destructive power of false accusations. Set in the rural village of Goderville, France, during a bustling market day, protagonist Maître Hauchecorne, a frugal Norman peasant, notices a small piece of string on the ground and bends to pick it up, despite suffering from rheumatism. His action is observed by Maître Malandain, a man with whom he has a longstanding rivalry.

Moving from a London theatre to a Pacific nightmare, and finally to a garden at the end of human history, these novellas explore what those famous silences contained. They do not rewrite the originals; they stand alongside them, asking: What did you see, and why could you not say it? An immersive listening experience for fans of literary fiction and psychological depth, these testimonies give a final, defiant voice to the witnesses who have been waiting over a century to be heard.

Una mujer recuerda con nostalgia su infancia en la casa de campo familiar, junto a sus hermanas y Sabina, la vieja criada, cómplice de sus juegos y aventuras.

Poucos escritores moldaram tanto a imaginação moderna quanto H. G. Wells. Considerado um dos pais da ficção científica, Wells foi muito mais do que um autor de histórias fantásticas: foi um visionário que antecipou debates sobre ciência, sociedade, política e o destino da humanidade. Em "A Porta no Muro e Outros Contos", o leitor tem acesso a uma faceta menos comentada, porém igualmente poderosa, de sua obra: narrativas curtas que mergulham no psicológico, no simbólico e no existencial.

Geheimnisse, Schuld & das Unheimliche – acht meisterhafte Kurzgeschichten von Nathaniel Hawthorne, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Diese Sammlung vereint acht eindrucksvolle Geschichten voller psychologischer Tiefe, düsterer Symbolik und geheimnisvoller Atmosphäre. Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit, Schuld und Versuchung entfaltet Hawthorne seine unverwechselbare Welt des Rätselhaften und Moralischen. Hawthorne verbindet phantastische Motive mit feiner Menschenkenntnis und erschafft zeitlose Geschichten über Gewissen, Isolation und die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Seele.

'PHENOMENALLY TALENTED' - The Sunday Times Are you ready to play? Have you ever found yourself doom-scrolling, worrying about that weird pain in your leg, only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll? What about that time you came...

A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile. The word "piñen" comes from Mapudungun and refers to the dust or the dirt that sticks to the body. In the all-too-real streets of Santiago de Chile, Daniela Catrileo gives us a...

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of...

WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named one of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020, and featuring stories that...

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable listeners have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in Possession - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings.

The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafón: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great storytellers.

Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski defined his early alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who eyes his defeatist attitude about himself with his clarity to see humor and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent relationships.