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The debut novel from Irish playwright, actor, and poet, Emmet Kirwan.

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

北宇治高校吹奏楽部の活躍を描いた人気青春エンタメシリーズ、初の短編集。葵が部活を辞めた本当の理由が明かされる「あの子には才能がある」、葉月が秀一を好きになったきっかけとその後の顛末をつづった「好きな人の好きな人」、「とある冬の日」では、秀一が久美子についに告白!? など、北宇治吹部の面々の、甘酸っぱくてちょっぴり切ないヒミツの話をたっぷり盛り込んだ、必読の一冊！

Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

杉原爽香は、病院で居合わせた余命いくばくもない老人・汐見忠士から、米川由衣という女性への遺言を託されてしまう。一方、高校一年の笹井友美は、以前家庭教師だった篠原純代と街中で再会。誘われるまま、純代と行動を共にするが……。

M is a woman suffering with chronic pain. She has been for as long as she can remember. No one can see it. So, no one believes it. Desperately seeking relief for the pain no one wants to treat she turns to a series of increasingly unorthodox treatments to find a cure.

In a lighthouse on a crumbling coastline, two greying wives keep the fires lit, reading futures in fish scales and sending signals into the dark, while a monster with an almost human face circles their garden, sly and hungry. Further up the coast, a woman experiencing strange cravings after an intense heartbreak feels herself pulled to the light at the cliff's edge, where she might finally be able to satisfy her hunger.

Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity. Interwoven with real recipes and magic realism, the novel centres on Thai-English first-time mum Lin who, desperate to connect with her dead mother, travels across Thailand with her baby to find answers, lost recipes, and her mother's ghost, uncovering links to a devastating political past instead.

40万部突破の大人気シリーズ！「心神喪失者の行為は罰しない」刑法第39条vs連続殺人鬼救うべきは誰か。凄惨な殺害方法と、稚拙な犯行声明文で世間を震撼させた「カエル男連続猟奇連続殺人事件」。事件のキーマンである有働さゆりは医療刑務所から脱走し、行方知れずのままだった－－。

猛練習も日常となり、雰囲気もかなり仕上がってきた矢先、北宇治高校吹奏楽部に衝撃が走った。副部長で、部の要と言える三年生のあすかが、全国大会を前に部活を辞めるという噂が流れてきたのだ。母親との確執から、受験勉強を理由に退部を迫られているらしい。さらには、楽器に対する複雑な心境をあすかは久美子に打ち明ける。はたして大会の行方は――。“吹部”青春エンタメ小説の決定版！

裏社会の人間が次々と惨殺された「ブルーマーダー事件」。その渦中で暴力団組長・皆藤が行方不明になっていた。組長の妻は、彼も巻き込まれたのではというのだが。（表題作）　マンションの一室で男が合成麻薬による不審死を遂げた。

Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement—but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is also an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, then sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear.

Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary novelists.

Suzanna Klein spends every Saturday at Hillcrest prison, where her mother is serving a life sentence. Many leave Hillcrest and do not return—women who are released or transferred, family members who stop visiting. Suzanna’s grandmother has never visited and is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s decision to aid in a politically motivated robbery that led to a man’s death. At an early age Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever—to stay by choice, not by curse—and the book traces her quest to remain in a place everyone else wants to leave.

In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the few survivors of a terrible tragedy. Their only choice now is, somehow, to become a family. Five years earlier, Opal and her husband James arrive in the small mining community of Silver Valley, drawn by promises of fortune and independence. There they meet Baron Rowe, the charismatic visionary who controls the community with an iron fist.

自衛隊の絆が、日本を戦場にする―。公安捜査官・純也が日本のタブーと対峙する！小日向純也が率いる公安部隊「Ｊ分室」。ある日防衛大学校の卒業生が相次いで死亡した。

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

Celestial Lights is a portrait of a complicated man whose vision and unparalleled understanding of the universe don't always translate into stellar relationships on Earth. It explores the sacrifices required to achieve greatness—but more importantly, the idea that greatness is not always what it seems. This breathtaking tale which reveals how personal choices can send a world spinning, will make every reader lift their head to the night sky and marvel while also cherishing the connections that make our planet home.

池袋の繁華街。雑居ビルの空き室で、全身20カ所近くを骨折した暴力団組長の死体が見つかった。さらに半グレ集団のOBと不良中国人が同じ手口で殺害される。池袋署の刑事・姫川玲子は、裏社会を恐怖で支配する怪物の存在に気づく――。

This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government.