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When single mum Lou moves from the chaos of Dublin to a forgotten seaside cottage in Dingle, she hopes for a calmer life for her son, Jack – a place where he can grow up surrounded by the warmth of a small community. But village life isn't without its challenges. The cottage needs work and Lou needs a job, but at least Jack quickly makes friends – including Bo, the spirited daughter of Aidan, the head chef of the restaurant where Lou eventually finds work. Aidan is serious, skilled, and a little distant, yet there's something about him Lou is drawn to.

Two best friends. One apartment. Zero chance of this going to plan. Austin and Sydney have been best friends since he moved into her shoebox apartment in New York City over a decade ago. Now in their early thirties and living with their long-term partners, their lives are finally on track...

Ocean's Eleven meets the Golden Girls when an all-female group of chaotic, elderly thieves come out of retirement for one last heist against a young Crypto-loving DudeBro-type... while trying to repair their fractured friendship along the way. For fans of Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain...

Ky, Mick, Liz, and Rosie are still getting money—but somebody keeps sending them the bill. From broken relationships to problems they didn’t start, the cost of winning keeps climbing. Old grudges resurface, enemies lurk in the shadows, and the past refuses to let them breathe. Nobody wants to see them succeed, but they’ve never needed permission. Tested, targeted, and underestimated, they’re about to prove why they always survive… and always win.

How do you outrun the family curse? What if you can't? Fresh out of grad school in Michigan, on the brink of despair, directionless, David worries his parents. They don't know what to do for him, they don't know how to heal him. His doctor suggests that he needs to gain some perspective, get to...

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Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favourite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong? J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can't meet that need, just like she can't meet Jason's need for rough sex and bondage. With some encouragement from a few other lovers in Anita's life she reluctantly agrees, and J.J.

Blake and Lucy were once inseparable - two girls bound by secrets, dares, and the kind of friendship that cuts deeper than blood. Until the day everything shattered. Years later, Blake's life is collapsing, and the only way to fix it is to confront the past she's tried so hard to forget. She forces herself to reach out to Lucy in a letter, a first step toward redemption. But as Blake begins to write, unsettling memories surface. Shadows she thought she'd buried twist into new shapes. And she starts to wonder: What if the strange little girl didn't stay little?

“An intimate story of self-discovery.” —Orhan Pamuk A dreamy debut novel about the summer love that changes two girls at the edge of adulthood. “In the heat and the green haze that seemed to surround us both like a physical presence, I felt intensely awake.” One afternoon at the start...

Huit femmes embarquent pour un road-trip de deux semaines en Islande. Elles n’ont rien en commun, ou presque. Il y a Rose et Lou, le duo mère-fille; Stéphanie, célibataire sans enfant; Sarah et Chloé, les deux jeunes Parisiennes; Delphine, la cinquantenaire casanière; Carole, la prof de yoga, et Nadine, la retraitée renfrognée. Entre écarts générationnels, personnalités et visions de la vie différentes, il n’est pas toujours facile de faire groupe. Pourtant, de cascades en confidences, de marches en révélations, ce voyage pourrait les transformer.

Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighbourhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Three heartwarming reunions unfold at this visit to the Torunka Café. Chiyoko, an elderly woman who has been frequenting the cafe for 20 years, reflects on her long-forgotten memories of her first love; Kota, a childhood friend of the owner's daughter Shizuku, reveals his complicated true feelings held deep within; and Ayako, an aspiring illustrator at a crossroads in her life, embarks on a journey.

Full-cast dramatisations of three acclaimed novels by Elizabeth Taylor – including Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – plus 17 readings of her short fiction Described by Antonia Fraser as ‘one of the most underrated novelists of the 20th century’, Elizabeth Taylor was much admired for her...

När ditt gamla liv upphör att existera är det dags att bygga ett nytt. Det är försommar på den franska Rivieran när Vivienne Wilson anländer för att delta i en skrivarkurs för kvinnor. På plats i Rivieran för att ta hand om den chockade Vivienne är den nyblivna änka Maxine Zonszain, som försöker hitta livsglädje efter sin mans plötsliga död. I villan bor även Olivia Murray. Livet under sommarsolen i Antibes blir omvälvande för alla tre kvinnorna. Hemligheter delas och vänskapsband knyts.

Amsterdam, 1940: Schoolteacher Aletta knows the war will soon reach her and the Jewish children in her class. When her family hide an injured Allied airman in their home, they must decide: how much will they risk when resistance could prove deadly? Paris, 1940: Since her mother’s death, Chloe has dedicated herself to protecting her brothers. So when the SS accuses Claude of being in the Resistance, she sacrifices herself to save him.

