Collection: Fiction

Stories based on the social life, culture and nature of Konaseema surrounding villages of Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Novel based on struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life for eighty-four days, Santiago.

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart off the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams's Stoner "is something much rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel," and i...

In Água Viva, Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Bra...

First published in 1958, this is the story of a "strong" man whose life is dominated by fear and anger. It is also a social document, recounting the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the life of an African tribe - the Ibo - in turn-of-the-century Nigeria.

"In the 1990s, Carter Wills was the lead singer of the English alt-rock band Mayluna, securing his place among music legends. His tortured-heart lyrics struck a chord. And so did his secret connection to a woman whose love changed all their lives. Who was she? Evie Waters's two grown children dis...

A collection of more than thirty short fiction stories by Franz Kafka, including the title work about Gregor Samsa, a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an enormous insect.

When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-...

"On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful fighters in the world, warriors capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For centuries, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay, earning their treacherous spit of land ...