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Sisters before misters Kathryn Hu hätte es besser wissen müssen – Tucker Jones war einfach zu perfekt mit seinem Astralkörper und dem charmanten Lächeln. Doch er war nichts anderes als eine Red Flag, und nun sitzt sie hier mit zwei weiteren Frauen, Tuckers anderen Freundinnen. Ja, plural...

A prequel short story told from the point of view of Harper Dash, the sister of Vacation Mysteries series narrator Eleanor. Harper Dash doesn’t know what she’s doing with her life. She wanted to be an author, but instead she works for her older sister, Eleanor, whose bestselling Vacation...

“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPR The brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one...

A tale of family, love, nuclear war, and… UFOs; a classic novel from iconic Japanese author Yukio Mishima, available in English for the first time. Like nothing else that Mishima wrote, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that...

Margo’s Got Money Troubles gets a thrilling gothic twist in this delightful, darkly funny debut novel set in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. When Emma Propeller’s unreliable and narcissistic husband, James, fails to return home to her and their new baby from a business trip, she fears...

Discover a BRAND NEW warm, witty and relatable read from Celia Anderson, BESTSELLING author of A New Lease of Life. 'Celia Anderson's characters leap from the page in her beautifully observed stories.' Sue Moorcroft Violet has discovered it’s never too late to fall in love – or worry about...

The brand new hilarious instalment in the Pie & Mash Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Thorogood, Janice Hallett and Richard Osman. A murder mystery weekend is meant to be fiction. At Spencer Hall, it’s about to become very real . . . When the actor playing the Butler disappears...

Brought to you by Penguin. Meet Natalie: she hates work, but turns out she's great at labour The job: deliver seven healthy babies in ten years. In exchange: Natalie’s every need attended to, and her labour (figurative and literal) for once generously compensated. And during what Natalie comes...

THE SPANISH LANGUAGE SENSATION 'Reflects on what we truly think (but almost never say) about domestic labour' Vogue 'A witty and unflinchingly honest novel on domestic work, motherhood, and class. Painfully relatable and enjoyable to read' Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This 'Makes you laugh...

A sparkling fake dating romantic comedy from MULTI-MILLION-COPY bestseller Portia MacIntosh! Right place. Right time. Wrong man. Fern never expected to inherit her late gran’s café in Maui. She knows nothing about running a business, so her plan is simple: fly out, sell Dotty’s Café to...

By the author of Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, and featuring outrageous, damaged characters with a sharp comic voice and unexpected tenderness, Screaming Ball of Chaos will resonate with fans of Big Swiss and Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone. Chris was just your average male stripper when...

From Chuck Palahniuk, an author whose “literature is a breed all its own” (USA TODAY), his first foray into science fiction, following a young man searching through old sci-fi pulp magazines for clues to find his father who disappeared into space years ago. On Earth, a young man named Grunt...

In this timely, devastating comic novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golem of Brooklyn, the millennia-old monster grapples with the occupation of Palestine, Zionism both Jewish and Christian, and what it means to save a people. “Perhaps only a novel this dark and absurd...

Der französische Literatur-Gigant Balzac war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende. Sein fast übermenschlicher Arbeitseifer wurde optimal durch seine Kaffeesucht und seine zahlreichen Affären ergänzt, wobei letztere ihm dabei halfen, seine chronischen Geldprobleme wenigstens phasenweise zu überwinden. Er erschuf ein Universum von mehreren hundert Charakteren, wobei „Die menschliche Komödie" sein bekanntestes Werk darstellt.

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY, HIGH FIDELITY, FEVER PITCH AND MORE 'A joy from start to finish' KATE ATKINSON ''We're having the time of our lives' is the refrain running through CASH OUT, and I had the time of mine reading it. A love letter to football, and a love...

Pre-order this outrageously fun, laugh-out-loud rom-com now! 'A proper rom-com with a hugely appealing heroine; warm, funny, romantic and very, very, charming' ANNA JAMES 'This book had me laughing, crying and relating so much to the main character I felt I was reading about myself'...

'Relatable, lovable, and very very funny’ Graham Norton – Millie is old enough to know better. Just don’t tell her that. At forty-nine, Millie's life is in freefall. Everyone around her seems to have it all figured out—meanwhile, she’s stuck in a job she hates and back living with her...

A charming Yuletide romance painted with gorgeous Regency detail. Elizabeth Gore-Langton was hardly in a position to refuse accompanying Lady Astley to the Christmas party at Stenton Castle. After all, a paid companion must follow her employer's wishes. It scarcely mattered that Elizabeth would...

CAUTION! All employees must correctly dispose of otherworldly biohazards found on Dark Enterprises property. Failure to comply may result in one hell of a mess...from the author of Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World. "If a door is closed, you leave it alone." That's the one rule janitor Sam...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called Paradox Inc., he’s startled to find the venue is in the past. Silicon Valley’s emerging “temporal engineering” sector has just cracked time travel, and companies are racing to exploit it for...