Literary

The Book of Breathing

by Luigi Ferdinando Dagnese

Luigi Ferdinando Dagnese lacks no talent essential to novel-writing, whether erotic, psychological, sentimental, fantastic. His "Book of Breathing" evokes the worst nightmares of a technology run wild beyond...

Lost in Clover

by Travis Richardson

Welcome to Clover, Kansas, a small town sitting in the middle of America's Heartland. It's a peaceful community, until the night that high school student Jeremy Rogers accepts an invitation to party with the...

Under Western Eyes

by Joseph Conrad & Jeffrey Meyers

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by Cedric Watts

From the Hardcover edition.

A Memoir of Grief (Continued): An eShort Story

by Jennifer Weiner

A haunting, original eStory from Jennifer Weiner.

When Eleanor Goode meets Gerald King, she's a senior at Wellesley who's won all the writing prizes. He's just published his first novel, Dirty Blond, and is well...

The Art of Disappearing

by Ivy Pochoda

How do you know if love is real or just an illusion?

 When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly...

Communion

by Graeme Gibson

Exclusively available from Anansi Digital, Communion is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan.

Originally published in 1971, Communion continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in Five...

Ruth

by Nancy Springer

Poet T. S. Eliot once noted that when it came to cats, naming them was quite the difficult matter. At the Haven for Life Animal Rescue, worker Xenia knows this all to well. Glad to have a position, regardless...

Another Gulmohar Tree

by Aamer Hussein

Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom...

Summer of the Flesh Eater

by Zsuzsi Gartner

"It's a weak word, 'trouble.' But that's what came to mind when someone finally bought the Wong-Campeau place at the south end of the cul-de-sac. Stefan Brandeis took one look at the silver Camaro Z28 in the...

Good Thing Bad Thing

by Nick Alexander

On holiday with new boyfriend Tom, Mark heads off to rural Italy for a spot of camping. When the ruggedly seductive Dante invites them onto his farmland the lovers think they have struck lucky, but there is...

The Embezzler

by Louis Auchincloss

Like Francis Prescott in The Rector of Justin, Guy Prime enjoyed the distinction of having become a legend in his lifetime. But in Guy's case, the legend is one of betrayal and infamy. For the scandal of his...

Of Mothers and Little People: A Short Story

by Lucy Wood

In Cornish folklore, the “little people” are one of a complex tribe of elves, pixies and fairies. Their world is invisible to the human eye; some folks say that young women are chosen to go and live in their...

Blue Moon: A Short Story

by Lucy Wood

What happens to witches as they get older? Welcome to Blue Moon Nursing Home, where residents turn into rabbits, vacuum bags fill up with bits of potion ingredients, and residents, despite never seeming to age...

The Annex

by Jesse S. Greever

A group of friends/co-workers take advantage of being moved offsite, from their company's main building to an abandoned annex, as an opportunity to relax and put in very little time doing actual work. The good...

Sweet Charity: A Short Story

by Monica Mcinerney

In this delightful eBook short story, Monica McInerney, internationally bestselling author of The Alphabet Sisters, returns to one of her warmest, wisest, and most memorable characters: the irrepressible Lola...

The Chronicles of Parmia

by Adamo Lanna

What is Parmia? Take a temporary teacher, a Neapolitan. Send him to Parmia (partly a suburban area of Parma, the town of prosciutto, and partly a magical place out of this world), leave him without work  (Italian...

Made in Sicily (english edition)

by Vittorio Schiraldi

Many years after the publication of Baciamo le mani (I Kiss Your Hands) and La mafia degli occhi blu (Blue-eyed Mafia), Vittorio Schiraldi returns to the theme of the twilight of a boss, in whom it is easy to...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece, a Victorian novel on the grandest scale. Originally published in serial form in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871-1872, it was at once a critical and popular success. 'No...

Come From Nowhere

by Ellen Greenfield & Keana Texeira

In the early hours of July 13, 1977, seven female characters – ranging from a nine-year-old girl and her Greek immigrant mother, to a young chef who is losing her vision, to a brown rat – share the same...

Ramshackle

by Elizabeth Reeder

Roe is like any other fifteen year old suburban Chicago teenager. Her only worries are schoolwork, keeping up with her wayward best friend, and whether or not she should sleep with her boyfriend. Then her adoptive...