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Dramatisations of some of Kipling’s finest fiction for adults, including ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ and The Light That Failed Well-known for his poems and stories set in India during British Imperial rule, Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...

During a hospital visit, Lady Violet Thorn overhears a young woman accusing a married couple of her parents' murder and stealing their home, Maccabee House. From body parts scattered around town igniting rumours about a cannibal to a sex worker found brutalised, macabre events soon unfold culminating in Violet receiving a mannequin, resembling herself, stabbed through the heart. With the town of Montford in meltdown, Violet knows that the answers wait at Maccabee House, which lies in the shadow of the old tannery. But with the killer's sights firmly on her, can she make it out alive?

Life with the Durrells is seldom straightforward. Dive headfirst into family adventures with this collection of laugh-out-loud short stories from the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. Notable tales include 'The Picnic', a hilarious account of an ill-fated Durrell excursion which...

Barbro är inte purung längre. Det oundvikliga slutet närmar sig, det inser hon allt. Samtidigt går dottern Ingela igenom en livskris. Och mellan dessa två kvinnor sitter barnbarnet Barbie, som brottas med insikten att hon en dag kommer stå utan både mamma och mormor. Med osviklig tonträff och varm humor tecknar Avanna ett kärleksfullt porträtt av den omaka trion i både glädje och sorg.

Rosie Ginger is the last writer anyone would expect to cause trouble: She’s modest, dutiful, and enrolled at a strict Christian college to please her religious mother. But when she secretly submits a scandalous story to a local dirty magazine, she unexpectedly becomes its newest star—an anonymous author captivating the nation with provocative, female-driven fantasies. Because obviously America’s leading expert in desire is an eighteen-year-old who’s never even been kissed.

La famosa cabeza milagrosa de San Antonio, conocida en todo el mundo por sus supuestos poderes, es robada de Acapulco por un cantante de trap en decadencia que busca desesperadamente recuperar su fama, fortuna y lo que él llama ‘talento’, obligando a la cabeza a concederle milagros sin sentido, casi imposibles y hasta cierto punto divertidos.

A grieving human doesn’t get a tidy spiritual awakening—she gets drafted into celestial bureaucracy. Bob, a weary, kind “custodial angel” armed with a pencil and sheer exhausted competence, guides Hannah through the true shape of the afterlife: Heaven as upper administration and Hell rebranded as Your Afterlife™—less eternal torture, more rehabilitation, theater tech, and departments doing their best with limited staffing.

Five complete time travel novels, packed full of comedy, drama, romance, and vivid 1980s culture — all in one unforgettable collection. Linked by a mysterious bracelet that passes from hand to hand, these five stories span 1980 to 1984, each giving one person the chance to relive a single year of their life. Together they create a sweeping journey through the first half of Britain’s most colourful decade.

Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan.

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

Audiobook narrated by Kimberly Farr. In this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom. Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of...

With the same razor-sharp wit and self-aware charm that captivated readers in Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, Ernest Cunningham returns as your delightfully unreliable narrator in Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief. Bringing this story to life...

From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line—the highly anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. "[Narrator Angela] Dawe proves herself to be a virtuoso vocal shape-shifter, moving seamlessly from one character to another and...

A Humanities professor with the help of the Devil, using media hypnosis as a method, spreads the habit of bufoglossation (licking of toads) throughout American Society as a way to aggrandize himself.

An experimental novella released as a first draft. It's one of those post-apocalyptic-man-is-the-real-monster type things, but also not like that at all. Two women try to survive in a world of mindless zombies, crummy people, and classism. Kind of like the year 2025 but a little weirder.

I am not that woman. The one who falls for her much older, extremely handsome, and totally unavailable boss. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway. I’ve watched the other women in the office fawn over Gavin, who just so happens to be one of Texas’ richest and most desirable bachelors.

It's the Golden Age of Rome. Pax Romana! A vibrant, modern time of peace and prosperity. Emperor Augustus reigns wisely and benevolently. And Scatius Commodius Lavatorius is its greatest scientist. He alone has given the Empire every conceivable modern convenience and wonder of the day that Rome has to offer. Despite his wealth and position, Scatius is driven by one thought: Will all he has brought to Rome help Rome stay Rome throughout the ages and stand the test of time? Or will it make one damn bit of difference? There's only one way to find out.

Netti (50) steckt privat und beruflich in einer Sackgasse: Die letzte Beziehung ist gescheitert, ihr Theatervertrag nicht verlängert, der Sohn auf dem Absprung. Und dann ist da noch ihr Vater Bruno, der seit dem Tod der Mutter nicht alleine klarkommt. Aber jetzt braucht Netti dringend eine Auszeit, um endlich mal durchzuatmen und ihr Leben neu zu ordnen. Und das am liebsten am Meer, irgendwo im Süden. Als sich ihr eine Mitfahrgelegenheit mit einem Italiener bietet, sagt sie sofort zu. Doch als es losgeht, sitzt Bruno auf der Rückbank.

Hey Leute, aufgepasst, keine Fake News, es ist wirklich wahr: neue Geschichten vom Känguru und dem Kleinkünstler. Wird auch echt Zeit. Ich meine, guckt euch mal um in der Welt. Von den Zuständen kriegt man ja Zustände. Das Känguru jedenfalls hat keinen Bock mehr darauf und startet eine Rebellion. Macht ihr mit? Es wird politisch, aktuell – und extrem witzig. »Ich rebelliere!«, ruft das Känguru, als es in die Küche kommt. »Aha«, sage ich. »Wogegen rebellierst du denn?« »Gegen die Zustände.« »Verständlich«, sage ich. »Löblich geradezu.« »Rebellierst du mit?«, fragt das Känguru. »Wenn ich darf.«

Die richtige Antwort lautet: Wild. Zäh. Unbeugsam. Ich war in deinem Dschungel, Keno. Dort traf ich auf falsche Schlangen, majestätische Kätzchen und einen abgerichteten Höllenhund, der tief verborgen sehr wohl ein Herz besitzt. Du denkst, dass unsere Reise schon zu Ende ist? Ich muss dich enttäuschen, cariño, denn sie fängt gerade erst an. Ich bin kein unschuldiges Lämmchen. Ich bin kein armes Prinzesschen in Nöten. Ich, Keno, bin alles, was dir vollkommen fremd ist.