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It’s the end of the millennium and death is on the horizon. American writer Samson Young absconds to England with a terminal illness and a bad case of writer’s block, his flight across the Atlantic a last-ditch attempt to find a good story before it’s too late. What he discovers, in a dark...

Named one of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language, Money is “savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock” (The Washington Post). Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Originally published...

Poppy Leathers has two work lives. The job everyone knows she has: manager to art influencer extraordinaire Jason Tasker. The other job: assistant to Brooklyn's premier artisanal hitman, Atticus Garcia. Two different worlds, all the same crap. Undervalued and constantly taken for granted, Poppy reaches her breaking point when her art boss decides he' s desperate to adopt a baby—by any means necessary—and her hitman boss has fallen into an ennui that has left him ready to retire—a major health hazard for anyone with her institutional knowledge.

A family moves into their dream home—only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger—in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel. “Doty’s devilishly voracious novel ended up devouring me.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes and Devil...

The internationally acclaimed #1 bestselling thriller, now in English. This program features multicast narration. "This is one creepy tale of cannibalism, made palatable by terrific narrators who capture the characters and the urgency of the plot." — Kirkus “This rollercoaster of a novel is...

After a global disaster prompts thousands of impossibly unlikely deaths, a bisexual statistics professor?who has convinced herself she might not exist?and an ethically dubious government agent must travel to Las Vegas to unravel the connection between deadly bouts of absurdity and a...

Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance—with a pangolin. Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana's care and...

From the author of THE NIGHTMARE ROOM and SUCKERVILLE . . . Derek Stratton, a widowed storm chaser and huckster, is doing his best to support his daughter. Their lives take a dangerous turn when a colossal tornado releases a swarm of prehistoric bees from the Colorado soil, plunging them into a...

Tedd hat gerade das Ende der Welt überlebt. Langsam wünschte er sich, er hätte es nicht … Der Manager ist auf dem Weg nach Norden. Was auch immer er dort oben baut, er sorgt verdammt gut dafür, dass niemand lange genug lebt, um es herauszufinden. Tedd hat einen radioaktiven Spinnenbot, eine Handvoll Überlebende und absolut kein Recht, irgendjemandes letzte Hoffnung zu sein. Aber er ist alles, was sie haben. Das Ende der Welt war erst der Anfang.

Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines. Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy.

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.

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.

For fans of Lights Out and You, this follow-up to Love Me Stalk Me is a dark rom-com about a woman matched with her fantasy boyfriend by an AI app—unaware he’s actually her ex-husband, back to win her over in disguise. When Amanda Bennett signs up for the beta feature of the Obsess AI...

In her debut Audible memoir, Lady Miss Jacqueline (Oscar-winning child star, nightclub magnate, crystal empress, and self-proclaimed beacon of hope) finally tells her story in her own inimitable voice. From a gold-plated birth canal in Newport to surviving a shipwreck in nothing but a satin nightgown, from inspiring talk show legends to gifting Rolls Royces by Zeppelin to her nightclub staff in Ibiza, Lady Miss recounts the greatest moments of her lives (past and present) with the confidence of a woman who has never once been wrong, and the heart of one who occasionally suspects she might be.

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 using behind the scenes...

A collection of short stories from the celebrated irish writer and dramatist: Oscar Wilde. Included within this collection are the stories: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: Lady Windermere's pet palm-reader delivers a fearful oracle to Lord Arthur, but being a resolute gentlemen he knows just what to...

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has just been offered his first paid detective gig, which means going on the road with gender-fluid rock star JonniK, tagging along as the musician's entourage travels from Berlin to Brussels and beyond. Jonni's manager is already worried by a guitar tech's fatal overdose on a tour bus, but then the star himself is attacked on stage... Another shock comes as Jonni's lead guitarist is electrocuted by his own instrument in the middle of a gig.

The complete short stories of Beryl Bainbridge, including the novella Filthy Lucre – written when the author was only 13 years old. Bainbridge's exquisite, devastating skill for skewering characters in all their pomposity, fallibilities, vulnerability and humour, not to mention their capability for cruelty, is fully on display in this collection, accompanied by classic Bainbridge backdrops of seedy hotel rooms, dusty theatres and the twilight zone of lodging houses.

When Prince Harry sues Prince William for "wilful and malicious sibling rivalry," the sensational claims from Spare finally face their day in court. But as the proceedings unfold, it's not just the brothers on trial – suddenly the very suitability of Wills and Kate as Britain's future King and Queen is thrown into doubt. The timing couldn't be more disastrous. Charles and Camilla are preparing to abdicate for a blissful retirement in Mustique, leaving the throne dangerously exposed just as the monarchy becomes the centre of the most explosive trial of the century.

May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she—and everyone else in the shop—receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation—and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead. As disturbing texts continue to arrive, the Blackheath residents are threatened with further revelations and titillations. Then Fletcher becomes the focus of the tormenting texter, and barely escapes an attempt on his life.