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What if you suddenly became famous for the worst performance of your life? The head of an elite girls’ school sees her polished life unravel when her cult-movie past is revealed in this funny, hopeful novel about second chances. Magnolia Wade has become famous overnight—all because of a...

“I love Fiona Warnick's writing.” —Sheila Heti From the author of the “hilarious” (Time) and “charming” (The New York Times) novel The Skunks comes the humorous and relatable chronicle of a young woman’s obsessive and romantically unrequited crush, in which the sex scenes are...

An intriguing and hilarious mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the dilemma of whether to publish his father’s final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the his death. Meet Dmitri Boris Godunov, son of Russian...

Her awful boss has been murdered and everyone in the office is a suspect in this bright, witty, chaotic, and all-too-relatable mystery. Julia wants her boss dead. We’ve all been there. Who hasn’t spent hours daydreaming about the ways their egotistical, bullying, sexist, controlling boss...

A son who wants to kill his father. A father who wants to kill his wife. A wife who wants to kill her only son: this eye-popping new novel by one of the world’s great literary satirists is full of surprises and home truths. In Gaotian Town, Central Plains, China, a family lives in abject...

Gym by Verena Kessler is a sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman’s doomed attempt to run from herself. Translated from the German by Lucy Jones. A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job. The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform and...

A charismatic love coach is exposed as a master manipulator—bringing together the many women he’s wronged—in this razor-sharp, witty debut that interrogates intimacy, power, and the stories we tell to appear perfect Dion Watkins is a relationship podcaster and influencer revered for his...

From the #1 bestselling author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates comes a swoony killer romance in which a sinister couples retreat results in cult chaos – for fans of Grady Hendrix and Brynne Weaver. Featuring duet narration and special sound effects that will have listeners on the edge of...

Wenn man nach zehn Jahren Ehe von seinem Mann per Telefon verlassen wird, dann ist das ein Schock. Zum Glück sind Schwester und Freundinnen gleich zur Stelle und verordnen der viel reisenden Verlagsvertreterin Christine als Erstes den Umzug nach Hamburg. Dort angekommen, geht's dann richtig los – und allmählich begreift Christine, dass das Leben als 40-jährige Singlefrau gar nicht so schlecht ist! Ein beschwingter, Mut machender Frauenroman über einen Neuanfang, bei dem viel mehr herauskommt als nur die Bewältigung einer unfreiwilligen Lebenskrise.

Harper Dash Is on the Case: A Vacation Mysteries Short Story by Catherine Mack is a forthcoming title from Minotaur Books...

“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...

A comic romance set in the snowy north, from one of Japan’s most revered novelists. Available in English for the first time. Unimpressed by her marriage prospects, 20-year-old Natsuko Matsuura decides to pack it in and enter a convent. But en route to an abbey in the far north of Japan, she...

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...

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...

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...

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.