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A dazzlingly original and bleakly funny debut novel that follows one harried working mother before and after a devastating weather event, capturing the everyday wonders and infuriating indignities of mothering in a time of ecological crisis. Thea spends her days among stubborn animals, many of...

This audio edition is read by Audie-Award winning narrator, Marin Ireland! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives —...

Harriet Smith investigates...A murder most Austen. A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen’s Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer in the genteel village of Highbury. “Seldom, very seldom...

A French chateau. A forest with secrets. A magical spring. Welcome to La Chanson, where lost souls are found again… At the brink of summer, Callie arrives in a secluded village in the South of France with her young daughter, after barely escaping her menacing ex-partner. Desperate to hide, she...

Ten-year-old Agata’s world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known orphanage, hidden from everything she’s ever known. Agata auditions for the conservatory style music school where music is both salvation and spectacle.

Deux fois veuve, à la tête d'un domaine qui tombe en ruine et criblée de dettes, elle s'accroche à la respectabilité que lui confère le titre de son défunt mari, consciente que ses filles ne seront à l'abri du besoin qu'une fois mariées. Alors quand un messager de la cour se présente avec une invitation au bal royal, elle y voit la chance d'assurer enfin leur avenir. Mais seule Elin, sa belle-fille, a été invitée... Ravalant son orgueil, Ethel va plaider la cause de ses filles auprès de la reine, avec qui elle partage une vieille inimitié.

Anvers, années 70. Le jeune Bennie Goodman sait que son père Moshé aimerait mieux le voir à la synagogue qu'à fureter dans les ruelles du quartier des diamantaires. Mais c'est plus fort que lui : la prière l'ennuie, le diamant le fascine. Après tout, c'est dans ce secteur que son grand-père Yéhuda a fait fortune, et quoique le patriarche ait coupé les ponts avec son fils et son petit-fils, ce dernier ne peut réprimer sa fascination. Des ateliers de taille aux vastes salles de négoce de la Bourse, Bennie ne renoncera devant rien pour se faire sa place et un nom.

Elizabeth Zhang knows her place in the world. She knows she’s in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, and the ninety-ninth percentile for academics. With a hard-working ethic instilled in her by immigrant parents, armed with impeccable grades...

A magical underwater fantasy inspired by Korean folklore – based Julia Riew's viral TikTok musical, Dive If you had pulled me aside and told me I’d soon be known as the hero who saved my people from total destruction, I probably would’ve laughed in your face … Every year, the girls on...

En apparence, Diane forme un couple parfait avec Hervé, son mari : une jolie maison, une fille qui a pris son envol, un groupe d’amis fidèles et elle possède sa propre boutique de décoration qui ne désemplit pas. Pourtant, une petite boule s’est logée dans sa gorge et ne cesse de...

A selection of Euripides’ renowned Greek tragedies, adapted for BBC Radio Acclaimed by Aristotle as ‘the most tragic of the poets’, Euripides was one of the pre-eminent playwrights of 5th century Athens. Included here are seven of his masterpieces: powerful, shocking tales of passion...

Brought to you by Penguin. The heartbreaking Japanese classic telling the story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their...

'An astonishing talent' Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds 'One of my favourite living writers' Jeff VanderMeer Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos from her smaller home city of Ibadan, ready to begin her life. With a brand-new degree in communications, she is placed on an...

Two full-cast adaptations from the iconic Australian feminist novelist, Miles Franklin These stunning dramatisations recount the life of an impassioned, ambitious Australian heroine, frustrated by rural bush life at the turn of the last century. Born in 1879, writer Stella Miles Franklin grew up...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Smallie’: A Caribbean adjective for ‘Small Islander’ In 1961, nineteen-year-old Lucinda Brown travels to England in search of her son’s father, Clarence Braithwaite, who left Barbados to join the British army. But aboard the ship to Southampton she meets a...

"A stunning collection that lingers in the mind and heart" Ruth Ozeki "I've been yearning for the whole world to read Kim Choyeop and fall in love with her as I did" Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny and The Midnight Timetable FOR FANS OF DALLERGUT DREAM DEPARTMENT STORE AND CURSED BUNNY...

Julieta es una chica de catorce años que busca el sentido de su vida en el México de los años sesenta, entre el rock y los movimientos feministas, la revolución sexual y la rebelión estudiantil frente a la dictadura del PRI. Clara, su madre, es una carismática psicóloga que lucha por los derechos de las mujeres, hija de exiliados españoles sobrevivientes de la persecución antirrepublicana de la dictadura franquista. Todo cambia cuando Julieta acompaña a su madre a las marchas del 2 de octubre de 1968 y a la que culmina el 10 de octubre de 1971, conocida como el Halconazo.

En cada palabra que escribo, dejo un pedazo de lo que siento. Hay ausencias que solo encuentran su voz en el papel, recuerdos que se convierten en versos cuando el corazón calla. Y en cada línea, un eco de amor, de nostalgia y de un adiós que nunca se olvida. Perder a alguien cambia muchas cosas. No siempre de golpe. A veces solo te das cuenta de que ya no eres el mismo de antes. Este espacio es para quienes atraviesan ese momento. Para quienes siguen adelante mientras por dentro algo duele. Para que quien lo lea sepa que no está solo en ese dolor.

Um pai ausente busca o filho no internato quando ele comete um ato de violência chocante. A babá de uma família de celebridades se refugia em um rancho após um escândalo ser estampado nos tabloides. Uma jovem vende suas roupas íntimas para estranhos. Um hóspede famoso se interna em uma clínica de reabilitação no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos.

A love letter to the rookie in all of us: Singer-actor Joshua Bassett's fearless memoir in verse about surviving the darkest moments of fame, addiction, and mental health struggles—and finding hope on the other side. "We're all figuring it out as we go along. Even the 'pros.'" This brutally...