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To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world - drinking, dancing, smoking - relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer.

A timely debut novel from an exciting new voice in women's fiction about cancel culture and appearance versus reality. It's an ordinary Tuesday morning when Ruby Williams' name starts trending online. She's uploaded an interview that has outraged journalist Felicity Cartwright, a social media...

SOUNDING OFFICIAL IS EASY. BEING EFFECTIVE IS HARDER. Some people rise through competence. Crispin had a different strategy. Crispin Lockwood-Fetch never set out to become a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He simply discovered, quite early on, that he was exceptionally good at one thing: sounding official.

Through the haze of vodka and self-loathing, Hazel Roundtree saw the poor creature lying in a ditch. One brown eye. One blue. Covered in mud and crying from pain, the puppy was desperately trying to free itself from a hopeless situation. She almost kept walking by. She had her own problems, and besides...no one had ever stopped to help her. Hazel had no idea the dog would be her beginning, her second chance, the miracle she never saw coming.

A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel. Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst...

Curvy Model Gabriella steht kurz vor der Erfüllung ihres großen Traums: dem Launch ihrer ersten eigenen Dessous-Kollektion! Und so ist es für Gabriella selbstverständlich, Lio nun ihrerseits zu unterstützen, als er die Chance bekommt, seine Karriere als professioneller Freerunner voranzutreiben. Doch die gemeinsame Zeit wird schnell immer knapper, und ihr Leben gerät aus der Balance. Schon bald sehen sie sich einer ganz neuen Herausforderung entgegen: Können sie ihre große Liebe und ihre Beziehung retten, ohne ihre eigenen Träume aus den Augen zu verlieren?

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

In the follow-up to My Italian Bulldozer, hapless food writer Paul Stewart once again finds himself trapped in a series of hilarious misunderstandings, this time facing off against the second worst restaurant in France. Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six months.