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Laurie Blount, the 'enfant terrible' of the West End, the voice of a generation, a shining star. Also: dead. Very, very dead. Reeling at being left behind, his husband Jo, best friend Vivi, and goddaughter Rosy must step out from the shadows and begin a new life, at their own pace. But scattered...

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from “one of our greatest living short story writers” (Esquire), the author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER AND ONE OF THE NEW YORKER AND ESQUIRE’S BEST...

Gritty, twisted and darkly hilarious, Bastard is a relentless crime thriller about justice, violence and what happens when one man takes it on himself to put the world straight – one beating at a time. Meet our narrator. He’s rich. He’s bored. He’s addicted to people-watching. And he’s an unapologetic bastard. But when this sharp-eyed loner starts spotting even bigger bastards – the abusive, the violent, the racist – he doesn’t just watch. He acts. With fists. With fury. With lessons no one forgets. Then he makes one mistake. He kills the wrong man, a prick in a suit with connections.

“A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.” —The New York Times From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died...

Louisiana gravedigger Noah Evans’s Valentine’s night shift takes an unexpected turn when his high school crush starts screaming from her freshly dug grave. Whoever tried to bury Emma six feet under is in for a nasty surprise—they should have checked for a pulse because she’s got unfinished business, starting with the hot gravedigger who just saved her life. As they unearth a deadly family conspiracy, Noah and Emma discover that old flames burn even hotter the second time around—especially when someone’s trying to kill them.

For fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer, a sharp and brilliant romp of a novel about a reformed sociopath trying to build a successful family life and find her perfect home in North London—whatever the cost Lalla Rook is happily in possession of an adoring husband, two...

August Shade needs a break. Reptilians are trying to take over the world. Powerful paranormals are a little too interested in whether he lives or dies. After years of laying low, the grumpy shapeshifter’s face is all over the internet. If that wasn’t bad enough, August’s best friend is playing around with necromancy. Desperate to clear his head, the cranky shapeshifter heads north to the shores of Lake Superior. Now he’s drowning in lake monsters, paranormal prophecies, and reptilian plots. A drink would help, but the only bar in town is a karaoke bar.

“Funny, chatty, weird, and at times unexpectedly poignant.” —Electric Literature Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this “one-of-a-kind debut” (Cosmopolitan) about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant...

""SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP! Cry Havoc is a fever worth catching, a gloomy and gorgeous pleasure."" — Maggie Thrash, author of Rainbow Black A humorous dark academia novel, set in a failing English girls’ school in the 1980s, in which a teen running from her past becomes immersed in a...

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary AwardFinalist for the Toronto Book AwardFrom the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. They have...

On her final shift before forced retirement, nurse Allison is ready to tell her story. But this is no ordinary farewell. As the hospital clock ticks towards midnight, she unravels a web of compassion, calculation, and cold-blooded justice that will make you question everything you know about care, mercy, and survival.

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of...

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel about a good marriage, bad mistakes, and the enduring power of your local library. Darcy’s life turned out better than she could have...

“Keenly observant and wryly funny. . . . A vital, utterly unexpected novel, Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is a fresh and riotous gift of fiction.” —Quill & Quire, *STARRED REVIEW!* A young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage in this...

Aspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect—walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday—to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred.

She’s 118 years old, four steps from glory and now she’s done playing nice. Sister Agatha has lived a long, saintly life across three centuries—only to be told, during a routine check–up, that she’s got just one week left to live. It’s a bit of an inconvenience, really. You see...

Clientes borrachos. Mapaches ladrones. Visitantes de otro mundo... Siendo el encargado del turno nocturno en la gasolinera de veinticuatro horas a las orillas del pueblo, Jack prácticamente ya lo ha visto todo. Eso es hasta que su mejor amigo le confiesa que tiene el cuerpo de un político local escondido en la cajuela de su coche, desatando una cadena de eventos con potencial apocalíptico.

Filosofia, religione e la strada per la pace nel mondo. C'è un po' di tutto in questo spregiudicato romanzo di Marco Lugli. Sette domande per Dio è un viaggio esilarante dentro un Bed & Breakfast che diventa improvvisamente il centro dell'universo quando Dio si manifesta concretamente agli uomini e si dichiara disponibile a rispondere a sette loro domande, ma è anche una satira bruciante della società moderna strangolata dalle catene del politicamente corretto. «Vi concedo di farmi sette domande.

Quando Mauro Boccoli, un dentista con una reputazione non proprio sterile, viene trovato morto nel suo studio, il commissario Di Stefano, la sua squadra e la PM Burigana si trovano a indagare su un omicidio che puzza, letteralmente, di letame. Tra un passato di vicini esasperati, collaboratori sfruttati e un'azienda agricola che nasconde più segreti di quanti ortaggi coltivi, il caso prende una piega inaspettata. Ad aiutare gli inquirenti, l'immancabile presenza dei Segugi.