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'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, The Times Richly imagined and...

Astrid muss weg von daheim! Sie findet heraus, dass ihr Partner sie betrügt, und will ihren Herzschmerz in Venedig kurieren, einem Sehnsuchtsort ihrer Bucketlist. Nichts lenkt besser von einer traumatischen Trennung ab, als die wunderschöne Serenissima. Denkt Astrid. Aber: Statt romantischem...

Featuring an exclusive conversation with Logic and Steve Blum From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name. In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer...

Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success.

BEAUTY IS PAIN . . . Exploring themes of ambition, authenticity and empowerment, this taut, politically charged feminist thriller delivers a scathing take-down of the wellness industry, perfect for fans of The Drop Out and Yellowface. 'A propulsive read with a healthy dose of cynicism' - The...

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

Timothy is a serial killer. He's also very lonely. He's a walking contradiction, and his psychological predicament doesn't escape him. Lynnette is a vampire. She's also a nurse. She, too, is a walking contradiction. When she unexpectedly answers his desperate call for company, they realize they could be perfect partners in crime, engaging in a few kinds of bloodwork at once, bringing out the worst and the best in each other.

Nur über meine Leiche | britischer Kriminalroman mit Witz und Charme Die geniale Autorin Maz Evans schreibt exzentrisch, witzig und charmant über eine Frau, die ihren eigenen Tod aufklären muss! »Hallo? Können Sie mich hören? Wahrscheinlich nicht. Ich bin Dr. Miriam Price ... und ich bin...

Die 48-jährige Liv ist Ehefrau, Mutter von drei Kindern und arbeitet erfolgreich als Küchenplanerin. Mit den Wechseljahren hat sie sich noch nie befasst. Stimmungsschwankungen, Hitzewallungen, klar, davon hat sie schon gehört. Aber dass eine Hitzewallung tödlich enden kann, damit hätte sie nun wirklich nicht gerechnet. Und wahrscheinlich auch nicht der Typ, der ihrem pubertierenden Sohn eigentlich nur ein paar Drogen verkaufen will und Liv dabei so provoziert, dass sie ihm den Schädel einschlägt. Ab da gerät ihr wohlgeordnetes Leben gehörig aus den Fugen.

The star of this crime comedy short story knows the secret to being a real man in full and he needs to share it with you. Of course, you have a full pitcher of beer and all his chaos is someone else's problem. This funny wild ride ends with his very questionable wisdom.

Conor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts. One of his first students is Catherine, a magnetic divorcée keen to hire him for more than advice on her serve. What begins as a transactional arrangement soon develops into an intoxicating sexual relationship. Things become even more complicated when Conor encounters Emily, with whom he has his first taste of real intimacy.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ""BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024"" From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A...

Dass Alex nach den turbulenten Ereignissen der Geiselnahme etwas verändert ist, war ja schon aufgefallen. Nun aber stellt sich heraus, dass der Unterschied größer ist, als gedacht, da der treue Praktikant vor Wochen verschleppt und durch seinen Zwillingsbruder Axel ersetzt wurde! Doch dem ursprünglichen Alex ist die Flucht gelungen und er kämpft darum, seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück zu bekommen. Welcher der beiden wird sich durchsetzen? Und wird der Rest der Firma überhaupt etwas von ihrem Kampf bemerken?

When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with 18-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose hobbies include playing the fiddle and telling folktales - many of them about female rebellion and disobedience, and seeking justice, whatever it takes. But beneath the surface of the apparently friendly and peaceful pastoral surface of the farm, something darker and less harmonic starts to vibrate.

O’Leary’s new collection is a frank, unflinching follow-up to 2017’s successful DICK CHENEY SHOT ME IN THE FACE. Here O’Leary does the impossible: dive into the psyches of the most destructive men– a stalker, a Klansman, public shooters— and creates narratives that neither rationalize, nor over-empathize. Refreshingly, these stories deliver both valuable insight, and perspective-enhancing humor.

Lance Derringer has left behind the accidental run in with the Vampire hotel and the revamping, in the hopes of living a normal life. Will her leaving him, help him cast out his own darkness and provide inspiration for him to turn his life around or will he go back to hunting vampires? On a road trip across the country, with his furry canine companion Dirk Lance begins to realize that his past is catching up to him, even as tries to lose himself, in the guise of Trooper X supernatural investigator.

La solitude à deux, tel était le rêve d'Emile et de Juliette. Une maison au fond des bois pour y finir leurs jours, l'un près de l'autre. Etrangement, cette parfaite thébaïde comportait un voisin. Un nommé Palamède Bernardin, qui d'abord est venu se présenter, puis a pris l'habitude de s'incruster chez eux chaque après-midi, de quatre à six heures. Sans dire un mot, ou presque. Et cette présence absurde va peu à peu devenir plus dérangeante pour le couple que toutes les foules du monde.

A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past ... and a town full of secrets. Can the truth ever be found in a town called Treachery? 'One of the Australian crime novels of the year ... A new Australian talent' The Australian 'One of a kind' Malcolm Knox 'The best journo-noir...

Beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five years old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane. From the master of the short short comes a collection of sixteen new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging.

Das beste Weihnachtsbuch für WeihnachtshasserWir alle kennen sie: Die schrillen Glockenklänge, die duftenden Tannennadeln, die zuckersüßen Plätzchen und die herzerwärmenden Lieder. Weihnachten, die „schönste Zeit des Jahres“. Doch was, wenn die "Most Wonderful Time" für dich eher die "Most Stressful Time" ist? Wenn du bei dem Gedanken an Weihnachten nicht an harmonische Familienabende, sondern an hektisches Geschenkeshopping, unerträgliches Dauergedudel von "Last Christmas" und den Horror des Geschenkpapier-Recyclings denkst?