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Gregor, a travelling salesman, awakens one morning only to discover that he has transformed into a giant insect. His family is repulsed by him not knowing what to do. Gradually things start getting overturned because of the mishap, and Gregor's life crashes like a house of cards. The...

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

At the age of twenty-nine, tired of trying to get along with members of his crew and tired of the money going into somebody else’s pocket, Natch begins working for himself, climbing and cutting down trees in the foothills of north Georgia. He has his truck, ropes, climbing gear, and a rotating selection of secondhand saws he finds at pawn shops and flea markets. He is free to work as he pleases. And he believes he is fine with his life as it is, living alone in an old hunting cabin at the end of a dirt lane.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anna Popplewell, best known for her leading role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Stevie Davies. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of...

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will...

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

*Don't miss A Murder in Paris, the brand new twisty thriller from Matthew Blake, available to buy now* THE SMASH HIT NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ~ A GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH ~ TV IN DEVELOPMENT WITH NETFLIX IT’S THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY Everyone knows the Anna O case...

An emotionally charged debut novel of a family on the brink--an autistic child, his determined mother, and her distant father--who learn that when your world changes, you find out who you really are. . . . While she was growing up, Piper's father, Lance "the Silver Eagle" Whitman, became a...

The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

NOW AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to...

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, The Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface, this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but soon basic facts become obscure and the listener realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although The Blind Owl has been compared to the works of Kafka and Poe, it defies categorization. By preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English listener into the world of The Blind Owl as never before.

When Justin walks out on Alice on their honeymoon, with no explanation apart from a cryptic note, Alice is left alone and bewildered, her life in pieces. Then she meets Evelyn, a visitor to the gallery where she works. It's a seemingly chance encounter, but Alice gradually learns that Evelyn has motives, and a heartbreaking story, of her own. And that story has haunting parallels with Alice's life. As Alice delves into the mystery of why Justin left her, the questions are obvious. But the answers may lie in the most unlikely of places...

The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” (USA TODAY). Adapted into the classic film Misery (1990). Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his...

Funny, smart, damaged, Tom is lost in the machinery of the British mental health system, talking to a voice no one else can hear; the voice of Malamock, the Octopus God—sometimes loving, sometimes cruel, but always there to fill his life with meaning. Once an outstanding law student, Tom is now cared for by his long-suffering sister Tess, who encourages him into an experimental drugs trial that promises to silence the voice forever. The Octopus God, however, does not take kindly to being threatened...

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply...

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and...

“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The Atlantic After salaryman Hanio...

An author retreats to a remote cabin to finish a long-overdue novel. Alone with a mysterious device — a living diorama that brings scenes to life — the writing begins to flow again. Characters form. A world takes shape. And for the first time in months, the story feels real. Too real. Inside the diorama, Dylan and Sinéad are trying to hold their marriage together after devastating loss. But something is wrong. Time slips. Behaviour changes. Each suspects the other is breaking. The author watches it unfold… and begins to realise the story is no longer entirely under their control.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE MESMERISING FINAL NOVEL BY THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF HOTEL DU LAC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY ‘He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren...

Succession meets The Guest List in Darby Kane’s newest novel where rich people are doing terrible things, including murder. There’s no telling how far these weekend guests will go to be the next heir of the Benedict estate… For the second time in ten years a body drifted in the water at...

She survived history. Now she’s making it. Mayyada al-Rahbani was seven when she sprinted through the date orchards of Dujail while Saddam Hussein executed her family. Her escape made international headlines as she navigated a war zone and found refuge in Kuwait City. Renamed Maya and raised by adoptive North American parents, she spent the next four decades running—from journalists, intimacy, her marriage, and into the anonymity of strangers’ beds. But everything changes when Maya performs a life-saving abortion on a thirteen-year-old girl.

Crimen y castigo es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskólnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de una usurera. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz de convivir. De una manera magistral relata el sufrimiento, los estados de confusión, los sueños y los delirios del protagonista. Así como la redención de un criminal a través del amor.

Alba has spent her life unable to be alone, clinging to the presence of others to silence the anxieties she refuses to face. But when she wakes up on the floor of a shopping mall, covered in blood and with only fragmented memories of how she got there, she is forced to confront the truth she has long avoided. Meanwhile, her sister Diana struggles to balance the pressures of motherhood and work, drowning in guilt and anxiety, while their mother, Carmen, remains trapped in an endless cycle of sacrifice and duty, caring for her daughters and grandchildren.

