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When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium than to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? How about when he turns out to be a friend you haven’t seen in twenty years? Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way? Give...

Courtes fictions écrites à quatre mains, qui vous transporteront dans des univers variés, explorant les relations humaines avec une sensibilité féminine d'un côté et l'humour noir au masculin de l'autre. De l'ancien criminel qui revient à ses vieilles habitudes pour mieux se sauver, de la dame dont le métier tranquille va se révéler plus dangereux qu'elle le pensait et même du monstre mythique qui a un regain de conscience, bienvenue dans mon monde, un monde riche en personnages pauvres... La nostalgie, la perte, les relations, la famille sont parmi des thèmes récurrents que j'explore.

Ein bayerisches Dorf braucht Hilfe aus dem Jenseits. Xaver Gottwald, der Dorfpolizist, genießt sein Familienessen mit seinem Vater und seiner Tante. Die ist extra angereist, um an einer Séance teilzunehmen. Franz Abwerzger findet anstatt eines Riesenfischs eine Leiche. Sofort beginnt Xaver zu ermitteln und das führt ihn direkt zu Spirit-Us, wo auch der Tote auf einen Plausch vorbeischaut.

Patrick est déterminé à faire de son beau-fils une star du hockey mineur, dans le but évident d’éclipser le père. Ça patine sur la bottine sur la glace, mais ça joue dur dans les estrades : rivalité, trahisons et violence.

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK From the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss comes an achingly tender, poignant, funny and bittersweet story of love, loneliness and finding connection in the most unlikely of places. 'So smart, so funny, so moving – Mason has done it again, this time...

A darkly sharp, wryly funny and entirely delightful novel about bad mothers, problematic families, forgiveness and finally - reluctantly - growing up. Crimson's life has been indelibly shaped by her magnetic, clever, self-absorbed mother, Villy. When Crimson was nine, Villy fell in love with...

A young woman's deliciously unhinged descent into a feral and glamorous hell. A devoted lover and wannabe screenwriter, January is unable to love or write after finding out her (now ex) girlfriend has cheated. Restless and questioning it all, January and her stoic bestie, Laura, travel to a...

The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize (UK). “One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.” —Toronto Star...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 GILLER PRIZE From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Johnston comes a boisterous, sweeping tragicomic saga of faith, loyalty, and family secrets that refuse to stay buried At twenty-eight, Vivvy Holloway is nearly the same height as when she was five. Though she...

The hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It and The Murder After the Night Before 'I was rooting for Kitty even as she killed more men (oops!). Funny and twisty in the best of ways' Tasha Coryell *********************************************** My...

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against...

TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic! The last person who called me ‘Sweetpea’ ended up dead… ’I haven’t killed anyone for three years and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whisky. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful...

Bloomsbury presents Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery, read by Becca Stewart. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE NEW YORKER AND TIME NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by HARPER'S, THE GUARDIAN, BUSTLE, AND NYLON From the author Sally Rooney called “bold, irreverent, and agonizingly...

Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. ‘A cathartic novel, I hasten to point out, not a how-to guide’ Lucy Mangan, Good Housekeeping * * * * * He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t...

‘A fantasy that feels true. A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ Emily Henry ‘A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner’ Marian Keyes ‘It’s a thriller, it’s about friendships, it’s about finding your path, it’s a murder mystery, it’s just brilliant’ Reader review...

It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would...