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Otty has just landed her dream job. She's about to join the writing team of one of the most respected showrunners in TV. And then the night before her first day, she's evicted from her flat. Joe has been working with Russell for years. He's the best writer on his team, but lately something has been off. He's trying to get his mojo back, but when his flatmate moves out without warning he has other things to worry about.

At 47, Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and her life, running the American branch of Jardine’s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London. Having fully come to terms with her long widowhood, Stevie now draws emotional strength and contentment from her work and her family. Then, one day, an unexpected act of violence committed by a stranger on the other side of the world plunges Stevie into turmoil and despair.

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and...

The knife slashed one way across her mouth, then the other, silencing her words. The last thought she had as the knife plunged down was that at least it would all be over soon... When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly...

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

Tokióban – a világ egyik legnagyobb metropoliszában – egy kóbor macska bolyong a sikátorokban. Útja során finoman megérinti egyes városlakók egymástól látszólag teljesen független életét, és ezáltal meglepő módokon kapcsolja össze a sorsukat. A város azonban folyamatosan változik. A macska lassan a peremvidékre szorul, ahol különös idegenekkel találkozik: egy hajléktalannal, aki egy omladozó szállodában húzza meg magát, egy magányos remetével, aki retteg elhagyni a házát, és egy kisbolt dolgozójával, aki a szerelmet keresi.

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...

BRAND NEW from the bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Dachau comes a powerful novel about love, heartbreak, and the stories we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Fiona Valpy and All the Light We Cannot See. It takes courage to tell your story… Kraków, 1994. When an...

Two missing girls. One powerful family. A killer watching them all. When fifteen-year-old Brynn Hagen and her five-year-old sister Eveleigh vanish from their uncle’s home in the Montana mountains, the search for them becomes a race against time. Because the girls weren’t reported missing for...

Trent'anni, analista programmatore in una società di servizi informatici, il protagonista di questo romanzo conduce un'esistenza indifferente. Il lavoro, i viaggi d'affari, le prigioni dell'amore e del sesso, l'assenza di qualsiasi sentimento che non sia di insofferenza verso se stesso, lo scivolare lento e inesorabile in uno stato di insensibilità dal quale sembra non esserci via d'uscita. In una lingua affilata e gelida, che più volte costeggia i territori di tragedie innominabili, Michel Houellebecq compone un romanzo epocale, una educazione alla non-vita, alla noia, all'indifferenza.

'Twisty, menacing and compelling, you won't be able to put it down' C.L. Taylor, Sunday Times bestseller 'Truly creepy . . . I loved it' Elly Griffiths, Sunday Times bestseller The Hunting Party meets Our House in this gripping, claustrophobic new locked-room thriller. When you're sharing a...

Alexis Gibbs, addicted to a controlling man named Jarred Simmons who has given her nothing but empty promises and broken commitments, must choose between being Jarred's mistress forever or moving on and starting a new life with a new man. 

Orchid & the Wasp brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess - daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor, and sister to a vulnerable younger brother - as she strives to build a life raft in the midst of economic and familial collapse. Moving by wits alone, Gael cuts a swathe through the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, the New York gallery scene and birth-throes of the Occupy movement.

Robinson Crusoe is considered by many to be the first novel in the English language. The term 'Robinsonade' has even been coined to describe the various spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe. It is astonishing how much of the book has become part of the language; the very term 'Robinson Crusoe' has become synonymous with the concept of a castaway.

"A Desertion" is a short story published in 1900 about a young woman who is suspected by others in the neighborhood of indiscretion that might trouble her father.

Corrections officer Sierra Howell is engaged to Assistant Deputy Warden Lamont Simmons. Their unconditional love for each other has brought them through some tough times. While juggling their demanding careers, they have managed to create a seemingly stable and stress-free environment for themselves and their two children from previous relationships. Unfortunately, Rasheed Gordon, former Rikers Island inmate and the father of Sierra’s son, Messiah, is threatening to tear them apart.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF O BROTHER In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse...

ماذا لو ظل العقل البشري يعمل بضع دقائق إضافية ثمينة بعد لحظة الوفاة؟! «ليلى تكيلا» فتاة شابة من الطبقة الفقيرة تعيش في إسطنبول وتعمل كفتاة ليل. ذات يوم، يتم العثور...

Brought to you by Penguin. Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller. It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope...

An unlikely friendship between two young women from opposite ends of Fitzroy sparks lifechanging transformations they could never have anticipated. Melbourne, 1945. Born into a well-to-do family, Maggie Johnson wants freedom from her parents' strict conservative beliefs and their unbending...