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Aspiring travel writer Mia Walker dreams of covering dream destinations for a living. So when she’s offered the chance to write a romantic travel piece, taking in turquoise oceans, tropical beaches, and a fairy-tale Scottish wedding, she knows it’s the opportunity she’s been waiting for. It’s the trip of a lifetime… but it comes with a catch. The photographer who’ll be travelling with her is Hunter Scott, who Mia last saw five years ago – when she ended their engagement!

Angelika und Hans haben sich ihren Ruhestand in Portugal anders vorgestellt: Sonne, Meer, endlich Zeit füreinander! Doch dann läuft ihnen eine temperamentvolle Mischlingshündin zu und wird von Angelika kurzerhand adoptiert. Fellina bringt fortan nicht nur Nachbars Katzen, sondern auch ihr Leben auf Trab. Mit der Ruhe ist es ganz vorbei, als Tochter Sandra zu Besuch kommt. Die Brummifahrerin ist seit Langem von ihrem Mann getrennt und fest entschlossen, Gefühle weiterhin nur in sehr geringen Dosen zuzulassen.

Lights Out meets Butcher & Blackbird in Dead Lift, a serial killer romcom from indie author Clio Evans Murdering a man isn't hard. Getting rid of the body, though? That’s another story. Forensic scientist Shelby has a simple plan. Get justice for her sister, kill the men who murdered her, and...

From a Booker Prize-longlisted author, a novel in which a woman tries to overcome her abusive past and find her estranged sister in a deeply moving and darkly funny quest for redemption Foul-mouthed, scrappy, and self-destructive, Steffie is her own worst enemy. Sustained by her sardonic sense...

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin's nightmarishly hilarious John Dies at the End series is back to entertain all who enter. And seriously, you can just start here. A massive, sticky pile of severed human limbs suddenly appears in the parking lot of a vacant department store in a...

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Tim Key returns with more comic chaos, musically supported by Tom Basden Award-winning comedian Tim Key is back with three more series of his peculiar poetry programme. Having presented the show from a houseboat, a space simulator and the top of the Shard, he now ventures even further afield in...

Fallow, by Sarah Anderson is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

From the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Save What’s Left comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue—and the life moments that led to its delay. Maria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk...

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries...

"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...

“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...

Everyone's favorite vampire odd couple is back for another bloody good time in this new supernatural mystery from the authors of Dead & Breakfast. Arthur Miller (no relation to the playwright) and his beloved, Salvatore Conte, are settling into their (para)normal lives in Trident Falls. Finally...

A sparkling enemies-to-lovers romance about a podcaster who embarks on a matchmaking tour of Ireland in the hopes of falling in love, only to butt heads with her broodingly handsome and grumpy driver. Maya Davis is chronically terrible at dating. So much so that she's turned her catastrophic...

'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and Lady Waring have...

Silicon Valley just invented time travel. Now, three reluctant heroes race to save the timeline before the resulting tech bubble bursts—and takes all of reality with it—in this satirical, hilariously plausible oral history. "Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters...

A family moves into their dream home—only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger—in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel. The new house is a fresh start for Claire and her family. It's a move away from the cityscape of a declining San Francisco and towards the...

For fans of Asako Yuzuki and Fleabag, an audacious, unhinged debut following the major humiliations and minor triumphs of an overworked, undersexed young woman in Tokyo who must save herself from the hazards of her own lust, obsession, and delusion. limerence. [li-mer-uhns] noun the state of...

The first official The Office Halloween storybook—a new classic for fans of all ages! Discover the legend of the Headless Salesman, a hilarious and haunting Dunder Mifflin ghost story, narrated by Kevin Malone (author Brian Baumgartner). On Halloween, listen for the sound of hoofs and the...