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She is her mother’s daughter. And she knows how to hold a grudge… Connie and her daughter Jenn have never had an easy relationship. At eighty-seven, Connie can look back on a formidable career as a lawyer, fighting for women’s rights. Jenn meanwhile has built a quieter life. After all...

When you're lonely, a good book can feel like a friend. But what if it could connect you with someone in real life? When bookshop owner Jude sees how a love of the same book can bring people together, she starts using her shop to help people connect. Soon, her book-matchmaking is changing the...

Darkly glamorous and viciously funny, She’s All the Rage is a tailor-made nightmare about identity, ambition, and the horror of getting exactly what you wished for. 'Radford at her lyrical best . . . A compulsive page-turner' – Charlotte Cross, author of The Brides The Devil Wears Prada...

Percival Everett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James, takes readers inside the world of Greek god Dionysos and his quest for satiation in this re-issue of Frenzy. In Ancient Greece, the demi-God Dionysos is infamous for his penchant for ecstasy and excess. And yet he is plagued by the...

"One of my favorite writers in the world." —George Saunders From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Enter Lynette: actor, writer, director, showrunner and star of the final film in her head—is it a comedy, a...

From the bestselling author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Quiet on set, please. Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or...

Struggling sleuths Simon and Jane realize that a murder mystery weekend might not have been the best way to unwind in this winning whodunnit from the authors of The Pie & Mash Detective Agency. Trainee private investigators Simon and Jane are under a lot of pressure. Their relationship is...

A dazzlingly inventive new novel from the bestselling author of In Memoriam: Arthurian legend cracked open. Princess Isode is happy with life in medieval Ireland. Her hair is as shiny as thread of pure gold, every knight she heals with her medicinal powers falls madly in love with her, and she...

Neuharlingersiel im Spätsommer – herrlichstes Wetter, alles könnte perfekt sein. Doch dann werden kurz hintereinander erst die beliebte Fußpflegerin Marlies und dann die lebenslustige Eva Mühlenhoff tot aufgefunden. Plötzlicher Herzstillstand, heißt es. Während die Kripo in Wittmund...

The Wedding People meets Beth O'Leary! Maggie May has a lot going for her. A house in Cornwall. A fiancé. A sister. Unfortunately, her fiancé is sleeping with her sister. In her kitchen. Over her table. Ben Jones has his own problems. A lot of them. And a very questionable plan to fix them...

The irreplaceable humour and drama of Flann O’Brien in three unmissable dramatisations of the great Irish writer’s best-loved works Frequently described as one of the ‘holy trinity’ of contemporary Irish writers alongside James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, Brian O’Nolan (better known as...

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

You are cordially invited to die... Former serial killer Carol Quinn is about to get out of prison (again) in time to attend the wedding of two fellow retirees on a remote island off the Suffolk coast. When the bride's horrendous ex-husband is found murdered hours before the ceremony, however...

Not every hero wears a cape, some wear rubber gloves. Corey Naylor only wanted a quiet shift, a working mop, and for people to stop leaving impossible stains in places that were clearly marked as restricted access. Unfortunately, the galaxy had other plans. When armed pirates seize a diplomatic...

Fresh off being a suspect for a murder she didn't commit (this time), retired serial killer Carol Quinn investigates an all-new murder (she also had nothing to do with!) in the likeliest of places...a wedding. Things are unexpectedly lively for the residents of Sheldon Oaks retirement home...

Succession meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this sharp and stylish satire of modern power about an aristocratic family and the fantastically wealthy American couple they befriend in troubled times. The Gators are a sufficiently ancient English family who love their dogs more than their children...

Das unglaubliche Leben eines Hochstaplers zwischen Ost und West Ein gefallener Geigenhändler wird von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt und in ein rasantes Abenteuer verstrickt. Mit unbändiger Erzähllust und virtuoser Leichtigkeit erzählt Per Leo von einem, der alles verlor, sich neu erfand und dann ums Ganze spielen muss. Eine schillernde Gaunergeschichte über die Verwerfungen der deutschen Nachkriegszeit, über Ost und West und die Macht der Erzählung.

Unverhofft wacht die Ex-Handballerin Wanda nach einer OP neben Frau Bernhard auf, die Mitpatienten durch die Lektüre von Tolstois »Anna Karenina« heilen möchte. Wider Willen findet sich Wanda in einem Buchclub wieder, zu dem auch eine bekannte Schauspielerin und eine Hausverwalterin gehören. Als sich Frau Bernhards Gesundheitszustand verschlechtert, nehmen sich die drei ungleichen Frauen ihres 13-jährigen Sohns Leo an und versuchen, ihm ein Leben jenseits der Bücher schmackhaft zu machen.

'From its original premise to the wonderful writing, Den is one of those novels you can't look away from' JENNIE GODFREY 'An eerie, hypnotic fable that captures the profound longing that unites us all' WIZ WHARTON In a garden somewhere in London, Fox is watching a man called Ben through his...

From the author of the bestselling Mouthing comes a wise and bittersweet novel about life and death, secrets and lies, and one small Irish family in crisis… Mick Farrell is the only funeral director in Ballyrowan. He is also a very unpopular man – pedantic, tight-fisted and stiff as a corpse...