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Miranda is such a big-hearted, generous writer, full of warmth and love” Jenny Colgan * * * Two lonely people. One note in the window. And what happens when they reach out… Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of physiotherapy still to...

Kurz & bündig - unsere Shorts: Als der geizige Bruder beschloss, der Witwe seinen Papageien zu vererben, war ihm bestimmt nicht klar, was der zerrupfte Vogel im Leben der Frau bewirken wird. Virginia Woolf hat gewusst: Ein ordentlicher Umgang mit Tieren kann das Leben sehr unverhofft auf den Kopf stellen. Nach der Vorlage aus dem Band mit mehreren Erzählungen von Virginia Woolf in der wunderbaren Reihe Steidl Nocturnes.

The first in a series from bestselling author Kerry Kaya - The Carters are back! The Carter Family are back and this time they mean trouble... One wrong move... As the current head of the family firm, Jimmy Carter has decided it’s time for him to step down and for one of his other brothers to...

Chris Wright thought moving to the country would be simple. A new house. Fresh air. Chickens in the yard. A quieter life with Mia, Zooey, and Echo, built on their own terms, far from the noise of the city. Ashbury has other ideas. The town is cool and watchful, tight-lipped, and clearly unimpressed with the life they’re trying to build. Doors stay closed. Smiles feel forced. And no matter how hard Chris tries to fit in, it’s obvious they’re being quietly shut out. Then he meets Hazel. Bright, kind, and endlessly generous, Hazel radiates a warmth that pulls people in without effort.

This collection of stories explores the hidden, sentient lives of discarded objects in a fictional city. The narrative is set in the “Residual World", a subterranean reality where waste and debris possess memories, emotions, and a shared history. Through personified characters like Barnaby and...

A brilliantly funny, relatable romance set in Ireland from BESTSELLER Clodagh Murphy.☘️💛 Perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Beth O’Leary and Sophie Cousens. Two former almost-somethings. One very messy reunion. Could this finally be their time? As teenagers, Ella and Roly were an...

Sam und Daisy sind seit der Uni beste Freundinnen. Als sie sich kennenlernten, war Daisy noch ein wildes, von Fleetwood Mac besessenes Mädchen, das aus den Yorkshire Moors stammte, während Sam ihre Freizeit mit Shoppingtouren und Ausgehen in Liverpool verbrachte. Als sie sich auf einer Holzbank im Garten ihres Lieblingslokals an Sams Hochzeitstag aneinander lehnen, ahnen sie nicht, dass sich ihre Wege kurz darauf zum ersten Mal trennen werden.

泣きたいときもあるけれど、食べて、飲んで、生きていく！ 犬森祥子、バツイチ、アラサー、職業は「見守り屋」。営業時間は夜から朝まで。様々な事情を抱える客からの依頼で人やペットなど、とにかく頼まれたものを寝ずの番で見守る。

Is love in the air for two strangers this Christmas? When charming, mysterious Nik sits next to Jess on a plane home from a Christmas toy trade fair, she doesn’t know the impact he’s about to have on her life. As they touch down in London, Jess is hesitant to let him walk away, and before...

One reckless hook-up in a broken elevator . . . The big shot billionaire kissed me senseless against the glass doors. There was zero chance of seeing the Armani-clad stranger again. I didn't even catch his name—just that he was the hottest mistake of my life. But the universe? It loves a plot...

The acclaimed novel of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of 1970 Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him...

Dramatisations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most popular works, plus bonus documentary Often described as ‘the laureate of the Jazz Age’, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the reckless, hedonistic spirit of 1920s America in his classic novels The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is...

Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they. Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand. But after a particularly regrettable one-night stand with her annoying friend James, Daisy starts to look...

'An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive' GUARDIAN 'There's something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich' DAILY MAIL 'A biting satire of the art world's glamour, pomp and greed . . . lucid and evocative' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highbrow whodunnit, and...

'A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken' Abby Jimenez, bestselling author of The Friend Zone Maggie Banks loves books. And running a bookstore sounds like the best job in the world. Except in Bell River, a place that refuses to let her sell anything written this century...

When Sara Foster runs away from home at 16, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit.

He was a fool to believe he could live without her. Once she's gone, he finds out that she's everything he needs. A tattooed, muscle-bound construction boss, Gage Walker specializes in restoring New Orleans' historic buildings—and in avoiding anything that looks like a commitment. Naomi...

A page-turning, addictive, top 20 bestselling psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Bride! Can she escape the man she married? Kathy thought she’d met her soulmate. But Police Inspector Michael Conner’s behavior changes on the day of their wedding. Showing his true colors...

Three lives are brought together by chance in 90s London, in this spellbinding story of friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption *Guardian Book to Read 2026* Jaycee finally has a room of her own in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...