The dazzling, evocative, and tender-hearted story of two women struggling to reconcile the friendship they remember with the reality of their current lives, for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Layne Fargo, and Allison Larkin. Los Angeles, 1987: Dulcie arrives on the Sunset Strip chasing a feeling...

Tucked away on a cobblestone street in enchanting Bologna, Italy, is the only English bookstore in the city. It’s owned by prickly Sandy Cooke, who keeps love, and even romantic fiction, at a distance. Her employee, timid and hopelessly optimistic Moira, dreams of transforming the struggling shop into a vibrant community hub. Against the odds, one Bolognese summer, it becomes a haven for fellow expats at their own crossroads.

Die erfolgreiche Immobilienmaklerin Emily Fischer reist von Berlin in den Küstenort Bournemouth, um dort für ihren Chef die Übernahme eines Immobilienbüros einzuleiten. Am Pier trifft sie auf den attraktiven Cafébesitzer Jonah und auf Suzi, ein kleines Mädchen, das eindeutig vernachlässigt wirkt. Emily weiß, dass ihre Zeit in Bournemouth begrenzt ist.

Brought to you by Penguin. Every witch knows that playing with magic is a risky game... Nyssa Hawthorne is at the top of her game: as a high-flying mage leading a coven, she has everything she’s ever wanted. But her job requires long days, late nights and endless spell-casting - this witch is...

Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will...

The acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing. At 27...

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Erin Merritt has returned to her scenic hometown of Heart Lake to plan her wedding, but when she repeatedly runs into her childhood crush, she wonders if she's engaged to the wrong man. To make matters worse, all the stress is making her eat, and now she can't fit into her wedding dress. Erin enlists the help of her cooking club—Angela, Megan, and Kizzy—and the Teeny Bikini Diet Club is born. The women make a pact to get slim enough to wear their bikinis to the lake by summertime, a pact that changes their lives forever.

Dramatised readings from the award-winning Jan Carson, plus bonus interview with the author herself Northern Irish writer Jan Carson won the EU Prize for Literature 2019 for her novel The Fire Starters, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Her work has been...

Wie Begegnungen unser Leben verändern. Dieses Buch zeigt die unausweichliche Wahrheit auf, dass alle Leben miteinander verwoben und wir für unsere Handlungen verantwortlich sind, genauso wie für die Freude und das Leid der anderen. Nach dem Überraschungserfolg von 23 Leben kommt nun der 2. Band der außergewöhnlichen Buchreihe.

Friends from different walks of life all share a common thread of living in a broken system, where the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. After the pandemic, with the cost of living increasing due to inflation, each and every friend finds their existence and mental health being tested.

Rita quiere escribir una novela. O quizá quiere dejar de mentir cuando dice que lo está haciendo. Han pasado ocho años desde que descubrió su vocación en Atlanta, rodeada de una familia peculiar, y desde entonces encadena trabajos precarios y bocadillos de fuet y vive con la sensación constante de no pertenecer a ninguna parte.

In the heart of Chicago, recently widowed forty-five-year-old Angie Sortino finds herself at a crossroads. After she discovers that her deceased husband has left her penniless, Angie's spirited niece, Gina, and Gina's best friend, Kim, approach her with the idea of starting a catering company targeting funeral parlors. Angie embarks on this new venture, discovering the challenges of the catering business.

When a group of middle-aged friends accidentally receives a city youth-sports grant, they do what any responsible adults would do—they spend it on go-karts and form a racing team called The Rusty Sprockets. What follows is a chaotic, heartfelt misadventure involving garage politics, spreadsheets taken far too seriously, social-media fame nobody asked for, suspicious municipal auditors, and a rival team that actually knows what they’re doing.

Zwei Freunde, ein Traum – und ein Schicksalsschlag, der alles verändert. Als die beiden Freunde Tobias und Florian eine Vermittlung zwischen Hundeliebhabern gründen, träumen sie von Selbstständigkeit, Investoren und einem sorgenfreien Leben. Vielleicht will Tobias dann sogar in die Familienplanung mit seiner Frau Katharina starten. Doch als er nach einem Unfall ins Koma fällt, steht nicht nur das Unternehmen auf dem Spiel, sondern auch seine Freundschaft zu Florian und seine Ehe.

Alicia deja su ciudad natal para estudiar Filosofía en Madrid, convencida de que allí encontrará compañeros con los que hablar de libros y profesores capaces de cambiarle la vida. Seducida por un grupo de estudiantes tan inteligentes como crueles, pronto descubrirá que el saber no siempre es sinónimo de virtud, pues en las aulas reina la arrogancia, y la brillantez intelectual convive con la precariedad, el cinismo y las miserias cotidianas.