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From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his...

Abridged novel depicting the sinister affair of the 18th century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie down.

Ever wondered why dogs don’t speak human languages? Simple: they know too much. If dogs ever started talking, they’d tell you exactly what they think and that would shatter every human illusion in one bark. No more polite nodding. No more “Who’s a good boy?” theatre. Just pure, unfiltered clarity. And clarity is dangerous. Enter Pepe: a highly opinionated, aggressively honest Jack Russell who has finally decided to break the silence. He’s here to explain the world as dogs actually see it... and trust me, you’re not ready.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Not every Lovecraft tale comes from the shadows. Writing as a genteel old gentleman recalling his youth in eighteenth-century London, Lovecraft steps entirely out of the cosmic and into the drawing room — offering a warm, witty portrait of Dr. Samuel...

Ein junges marokkanisches Fußballteam hält Amsterdam in Atem. Ein halbkrimineller jüdischer Geschäftsmann entdeckt plötzlich seine Bestimmung.

A humble clerk. A treasured overcoat. A loss that follows him beyond the grave. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin lives an invisible life in the freezing streets of St. Petersburg. Poorly paid, routinely mocked, and devoted to his monotonous work as a government copyist, he asks for little—until...

An ancient city. A perfect stranger. A single word that ruins everything. For the deeply refined Miss Winchelsea, a dream voyage to Rome is supposed to be an escape into art and poetry. Instead, amidst the sun-drenched, cypress-shadowed ruins of the Colosseum, she falls under the spell of a...

When underpaid and underappreciated executive assistant Neesha accepts a quiet job as the estate manager for a retired death doula in rural Wisconsin, she expects document prep and scheduling support, not phantoms and lunar rituals. But her new assignment isn’t just off the grid. It’s off this plane of existence. Once a classic Midwestern summer camp, the property has decayed into a crumbling manor full of forgotten chores, faded tea tins, and the long-neglected dead.

Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must...

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, "a hippy-looking twonk", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - to his...

Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis...

A hilarious, biting satire of the United States and its unpredictable leader from the best-selling author of The Circle The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins...

Only weeks since her release from Borstal, Alice is a candidate for the position of junior nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments. With guidance from the working nurse’s manual, Alice brings support to thousands of patients. In the process, she attracts the attention of a lovesick...

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Napoleon has England on edge. For the cunning and conniving Becky Sharp, it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and improve her lowly station. Her friend Amelia Sedley, a blue-blood pawn, affords Becky entrée into the moneyed class. As the guileless Amelia pines for a rakish soldier, the ruthless Becky climbs upward, setting the stage for a domestic battlefield of greed, ambition, deception, and dizzying reversals of love and fortune.

Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Kurt Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.

Prepare for the most uproariously grim tour of Tudor England ever recorded! Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett's classic satire skewers the so-called "golden age" of English monarchy, revealing the Tudors as they truly were: a parade of tyrants, schemers, and royal disasters who treated their subjects like pawns in a deadly game of power.

Step into a whimsical, prehistoric England where myths come alive and bravery is a matter of perspective. The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill by Max Beerbohm is a delightful satirical fable that blends gentle humor with timeless themes of courage, self-discovery, and community.

Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters—'Juice' Terry Lawson—that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent...