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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild...

In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on...

Fresh out of college in New England, a young woman returns home to New Orleans and is quickly pulled back into the city’s “wastrel-youth contingent” in this cult-classic novel of love and decadence, now with a new introduction. Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American...

Als Henrietta von New Jersey ins zauberhafte, kopfsteinbepflasterte Chelsea in West-London zieht, hat sie nur ein Ziel: einen Mann wie Hugh Grant zu finden. Mit schönem Haar, witzig, eloquent – einfach britisch. Schließlich liebt Henrietta seit jeher die RomComs der 90er und 00er Jahre und ist überzeugt, dass nur ein britischer Gentleman ihr Herz so erobern kann, wie es die Filme versprechen.

Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt der Bücher – mit Booktalk, Wortgefechten und großen Gefühlen Josie Klein und Ryan Lawson betreiben Buchläden in derselben Bostoner Straße – sie mit ernster Literatur, er mit unterhaltenden Liebesromanen. Als der neue Besitzer beide Läden fusionieren...

Mahasin never expected her life to change with a single night—and she certainly never expected Gage Blaque. Their worlds weren't meant to cross, but fate had other plans. Months later, when she learns she is expecting, the truth comes with its own kind of weight: she has to find him, even if...

Caught between two dangerous men – one from her past, one who could change her future. From a childhood in care to a brutal, controlling marriage, Millie Cooper's life has been shaped by fear and survival. When her husband, Levi, dies in a car crash, she’s finally free – but freedom comes...

Torn between the life she knows and the family she never expected. Millie Kelly's world is turned upside down when she discovers she’s the daughter of travellers – namely the notorious Duke and Connie Lee and belonging comes at a price even if she’s ready to accept it or not. When a...

When everything she’s fought for begins to fall apart, how far will she go to hold it together? “Heavy is the head that wears the crown” – and Millie Ward is about to learn just how true that is. With her husband Paul’s loyalty in doubt, the life she’s rebuilt begins to fracture. One...

In einem Wald irgendwo auf den Höhenzügen um Wuppertal wird eine nächtliche Schwarze Messe gefeiert: unheimliche Gesänge in der Dunkelheit, Fackelschein, Symbole auf dem Waldboden, Blut fließt. Doch anstatt des Teufels erscheint der Schwebebahnfahrer Kurt und zerrt seine Tochter Nina mit Gewalt aus dem Kreis der Satanisten. Ein paar Tage später entgeht Kurt nur knapp einem Brandanschlag auf seine Schwebebahn. Nur wenige Meter entfernt stirbt ein Mensch vor den Augen einer ganzen Kirchengemeinde. Die Schuldfrage scheint klar zu sein: Der Mörder kann nur Ninas Freund Erik sein.

THE QUEEN OF LOVE STORIES IS BACK! ‘A warm, romantic summer read’ Woman&Home Melody has vowed never to fall in love again. Al is a hopeless romantic. So, when they quite literally bump into each other, there's no reason sparks should fly. But the world seems a little upside down lately. A...

Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she...

Happy hoes ain’t hatin’ and hatin’ hoes ain’t happy. That’s how Moet feels as she steps into the role as Zane’s fiancée. She can handle the blogs, but her anger won’t allow Cabrina to keep disrespecting her relationship with Zane. When Cabrina takes things too far, will she and...

If you had to describe Minka Santos, it would depend on who you asked. To wives, she’s a home-wrecking, gold-digging whore. But to their husbands she’s the best they ever had. To her family, she’s simply Minka: a girl whose mother swept her under the rug so no one will ever know about her...

Quand la douceur du matcha apaise les blessures de l’âme… À Montmartre, Étienne, papa solo de jumeaux, tient une pharmacie de quartier pas comme les autres. Persuadé que la parole guérit autant que les médicaments, il propose aux habitués comme aux clients de passage de discuter...

A raw and unforgettable portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young women—set against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 1982. Jude is eighteen, newly out of reform school and hungry for more than her small-town past can offer...

A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff. In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New...

At the center of this startling fiction debut is Leah Levinson, a teen at sea in the anonymous ordeals of a middle-class upbringing on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. In ten installments, written from varying perspectives, we witness her uneasy relationships with faster, looser peers—girls...

Every thought I have of Letty Barnes stirs a hunger inside me that's become impossible to ignore. My housekeeper moves through my home like a whisper—quiet, careful, always trying to disappear. She thinks staying invisible keeps her safe from what burns between us. But all it does is make me...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...