Fiction Genres

وفيما كان حد السكين يغوص في رقبة الخروف، راح مختار ولد أختي يفرد فرخ ورق سميكًا – من ورق اللحمة الذي اشتريناه لنلف فيه الأنصبة – فوق رقبة الخروف ليمنع نافورة الدم من الوصول إلى وجوهنا. أما أنا فقد ثبتُّ عيني على رسغ اليد اليسرى للجزار وهو يعيد ترديد الشهادتين عدة مرات ليريحني ويرضيني، فرأيت رسمًا دقيقًا باللون الأخضر الغامق مدقوقًا في رسغ الجزار؛ حينئذٍ داخَلني شعور فائق بنشوة عظيمة لا أستطيع وصفها على الإطلاق، وقد امتلأ سمعي بما يشبه زغاريد مدوية تجلجل في سماء الكون بغير انقطاع.

تدور أحداث الرواية في مرحلةٍ بالغة الأهمية من تاريخ مصر المعاصر، من خلال موظف في إدارة المراسم عمل لسنوات بمعيّة الرئيسين السادات ومبارك ، فاقترب بما يكفي ليصبح شاهدًا على كواليس عصرٍ كامل؛ تكشف الرواية في واقعيةٍ مشوّقة عن مرحلة الانتقال من دهاليز المراسم إلى أروقة السلطة.. حيث تُدار الأمور في صمتٍ مُحكم، وتُحاك المؤامرات بدهاء. هذه الرواية عن إنسان عادي حين تفتك به سلطة المناصب، وتمزّقه التناقضات ويظلله الخوف. وبين قسوةٍ تربّى عليها منذ طفولته، ورقّة الموسيقى التي يُجيد عزفها على آلة…

Food supplies are dwindling and Sam Temple is facing mutiny from the kids in Perdido Beach. Driven into town by hunger, Caine and his psychotic sidekick are spreading fear and violence. And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry. The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is…

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex.Eventually, Maria''s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery,…

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in…

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Michael must find a way through the labyrinthine deceits that surround him, while Giuliano prepares himself for a final confrontation with Don Croce, Capo di Capi of the Sicilian Mafia. A novel of explosive suspense, heroic action - and evil on an…

The Dead is the second book in Charlie Higson's jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of fourteen. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe. Maxie, Blue and the rest of the Holloway crew aren't the only kids trying to escape the ferocious adults who prey on them. Jack and Ed are best friends, but their battle to stay…

THEY ALL HAD NIGHTMARES. THEY’D ALL LOST SOMEONE. SOME OF THEM HAD LOST EVERYONE.The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - crazed and hungry.The uninfected hide across London. Landmarks have become camps and gangs roam the streets, fighting the Enemy - and each other.But DogNut is determined to track down his lost friends and he sets off on a dangerous journey from the Tower to Buckingham Palace. He can’t…

‘YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE SHE’S GONE, DO YOU?’‘I’LL FIND HER.’‘YOU’LL PROBABLY FIND HER BODY... IT’S SICKO CENTRAL OUT THERE.’The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - crazed and hungry.The others told Ella that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ed wants to assemble a crew and find her, though he has no idea who - or what - they’ll meet out there. Or if Ella is even…