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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite...

Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and the result is the remarkable story, Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to Mastercard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol, doomed to play dentists...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kauppamatkustaja Gregor Samsa herää eräänä aamuna levottomien unien jälkeen ja huomaa muuttuneensa valtavaksi syöpäläiseksi. Oven takana perhe tivaa, miksei hän ole jo lähtenyt töihin. Gregor yrittää vastata, mutta kurkusta kumpuava ääni...

'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said...

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin...

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel...

Oblomov is one of the most distinctive characters in Russian literature - within a short time following its publication in 1859, the novel spawned its own saying: ‘Oblomovism’! From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man, Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, who represented...

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.

Gespräch mit einer Mumie ist eine satirische Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, erstveröffentlicht in The American Review im April 1845. Der namenlos bleibende Ich-Erzähler berichtet von einem schweren Kater, der ihn veranlasste, nach einem üppigen Abendessen, bestehend aus fünf Pfund Welsh Rabbit und ebenso vielen Flaschen braunem Stout, frühzeitig das Bett aufzusuchen. Doch wird er wieder aufgeweckt durch eine Botschaft seines Freundes Dr. Ponnonner (= Upon honor).

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...

'Profoundly surreal, intensely melancholic and boldly exploratory.' - DAMODAR MAUZO 'N. Prabhakaran's tales restore our sense of delight, not just in this literary form but in the crying human need for retrieving, remembering, retelling experience.' - ANJUM HASAN 'Vividly imagined and narrated...

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate...

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Brought to you by Penguin. On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD * * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Italian adventure. And one man who simply cannot stop measuring things! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them into the beautiful Mediterranean! Their...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Look Up, Hendersons! — The Family Who Went Up the River** *All Aboard the Hendersons — Book Eight* **One unforgettable family. One legendary river. And an adventure that will change the way they see the world!** The Hendersons are back, and their...

WAMBAM is an advanced chatbot with promises of a better future. Whether it's making art, giving medical advice, or offering bleach-ammonia cocktails, the sky's no limit for the mechanical virtuoso. But mistake after mistake proves it's nothing but Slopper the Slop Bot! With every new advancement...