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Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all - boyfriend, career, loyal best friend - until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona fide woman.  

Now a Pedro Almodóvar film - THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 'I was totally overwhelmed by this extraordinary novel. A total joy - and laugh-out-loud funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning...

Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, IRISH INDEPENDENT, I, THE ATLANTIC, PARIS REVIEW and LITERARY HUB 'A true...

한국 최고의 블랙 코미디 작가 곽재식!'곽재식 속도'로 달려온 여섯 번째 소설집, 이것이 곽재식이다!오랜만에 달달한 로맨스로 돌아온 '지상 최대의 내기'에서부터조회수 5만에 달하며 '환상문학웹진 거울' 서버를...

The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 – British Book Awards* ‘Addictive’ Grazia ‘Hugely entertaining’ Observer ‘Provocative’ Mail on Sunday THIS IS...

“The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun."" —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their...

Love Theoretically meets Lights Out in this swoony dark rom-com with a morally grey lead who wants to learn everything he can about the woman he’s obsessed with, but stalking her isn’t as easy as he anticipated. Summer keeps her dark fantasies close to her chest—and between the pages of...

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

The melodramatic romance by Goethe The Sorrows of the Young Werther, the story of a troubled aesthete who kills himself for love, was first published in 1774 and has since become one of the staples of German literature. Such extravagant productions lend themselves readily to parody and naturally attracted the attention of skilled satirists like Thomas Love Peacock.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. ALGO MALO PASÓ ANOCHE. PERO NO PUEDO RECORDAR NADA... Posey, mi mejor amiga, está muerta. La policía cree que fue un trágico accidente. Yo sé que fue asesinada. Me he despertado con una resaca de mil demonios, un desconocido en mi cama y me...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. AMIGA. AMANTE. ASESINA. Me estaba siguiendo. Hablo de aquel tío del club nocturno que no me dejaba en paz. Juro que no tenía intención de matarlo. Pero he de confesar que no me disgustó cuando lo hice y, a pesar de la que acabé liando...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. El humor, cuando vence, ilumina, porque la risa brilla Amelia, viuda y con los hijos ya mayores y lejos, traspasa el negocio familiar, alquila la casa y se marcha rumbo a un mar que añora. A mitad de camino se cruza con Marisol, una mujer con...

Cole Matthews definitely isn’t a stalker. Probably. Sure, he used company resources and crossed some lines to “have a conversation” with his sister’s abusive ex. But that was a one-time thing. Now, Cole has to attend a group therapy program with a long, clinical name … but the...

Tedd hat etwas Schlimmeres gefunden als Menschen, die Roboter hassen. Menschen, die welche sein wollen. Phoenix hat ein Ziel: jede Maschine zu töten, die selbstständig denkt. Und sie verdrahten ihre eigenen Schädel neu, um das zu erreichen. McKenzie ist zurück. Kahlgeschoren, tote Augen und ein Befehl: zerstöre sie alle. Wenn Tedd Phoenix nicht aufhält, bekommt jeder verbleibende Roboter eine Kugel und jeder Mensch, der widerspricht, einen Chip. Aber ist er bereit, das Mädchen zu töten, das er einst gerettet hat? Phoenix nannte sich die Zukunft der Menschheit.

Clio Louise Barnes es una influencer y estilista con una vida perfecta. Pero esa fachada empieza a resquebrajarse cuando, tras la muerte de su madre, recibe la noticia de que ha heredado, con sus dos hermanas, la casa de su infancia.

What if the solution to sexual harassment, assault, and the endless exhausting games of desire was simply... turning it off? Sarah Chen didn't set out to change the world. She was just a thirty-two-year-old HR consultant in Palo Alto, tired of her married boss photographing her feet under the...

Lauryn Harper had a plan. A high achieving, perfectly constructed, five-year plan. But after a (totally blown out of proportion) mishap at work that plan is put to the test. As punishment for her mistake she is transferred to the Ryser Charity Department, a branch of her corporation that just so happens to be located in the hometown she abandoned long ago—the same hometown that her powerful corporation is responsible for running into the ground.

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.

Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.