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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li. 'Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into a friend or an enemy to...

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The...

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

শঙ্কর, অর্থাৎ মনি শঙ্কর মুখার্জী জনপ্রিয় এক বাঙালি লেখক। তার জন্ম হয়েছিল পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারতবর্ষে। চরণ ছুঁইয়ে যাই...

For 300 years, The Pilgrim's Progress has remained perhaps the best-loved and most read of devotional fictions. In plain yet powerful and moving language, Bunyan tells the story of Christian's struggle to attain salvation and the Gates of Heaven. He must pass through the Slough of Despond, ward off the temptations of Vanity Fair, and fight the monstrous Apollyon. In Part II, his wife and children follow the same path, helped and protected by Great-heart, until for them, too, "the trumpets sound on the other side."

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

प्रसिद्ध युवा लेखिका गीता श्री का यह उपन्यास कहानी है गोलमी नाम की एक युवा नृत्यांगना की जो 'सपने देखती नहीं...

Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal...

The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.

The life Oscar Wilde never had — reimagined by John Boyne in his most ambitious and emotionally powerful novel yet. Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February...

A STUNNING, HEARTFELT NOVEL ABOUT A DECADES-LONG FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN TWO COMPOSERS FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE, BOURNVILLE AND MIDDLE ENGLAND The year is 1907 and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired young composers in France. In Belle Epoque Paris he cuts a...

New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring...

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. One man proved elusive...

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she...

সোমনাথ ব্যানার্জী-র জীবনের কাহিনী শুনুন, শংকরের লেখা অনবদ্য উপন্যাস, শুনুন শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল-এ!...

The story of a writer’s singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable...

Vamsi is a well-known movie director. He's popular throughout Telugu-speaking states as a legendary director. He's known to the magazine reading public through his stories like 'Pasalapudi Kathalu', Diguva Godavari Kathalu' etc. Those who read his travel literature like 'Kotipalli...

A partir das memórias familiares e da figura do próprio pai, Mia Couto tece este belo romance que transita entre a Moçambique pré e pós-independência. Diogo Santiago é um intelectual moçambicano respeitado e de muito prestígio. Professor universitário em Maputo e poeta, ele volta pela...

Una novel·la en dos temps sobre dues parelles i sobre els anys decisius de Mercè Rodoreda La tardor de 1959, en una plaça de Ginebra, un tramvia produeix una forta contusió a Mercè Rodoreda. L'accident es converteix en una frontissa decisiva que l'empeny a revisar la relació amb la seva...