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Some people will do anything to feel like they belong. American ex-pat twenty-three-year-old Skye Sullivan is Influence Manager for Amsterdam's hottest startup. CoHab is a co-living community founded by charismatic Silas Hayes, and earmarked as the Next Big Thing. Everyone wants to work there...

Dramatised readings from the award-winning Jan Carson, plus bonus interview with the author herself Northern Irish writer Jan Carson won the EU Prize for Literature 2019 for her novel The Fire Starters, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Her work has been...

Brought to you by Penguin. Richard Osman’s globe-trotting series ‘We Solve Murders’ returns this September with the thrilling new mystery, We Chase Shadows. In the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a private villa at sunrise. Our mis-matched detective trio, Amy, Rose and Steve...

Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them. In 1990, college senior Jane wrote to an incarcerated woman because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Thirty-six years later, that felon, actually a man, has moved in next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane that a nice person like her would never see coming.

Once upon a time, friends Tessa, Kate, and Hallie dreamed big. Now they’re all that’s left of a once-thriving book club, meeting weekly to drink wine, talk novels, and quietly wonder how their lives got so small. Tessa, a lifelong people pleaser, excels at a corporate job she hates, while influencer Kate grows weary of chasing false perfection and true love. Meanwhile, independent Hallie drifts toward a wedding she never really wanted—nursing feelings she’s too afraid to name.

"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny." —Gary...

Brought to you by Penguin. Verity can’t seem to stop breaking the rules. Whether it’s her landlord, her employer, or the court-issued restraining orders that demand she stops investigating her sister’s disappearance. However hard she tries, life just keeps unravelling. Pru has always...

Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious new satire from the bestselling author of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series There’s only one idea more foolish than dividing Ireland – and that’s trying to put it back together again. Meet Fiach O’Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man...

"Slick, smart, raunchy entertainment" from the international bestselling author of the classic Summer of '42 (Kirkus Reviews). Ben is the writer who can't seem to make it; Ginnie is the dancer who can't seem to miss. In 1951 they are two scared kids in love—determined to hold onto each other...

"The perfect mix of wry humor, fascinating characters, and heartfelt thoughts on what it means to understand the world through stories.”—Kristen Perrin, New York Times bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own Murder A wickedly funny office comedy about one bookseller’s (occasionally)...

The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt...

“If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel.”—Good Housekeeping From the comedically brilliant author of Cry Havoc, a wry, domestic comedy of manners that follows two generations of sisters as they grapple with unstable parents, mental illness, and the general tumult...

In diesem Text in Hörbuchform wird eine humoristische Analyse der Spezies Rentner und Beamte vorgenommen und der Gegenstand von Balzacs schmunzelnder Betrachtung ist im Allgemeinen gesprochen der Alltag. Der Titel hält also, was er verspricht: Teil 6 der Aufsätze des Alltags.

『逆転美人』で話題の著者最新書下ろし！ 笑いと涙と伏線回収の"呪われ人生喜劇" ５００年の眠りから覚めた呪いの人形・お梅。 現代人を呪うつもりが、間違えて次々に幸せにしてしまう!? 果たしてお梅は狙い通り現代人を呪い殺せるのか！

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'You know Diana Leyland… she climbed the ladder by marrying a...

Brought to you by Penguin. I am fourteen years old and I’m called Mackenzie Bly. It’s a good name, isn’t it? Unfortunately, I just made it up, I’m actually called Philip Stephens which, if there was ever a competition for the world’s most boring name, would be a clear winner. ‘We...

Death is calling, and he’s not one to be ghosted… Madame Viola Starbloom is an internet sensation. She offers palm readings, tarot card deciphering and of course, the ability to contact loved ones passed. She is also a fraud. But on Halloween night, when streaming one of her popular spooky...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. Available to pre-order now! *** Audio edition contains exclusive bonus material! *** 'Kitty Collins has sealed her place as my favourite serial killer! Another sharply written, darkly funny take-down of...

Brought to you by Penguin. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among...

Brought to you by Penguin. Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes...