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NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • A gifted portrait artist and a high-powered subject confront past wounds to embrace new love in this poignant novel by #1 New ...
One woman takes the vacation of a lifetime in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold a family together from #1 New York Times ...
A twisty, tender and wise look at how secrets can transform the powerful - and sometimes problematic - bond between mothers and daughters, from #1 New York ...
Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits ...
There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year ...
St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, ...
It is just a few weeks after Christmas, and the unforgiving New England weather has taken a turn for the worse. Doyle has dragged his reluctant sons, Tip and ...
An anthology of eleven short stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon explores the themes of love and desire, ambition and despair, in such works as ...
Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are 24 gripping tales ...
Kate Hutchinson and her husband Simon are Londoners, performing the balancing act of raising two young children in a cramped terraced house whilst holding ...
Fran Morrison, a peripatetic musician, is summoned home to London after her father has a stroke, and she finds herself in charge of the family business, a ...
From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a timeless love story, lost in letters of the past... Secrets from the past, unravelling in the ...
The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller. Secrets from the past, unravelling in the present... Uncovering secrets that span ...
THE HIDDEN YEARS, the captivating new novel from million-copy bestselling author Rachel Hore, is out now in paperback. Loyalty and betrayal, hope and ...
Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father, Tom. While sifting through his papers, she finds he'd been researching an uncle she never ...
Description
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment. The ability to create fiction and other artistic works is considered to be a fundamental aspect of human culture, one of the defining characteristics of humanity