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Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

Deliciously read by Sam Woolf (The Crown, The Witcher) and Anna Popplewell (Chronicles of Narnia, Reign) 'Haunting and seductive . . . I drank in this wonderfully sapphic, gothic tale with a sense of ever-deepening dread' - Francesca May, author of This Vicious Hunger Chilling, gothic and...

As long as Greg has a typewriter, strong coffee, and a pocket full of postage stamps, he's alright with the world. His zine, LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH, parodies Craigslist personal ads—an ode to the sweet absurdity of public declarations of desire. But hidden somewhere in each issue, there's one quiet ad that reveals something of Greg's actual self. No one has ever found him there. Until a letter arrives from a reader called "M."

Upon its first publication in 1846, Poor Folk was an immediate critical triumph. Composed entirely of an exchange of letters between a middle-aged copy clerk and a young seamstress who live on opposite sides of a Petersburg tenement courtyard, the novel explores the emotional and psychological effects of a threatening urban environment on the psyches of poor people struggling to survive.

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff. A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of...

Fall in love between the pages . . . Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favourite book, heavily annotated and containing her friend's final words to her. When James finds Erin's note-filled book in his local...

In The Love Letter by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck, the lines between fiction and reality are blurred when a screenwriter begins to fall for the lead actress in his story inspired by a centuries-old love letter penned by his ancestor on the eve of battle. When Chloe is given a...

Ce roman psychologique émouvant traite des questionnements des enfants adoptés, de la question de l'identité, et des secrets de famille. Publié aux éditions Rageot, ce roman jeunesse a été couronné par le prix Livre mon ami, et s'est vendu dans ses différentes éditions à plus de 20...

In this gripping and ahead-of-its-time novel, the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall, Helen Graham, shocks the quiet village with her bold independence and secretive past. As rumors swirl about her troubled marriage, young Gilbert Markham becomes captivated by her strength and resilience. Through a series of letters, Helen reveals the painful truth behind her decision to leave her abusive husband and seek freedom for herself and her son.

Penguin Classics presents Bram Stoker's Dracula, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Richard E. Grant. 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A...

Eines Tages erhält Jana, Zukunftsforscherin aus Freiburg, ein Paket von einem ihr unbekannten Mann. Der Busfahrer Johan schickt ihr einen Kalender zurück, den sie in einer Telefonzelle in Neumünster vergessen hat. Es entspinnt sich die intensive Korrespondenz zweier Fremder. Während Johan der verlorene Kontakt zu seiner Tochter aus der Bahn geworfen hat, reißt sein Paket bei Jana ebenfalls alte Wunden auf. Bald finden die Schreibenden heraus, dass ihre Biografien nicht nur ungeahnte Parallelen haben, sondern auch eine ganz konkrete Überschneidung in der Vergangenheit.

Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian high society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government minister is a sure-fire way to ruin your prospects. When Obadiah Cortland, make-up artist and legend in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job as a lowly assistant, Bianca reluctantly accepts that working on his beauty magazine is the closest to her dreams she's going to get. But Obadiah has a reputation for being aloof and tyrannical, and it will take all the strength her mother taught her to endure it.

Up the Down Staircase is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose clash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents – anyone concerned about public education. Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching.

Kirjailija elää unen ja valveen häilyvällä rajalla, vetäytyen hiljaisuuteen ja kissojen seuraan paetessaan maailman pinnallisuutta. Sisällä riehuvat dissosiaatio, katkeruus ja menneisyyden traumat, kun taas ulkomaailma tuntuu yhä vieraammalta sotien, kapitalismin ja tekoälyn vallatessa...

I en tom villa i Århus bliver en teenagedreng fundet dræbt. Han er blevet mishandlet, og rundt om hans lig er der spredt døde hvepse. Politikommissær Daniel Trokic bliver kaldt hjem fra sin hårdt tiltrængte juleferie i Kroatien for at lede efterforskningen. Trokic, hans nære kollega Lisa...

Brought to you by Penguin. The TikTok sensation! Pack up the Moon is a heart-wrenching and beautiful story of love in all its forms. Joshua Park never expected to be a widower at the age of thirty. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he's always...

Bridget Jones is back and her life is as chaotic as ever in The Edge of Reason, the number one bestseller from Helen Fielding and the major motion picture starring Renée Zellweger. 'Could The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original...

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not...

WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Book...

»Der er en mand her i byen, der har været min elsker. Jeg elsker ham ikke – jeg har aldrig elsket ham. Jeg blev hans af nysgerrighed, af lune, af kedsomhed eller hvad.« På grund af passager som denne blev romanen en skandale, da den udkom første gang i 1910 – men den blev også en...