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He was the everyman. He had a job. He had a wife. He had a kid. Then, stuff happened. What did he do? Did he give up? Did he roll over and die? Find out in the defining novel of the century. It might just change your life.

Gathered together for the first time and featuring two brand new stories, this collection contains all of the short stories and novellas featuring Bunny McGarry, star of the million-selling Dublin Trilogy. Spanning his entire career in law enforcement and beyond, these stories give a whole new perspective on Ireland’s most truly unconventional police officer as he juggles being a force for justice and managing the world’s worst under-12s hurling team.

Everything about Lilah Stohler is dark: her clothes, her mood, and her outlook on life and death. That last part is important because Lilah’s father has just retired and left her in charge of Stohler’s Funeral Home. But Abel Stohler knows his daughter’s comfort level rests “downstairs”, so he hires one Sparkle Lee Sink to help Lilah manage the living part of the business of death. Sparkle is everything that Lilah isn’t—an empathetic marketing whiz who is a true people person.

Seit er denken kann, ist Dirk unfähig, Angst zu empfinden. Kurz vor seinem achtzehnten Geburtstag schickt seine Mutter ihn in eine Nervenheilanstalt. Durch die Therapiesitzungen findet er einen Beruf, der zu ihm passt: Auftragskiller. Nachdem er Angora kennengelernt hat und Dirk als geheilt entlassen wird, scheint seine Welt perfekt. Doch dann tritt die Angst in Erscheinung.

'Been reading this on m'olidays. It's perfectly ridiculous & also v funny...' DAWN FRENCH 'Curtain Call To Murder positively explodes with the double-entendres and vicious wit that has become his trademark.' DAILY EXPRESS 'Utterly hilarious & thrillingly disgusting' MIRIAM MARGOYLES A murder on...

Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers. Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian. Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru. These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's been lying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement...

Harper's hobby is cute, Giovanni thinks. The spells, the potions, the moonlight rituals. Giovanni's traits are annoying, Harper thinks. He doesn't listen, he's allergic to her cats, and maybe he's done something unforgivable. Exes suck. Cats rule.

She married him for better or worse. But no one mentioned the ex-wife. When saying 'I do' to the love of her life, it didn't matter to Marie that Scott had been married before. But four years later, it's a different story. These days, Marie feels as though Scott sees more of his first wife and...

It’s the night of the Rose City Ripe for Disruption gala—a gathering of Portland’s elite. Dressed to kill in sparkling minidresses, best friends Lisa and Jamie attend as “paid to party” girls. They plan an evening of fake flirtations, karaoke playlists, and of course, grazing the catering. Past and present collide when Lisa stumbles across Ellen, a ruthless politician who also happens to be Lisa’s estranged mother. Awkward . . .

A "hilarious, suspense-filled" dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to use this as inspiration for his next book (Entertainment Weekly). A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a...

Die Agentur „Schön und Schöner“ ist auf der Suche nach natürlich aussehenden Models für eine Büromöbel-Kampagne und wurde offenbar so schlecht beraten, dass sie bei Heff anfragt. Selbstverständlich wird der Job angenommen und selbstverständlich entbrennt sogleich ein Wettbewerb unter den Angestellten, ob nicht einer von ihnen eine glamouröse Model-Karriere abgreifen kann.

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free AI, Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists...

Ellen is tired of being overshadowed at work. Tired of watching less competent, entitled suits take the promotions she’s earned. But when one of them pushes her too far, things take a murderous turn. And it turns out the darker Ellen goes, the shinier her future starts to look. Business can be murder, but it turns out murder can also be good business for Ellen.

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

Cy has had his monster license taken away, and he has been reclassified as a Pirate, on account of him just being a normal guy with just one eye. The Pirates life is not for Cy so when an opportunity to get his license reinstated presents itself, Cy embarks on a quest, of some kind, with some people of some description, to get something or other.

Explore the green and nether regions of the South West with ‘Bob Bradman’s Bed & Breakfast’; join Quentin Montreal for ‘New Movements’, as he looks into such disturbing trends as the suffragette diet, fox hunting in Maida Vale and blind motor racing; and help yourself to a heaped spoonful of Sugar Cane, the sultry Detective Sergeant whose hand is firmly wrapped around the throbbing pulse of crime.

When a pile of sh!t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a journey up a cosmic mountain of excrement with the director and his film crew as they ascend into madness led only by their own vanity and obsession. This is a nightmare about creation. This is a dream about poop. This is a call to arms against vowels.

'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...