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Shortlisted for the CWA Twisted Dagger 2025 Award. The captivating new thriller, perfect for fans of Saltburn… 'Perfect for fans of tales in which the rich and entitled get their comeuppance… deliciously twisty' Daily Mail 'Flawless, beautiful, moving, shocking and wildly compelling… I...

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set—a failed debutante's new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer “This glittering novel shines as...

The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont is a chilling and visionary science fiction story that explores a dystopian future where physical perfection is mandatory and individuality is a threat.

Chris is the ugly-duckling but most beautiful financial pawn to the aristocracy. Chris' friends hail from the aristocracy and guide him in the rituals of life and love, however not all of Chris' friends are there to guide him, but rather - guide themselves towards his parents' wealth. Join Chris and the rest of the ensemble in Los Angeles, California in dissecting love, life - and ultimately: A maze towards his riches.

It’s our world, but decades into the future...an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. All conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be. Except for 17-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night. A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | O Magazine Best Book of the Year “A compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into criminals. Terrific.”—People, Book of the Week From the author of The Destroyers comes an ""intricately plotted and elegantly structured""...

In this mesmerizing sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, the "heart-stealing heroine" (Amy Tan) and muse of Cuban musician Nestor Castillo takes readers on the journey of a lifetime with this story of reinvention, romance, and revolution. In Beautiful...