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Glimmer Delacroix finds herself a runaway bride after Trick deemed her as payment for a street debt her father owed. The last place she expected to find herself was in the arms of people who once loved her like family. The Vicious Kings are a quiet force in the streets. Everyone knows who they...

Na beira do cais de Salvador, entrelaçam-se várias histórias de pescadores, marinheiros, prostitutas e malandros. No centro desse mundo que parece parado no tempo, isolado da história, comandado pelo mito de Iemanjá, desenvolve-se a trajetória de Guma, jovem mestre de saveiro. Nenhum outro...

Uma disputa de poder entre o submundo da política e travestis paulistanas. Estamos em 2009. Lula segue no auge do poder, o Brasil compõe o grupo dos BRIC e os poços do pré-sal começam a jorrar otimismo. Em uma mansão no interior de São Paulo, durante os feriados de Páscoa, seis...

'An utterly gorgeous romantic read. It made me want to pack my bags for Paris!' Sandy Barker Irena and Sacha come from two very different worlds. An heiress to a fortune, Ren’s home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up in Paris’s less salubrious suburbs...

What can strip away the polite veneer of an apartment complex and lay bare a world of secrets and lies? The discovery of a stranger’s body on its premises. Ira Dutta is an ambitious journalist who dislikes the ‘middle-class stagnation’ of Panorama Apartments. Nandana Roy is a stay-at-home mom, in the throes of an early midlife crisis. Mrs Ghoshal is an octogenarian whose life revolves around television soaps. Just three among many seemingly unconnected lives - until the murdered man is found in their building lift one night.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer _______________________________________________________ Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues...

'I implore you to read (or listen to) it' - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel An all-consuming story of loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love, If I Can't Have You is the debut novel by Charlotte Levin. After fleeing Manchester for London, Constance Little attempts to...

Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control? Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend. Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend, Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just...

The latest instalment of the irresistibly charming, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father, the late Obed Ramotswe. She feels that she knows all about his life - but does she? Sometimes our parents surprise us, and we discover that things were not quite what we thought them to be.

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.

The first in a spicy historical romance series, featuring a cast of deadly damsels! Perfect for fans of Bridgerton.Never Underestimate a wallflower! Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a...

Le troisième tome de la série fantastique "Emma Paddington" est enfin disponible en audio ! La tension monte à Dark Road End. Entre les attaques démoniaques qui se multiplient, les créatures du domaine de plus en plus incontrôlables et son cabinet de psychologue à faire tourner, Emma...

মণিকুন্তলা ভট্টাচাৰ্যৰ 'মই ডেচডিম'না হ'ব খোজোঁ' অসমৰ ভ্ৰাম্যমাণ থিয়েটাৰৰ পটভূমিত ৰচিত এখন বহুপঠিত উপন্যাস।...

New York 1925: Amy Kennedy wächst als Kind armer irischer Einwanderer auf. Wie alle Frauen ihrer Familie arbeitet sie als Näherin im berühmten Revuepalast „National Wintergarden". Insgeheim jedoch träumt sie von einer Karriere als Showgirl. Sie verfolgt ihr Ziel hartnäckig und ergattert mit 17 ein Engagement als Tänzerin. Kurz darauf trifft sie Jack McClary.

初老ホテルマン、正義に狂う 仙台の老舗ホテルに勤続30年、初老ホテルマンの「正義」が暴走する。家庭も職もある50代中年男の独りよがりはあぶない。 「カスハラなんて言い出すんじゃないだろうな」 仙台の小さな老舗でホテルマンとして勤務している大山茂。

From the BSFA Award-Winning Author of City Of Last Chances City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged...

A gripping murder mystery from bestselling author T.A. Williams A glamorous film star… Life as a private investigator in the suburbs of Florence isn’t always as glamorous as Dan Armstrong imagined it to be, until he is asked to investigate a recent spate of violent attacks on a Hollywood...

*The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about* 'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' Guardian Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents - neighbours...

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author...

Renata, uma ex-prostituta, abandona o marido rico que a traiu no Rio de Janeiro e se muda para um hotel barato no centro de São Paulo. Nesse hotel sua história se cruza com as de vários personagens. Um livro em que, segundo Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, "a ironia, o sarcasmo e o humor cortante saltam desde a primeira página".