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'Razor-sharp and deliciously wry' COCO MELLORS 'Funny, tender, thrillingly dark' HEATHER DARWENT 'Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful' OLIVIA PETTER An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor I don't know who is.' An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there’s heated debate in the village about the new residents. How to choose who will live there? How will they get on together? And how will they accommodate all the pets? Meanwhile the old residents have their worries.

She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose...

An entertaining and surprising ride through an India you thought you knew...

Brought to you by Penguin. The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men. On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she...

If you’ve never read anything by Jerome K. Jerome, you’d be well advised to heed this warning by the Glasgow Herald: “It would be dangerous to [listen to] this book in any place––say a full railway compartment––where the reader was not at perfect liberty to laugh as loudly and as...

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to...

In a gleefully self-deprecating mystery, three estranged sisters meet in LA for the making of a documentary, learning the depth of their family dysfunction is nothing compared to social media obsession. Another long weekend, another family reunion for the Finch sisters. This time, Venice Beach...

Everyone - even Augustus the cat - has cause to be obliged to Jeeves when he manages to retrieve the infamous Book - the book which lays bare the private lives of three-quarters of the upper classes. And which could prove to be political dynamite at the Market Snodsbury by-election.

When Harvard University’s $52 billion endowment vanishes in a catastrophic crypto collapse, the world’s most elite institution faces a secret existential crisis. Enter J. Prescott “Scotty” Oaks IV: a Texas cutting horse rancher with MIT and Harvard Business School degrees—and a plan to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Katherine & the Halloween Fire Milo's Fairbanks Cove Mysteries, Book 4 Fire has always been Katherine Fairbanks's gift to fear, not use — until a blaze tears through her late parents' long-empty cottage, and the flames curl toward her hand like...

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionable improvisations. Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.

Gulliver nimmt eine Tätigkeit auf einem Schiff an und arbeitet bald darauf als Wundarzt auf dem Schiff. Dieses aber gerät in einen Sturm. Gulliver sucht mit fünf anderen Besatzungsmitgliedern Schutz in einem Ruderboot, das jedoch kentert. Der Schiffbrüchige erreicht einen Strand und schläft dort ein; die anderen Besatzungsmitglieder sieht er nie wieder. Als er aufwacht, findet er sich an Armen, Beinen und Haaren mit Schnüren an den Boden gefesselt. Sechs Zoll kleine Winzlinge klettern auf seinem Körper herum.

Zwei Monate nach seiner Rückkehr nach England zieht es Gulliver erneut zur See. Er fährt mit einem Schiff unter dem Kommando von Kapitän John Nicholas zum Kap der Guten Hoffnung und durch die Meerenge von Madagaskar, gerät aber dann in einen gewaltigen Monsun und stößt auf ein unbekanntes Land. In einem Boot begibt er sich mit einigen Besatzungsmitgliedern an Land und geht ein Stück weit allein. Da bemerkt er, dass die anderen Besatzungsmitglieder wieder zurückrudern, weil sie von einem Riesen verfolgt werden.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One city built on water. And one final adventure they'll never forget! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary year-long world cruise is approaching its unforgettable conclusion!...

THE BOTHERING OF CTHULHUAn Eldritch LampoonTHE STARS ARE RIGHT. CTHULHU IS NOT IN THE MOOD.For countless eons, the Great Old One has slumbered beneath the Pacific Ocean, dreaming unspeakable dreams of cosmic destruction, universal madness, and unusually affectionate female demon manatees...

At Bayside Women’s Correctional Facility, justice isn’t just blind. It’s bound, gagged, and begging for mercy.Rhonda Campbell thought she flogged her last case with the Atlantic City Police, but when an inmate turns up dead with telltale suspension marks, the cops come calling again. With...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Caribbean adventure. And a teenage girl about to discover her own rhythm! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them from the Amazon toward the vibrant...