Maja Šoljan Book order (chronological)

During her routine walk in the forest with her dog, the protagonist discovers a note pinned to the ground, revealing the name Magda and a chilling message: "Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." Shaken and new to the area after her husband's death, she becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of Magda's fate. As she investigates, her theories begin to resonate with her surroundings, transforming her initial curiosity into a consuming fixation. However, as she delves deeper, unsettling inconsistencies emerge, challenging her grasp on reality. Just as she confronts her own past, the narrative blurs the line between innocence and sinister motives, suggesting that the truth may be closer than she realizes. This story masterfully intertwines horror, suspense, and dark comedy, prompting readers to reflect on how the narratives we create can both illuminate and obscure the truth. With an unreliable narrator at the helm, the stakes rise to unprecedented levels, leaving us questioning the nature of reality and the stories we tell ourselves.

**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING 'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUE Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. 'A book I could not put down' ANN PATCHETT 'An exciting, sexy, violent Superman version of The Iliad' GUARDIAN 'Sexy, dangerous, mystical' BETTANY HUGHES

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Try me...Test me...Taste me. When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of murder. Suddenly Vianne's shop-cum-cafe means that there is somewhere for secrets to be whispered, grievances to be aired, dreams to be tested. But Vianne's plans for an Easter Chocolate Festival divide the whole community in a conflict that escalates into a 'Church not Chocolate' battle. As mouths water in anticipation, can the solemnity of the Church compare with the pagan passion of a chocolate éclair? For the first time here is a novel in which chocolate enjoys its true importance, emerging as a moral issue, as an agent of transformation - as well as a pleasure bordering on obsession. Rich, clever and mischievous, this is a triumphant read.

"Život djevojaka i žena" mnogi smatraju jedinim romanom kraljice priča – kanadske nobelovke Alice Munro. Glavna junakinja, djevojčica Del Jordan, živi na očevoj farmi za uzgoj lisica gdje s bratom i bizarnim susjedima otkriva fantastičnu prirodu kojom je okružena. Zbog školovanja odlazi s majkom u obližnji gradić, upoznaje prijateljicu Naomi s kojom dijeli sve frustracije djevojačkog odrastanja. Iznimno znatiželjna, toliko neobična u običnom gradiću, promatra svijet oko sebe, prvu tjelesnost, ljubav, odnose među ljudima, rođenje i smrt. Uz nonkonformističnu majku, prodavačicu enciklopedija po bespućima kanadske provincije koja je upućuje da beskompromisno zakorači u život, Del Jordan svojim duhovitim i lucidnim razmišljanjima nagoni čitatelja da se s nježnošću i smiješkom sjeti i vlastita odrastanja.

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing.

Nesretni mladi kraljević Patroklo prognan je u kraljevstvo Ftiju gdje je tek još jedan neželjeni dječak koji živi u sjeni kralja Peleja i njegova zlatnog sina Ahileja.„Najbolji od svih Grka” sve je ono što Patroklo nije – snažan, lijep, sin božice – i, po svemu sudeći, njihovi se putovi nikad ne bi trebali sresti. Ipak, Ahilej uzima posramljenoga kraljevića pod svoju zaštitu i njih dvojica ubrzo postaju istinski prijatelji. Kako rastu i razvijaju se, učeći vještine ratovanja i liječenja, povezanost dvojice momaka postaje sve dublja unatoč neodobravanju Ahilejeve majke Tetide, okrutne morske nimfe koja prezire smrtnike.Kad stigne glas da je Helena Spartanska oteta, grčki muževi, vezani prisegom i krvlju, kreću u opsadu Troje. Zaveden obećanjem o svojoj junačkoj slavi, Ahilej kreće s njima, a rastrgan između ljubavi i straha, Patroklo ga slijedi, obojica i ne sluteći da će godine koje slijede staviti na kušnju sve što imaju i da će sudbina od njih zahtijevati strašnu žrtvu.

Dimensions; Fiction; Wenlock Edge; Deep-Holes; Free radicals; Face; Some Women; Child's Play; Wood; Too Much Happiness

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, "In a Strange Room" is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.

_______________________________ On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift- she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family's emotions - her mother's sadness, her father's detachment and her brother's clash with the world. But as Rose grows up, she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about, and the secrets that exist within every family. At once profound, funny, wise and sad, this is a novel to savour. _______________________________ Now available to preorder- Aimee Bender's new novel, The Butterfly Lampshade

A collection of stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.

Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in 17th century Holland, obtains her first job as a servant in Vermeer's household. She loves being drawn into his artistic life, but the cost to her own survival may be high.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides finds herself drawn to a classmate at her girls' school in Grosse Point, Michigan. That passion -- along with her failure to develop -- leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this is a rare genetic mutation -- and a guilty secret -- that have followed Callie's grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Book jacket.