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Holly Hart has been married for 15 blissful years to hubby Alex. Well... if you don't count last Christmas, when she accidentally found a load of sexy texts on Alex's phone. But every marriage has its ups and downs, and Alex had a perfectly reasonable explanation... so why can't Holly forget...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE "Faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing." —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and Small Rain A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and...

When Hattie Green pops to the shop one afternoon, she never expects her life to flash before her eyes between the tins of baked beans and a special offer on sliced white. One minute she’s loading her trolley and thinking about what to give her son for dinner, and the next she’s speaking to a...

Septembre-Octobre 1883 « Est-ce immoral d’épouser un homme uniquement pour sa bibliothèque ? Et s’il s’avère être particulièrement beau, le péché en est-il plus ou moins grand ? » Passez la porte de Lapis-Lazuli House et laissez-vous guider par la plume aiguisée et sarcastique...

Novembre-Décembre 1883 « J’ai accepté l’idée que ma vie avait pris un tournant pour le moins indigne. Mais c’est une telle joie. » Passez la porte de Lapis-Lazuli House et laissez-vous guider par la plume aiguisée et sarcastique d’Emma M. Lion. Un charme à la Jane Austen, un...

Love Island meets Jurassic Park meets Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle in this twisted, thrilling satire about a group of influencers looking for love . . . only to find horrors awaiting them in paradise, and a group of producers plotting a wicked finale. They're dying for a chance at...

A hilarious fantasy novel perfect for fans of Good Omens, The Dresden Files, and Terry Pratchett. If you like your eldritch horrors with a side of snark and a lot of heart, welcome to the holidays in Chicago. Infinite cosmic power. Itty-bitty living space. To the universe, he is a Class Omega...

Three never-before-heard adaptations of classic episodes! When young Private Pike gets his call-up papers, the platoon agrees to give the lad an appropriate send-off. Meanwhile, Mainwaring and Warden Hodges declare war in their contest to win the Town Clerk's blood donor certificate. Mainwaring gives the platoon a firm dressing down on the subject of alcoholic intoxication, only to be confronted with his own past, in the shape of his boozy brother - much to Private Frazer's delight. Corporal Jones is in love - but will the lady in question accept his proposal of marriage?

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s wife pursue their passion –...

Bestsellerautor Mark Franley, wie man ihn bisher noch nicht kannte… Das Leben des Versicherungsvertreters Herrn Mayer gleicht einer flachen Linie. Alles muss seine Ordnung haben und Abweichungen im Alltag sind nicht erwünscht. Doch dann zwingen ihn unvorhersehbare Umstände zu einem...

TRAPPED IN (TWO?) LOVE TRIANGLES! Himari's got the hots for Saito, and a certain incident leaves Akane down in the dumps over her newfound married life. Saito's heart is also left shaken, and Saito offers Akane a peace offering in the form of a date. Akane and Saito head out on the town together...

À Dreodonara, royaume paisible où les créatures fantastiques vivent en harmonie, Arto est une exception. Le seul humain du royaume. Ce qui ne l’empêche pas de se satisfaire d'un quotidien tranquille, rythmé par son travail de serveur à l’auberge de son père adoptif, un orc bourru au...

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.

Classic crime stories featuring the affable British bobby, plus bonus radio documentary On the Beat with PC 49 Created specifically for radio, The Adventures of PC 49 was a pioneering police drama, offering a new kind of investigative hero: the humble bobby on the beat. One of the most popular...

When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium than to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage. In a school that time forgot, Peregrine's 'talents' for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army.

The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? How about when he turns out to be a friend you haven’t seen in twenty years? Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way? Give...

Bloomsbury presents a graphic adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast, read by Joe Eyre, Harriet Carmichael and Brian Bowles. Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the...

Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in...

Scary stories are fun... until your life becomes one. When Alice was 15, her father killed Mia Heywood in their lakefront cottage before vanishing into the trees. At least that's what the locals think happened. More than a decade later, Alice has lost her job as a journalist, she's going through an expensive divorce and she desperately needs to sell the boarded-up 'murder house'.