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A sensual, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in 18th century Provence who joins the nunnery in an attempt to reform her family’s reputation, only to discover how secrets and desire swirl in even the most unexpected of places, for fans of Lauren Groff's Matrix if it were written by...

From the author of Motherthing—When a teenage girl disappears from a supposedly haunted wood, everyone has a theory. Their stories are strange, but the truth is even stranger. When Janie Yearling disappears from the small town of Gold River, her parents, Calvin and Annette, immediately make...

"Thrilling and laugh-out-loud funny." —Freida McFadden A darkly humorous, twisted mystery from Amy Tintera, author of the New York Times bestseller Listen for the Lie Charlotte is George’s third wife. He’s much older than she is, and much richer. When George suddenly goes missing after a...

"One of my favorite writers in the world." —George Saunders From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Enter Lynette—actor, writer, director, showrunner and star of the final film in her head—is it a comedy, a...

From the bestselling author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Quiet on set, please. Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or...

The Wedding People meets Beth O'Leary! Maggie May has a lot going for her. A house in Cornwall. A fiancé. A sister. Unfortunately, her fiancé is sleeping with her sister. In her kitchen. Over her table. Ben Jones has his own problems. A lot of them. And a very questionable plan to fix them...

From the author of the bestselling Mouthing comes a wise and bittersweet novel about life and death, secrets and lies, and one small Irish family in crisis… Mick Farrell is the only funeral director in Ballyrowan. He is also a very unpopular man – pedantic, tight-fisted and stiff as a corpse...

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

Her awful boss has been murdered and everyone in the office is a suspect in this bright, witty, chaotic, and all-too-relatable mystery. Julia wants her boss dead. We’ve all been there. Who hasn’t spent hours daydreaming about the ways their egotistical, bullying, sexist, controlling boss...

A tale of family, love, nuclear war, and… UFOs; a classic novel from iconic Japanese author Yukio Mishima, available in English for the first time. Like nothing else that Mishima wrote, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that...

A comic romance set in the snowy north, from one of Japan’s most revered novelists. Available in English for the first time. Unimpressed by her marriage prospects, 20-year-old Natsuko Matsuura decides to pack it in and enter a convent. But en route to an abbey in the far north of Japan, she...

Margo’s Got Money Troubles gets a thrilling gothic twist in this delightful, darkly funny debut novel set in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. When Emma Propeller’s unreliable and narcissistic husband, James, fails to return home to her and their new baby from a business trip, she fears...

CAUTION! All employees must correctly dispose of otherworldly biohazards found on Dark Enterprises property. Failure to comply may result in one hell of a mess... "If a door is closed, you leave it alone." That's the one rule janitor, Sam, is given when he starts cleaning the infamous thirteenth...

“Mateo Askaripour is a writer of deep talent, great range, great skill, and very funny! What a pleasure to read his work.”—James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck: a dazzling, inspiring...

Lights Out meets Butcher & Blackbird in Dead Lift, a serial killer romcom from beloved author Clio Evans. Murdering a man isn't hard. Getting away with it? That's another story. Forensic scientist Shelby knows how to get away with murder. While she never intended to actually use her knowledge...

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him.

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

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 NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s wife pursue their passion –...