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From the author who brought the world Paddington Bear, comes the new book in the delightful Parisian mystery-series featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his canine partner, Pomme Frites. In this latest adventure, they must get to the bottom of a mystery surrounding the tarnishing of the integrity of Le Guide - France's premier hotel and restaurant guide. What they couldn't anticipate was that the case would involve a nun who is in the habit of joining the Mile High Club...

Trashy-romance writer Gerri has it all - an overbearing family, a dead-end job, and no man but a ton of pressure to get married and have kids. Frustrated and hopeless that things will ever change, she decides it’s time to transition from “tragic loser” to “tragic loss”. Armed with a shoebox full of sleeping pills and a big bottle of vodka, she’s ready to end it all. First, she writes “honest” farewell notes to everyone she knows…

Well the title looks familiar . . . and Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence may have been the trigger for Christopher Marsh's brilliant debut novel - but there the similarities end. Rather than a middle class Brit travelling all the way to the South of France to patronize the locals, Southern Europe gets its own back courtesy of Jesus Sanchez Ventura - the funniest fictional creation in many a year.

Eines Nachts fällt der Hypochonder Herr Wunderlin in den Schlaf und in seine Innenwelt. Intropolis ist eine skurrile Reise in den Mikrokosmos, ins Reich der Kotzmopolypen, wo in Hinterzimmern der Leber, Einzeller Glücksspiele betreiben und großbusige Monaden Striptease tanzen. Herr Wunderlin begegnet mexikanischen Mikroben, antibiotikaabhängigen Streptokokken und der kriminellen Halbwelt der Darmflora. Was, wenn winzige Terroristen versuchen den Laden zu übernehmen und augenlose Einzeller gerade seinen Umsturz planen?