In the long, restless summer after their final exams, Matthew, Rez and Cocker are done with school - and determined to feel everything at full volume. Drugs, drink, porn, late-night gaming, bravado and boredom blur into a heady mix of nihilism and misplaced grandeur. What begins as celebration slides steadily towards something darker. Set in post-boom Dublin, Here Are the Young Men is a blistering portrait of masculinity untethered - a generation raised online, overstimulated and spiritually adrift.

Bernd Späth, Autor von Trümmerkind, Seitenstechen und vielen weiteren großen Romanen, hat ein scharfes Auge für die Seltsamkeiten seiner Mitmenschen und weiß sie wunderbar zu erzählen. Aufgrund seiner 25-jährigen Erfahrung als Leadership Coach durchschaut er sie auch psychoanalytisch. Und so gibt er spannende Beschreibungen der Hintergründe, die aus dem Lachen auch noch einen Erkenntnisgewinn machen.

A wedding no one will forget: When Hetty arrives in France with her boyfriend Davey MacGregor and his twin sisters, she knows she doesn't quite belong. The MacGregors are wealthy, polished and politically connected. She's a self-confessed thriller addict from a council estate - and painfully aware of the difference. Davey's cousin Isabelle is about to marry Jean-Jacques Moreau, a rising French right-wing politician, in a lavish ceremony at the family château.

In this twisty psychological thriller, a young woman still haunted by her brother’s murder is forced to question everything she thought she knew when the killer’s brother claims the wrong man went to prison. Jessica will never forgive herself. Five years ago, her brother and best friend were...

Welcome back! We saved you a spot in line! At the heart of Zoe’s Expedition Park stands a decaying monument to stolen fire: the Prometheus statue: rusted, massive, and still burning. When a new threat begins to spread through the park, an ancient thing with deep hunger, the fragile balance between its residents unravels. As grief, guilt, and rage ignite, an uneasy alliance of ghosts, machines, and wanderers must confront what wanders their park and within themselves.

A new nursing job in a wealthy mansion. A patient who never speaks . . . until he tells her a secret that changes everything. When Eden Wells takes a nursing job at Covington Manor, settled deep in the woods, she expects silence, routine, and distance from her painful past. For the past five...

"The Light Between The Shadows" is ultimately a novel about hope—not the cheap, easy hope of happy endings, but the hard-won, daily-renewed hope of choosing to keep living when everything in you wants to give up. It's about finding light not by denying the shadows but by learning to carry both. Jim's journey from suicidal isolation to purposeful Guardian is neither simple nor complete. By the novel's end, he's still struggling, still uncertain, still carrying wounds that may never fully heal. But he's also connected, purposeful, and alive.

Brought to you by Penguin. This summer, meet Regina Gottlieb as she becomes entangled with a magnetic professor – and his volatile wife… In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her controversial professor Nicholas Brodeur...

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Booker Prize - the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the...

Crimen y castigo: Crimen y castigo es una novela que cuenta la historia de un joven exestudiante de Derecho de la universidad de San Petersburgo (Rusia), quien se ve obligado a abandonar sus estudios por falta de dinero. Viviendo en la pobreza, decide comprobar si, según su propia teoría, es un hombre extraordinario o no. Para ello, asesina a una anciana usurera llamada Aliovna. Sin embargo, Rodión empieza a sufrir delirios y conflictos morales. El protagonista confiesa su crimen y es condenado a Siberia.

The Last Contact thrusts a tight-knit military crew into the heart of the unforgiving desert after a deadly attack leaves them stranded. With limited resources and no way out, their only hope for survival lies in their ability to stick together. As they face brutal conditions, every moment is a test of endurance, both physical and mental. But survival is just the beginning. In a game of control, fear, and pain, loyalty is pushed to its breaking point, and each member must confront their darkest fears.

Do you remember the last time you truly felt peace? Have you ever thought about what it might cost? Jacob has spent years pretending to be whole. A wife. A daughter. A life that looks normal from the outside. But there’s a memory—fractured, buried, dangerous—that won’t stay quiet. When Beth appears, everything begins to shift. She’s calm. Curious. Disarming in the way only one other woman ever was. And that woman is dead.

Vier Morde, vier meisterhaft inszenierte Tatorte – Berlin wird von einer rätselhaften Mordserie erschüttert. Kommissariatsleiter Christian Hartwich setzt alles auf eine Karte und holt einen mysteriösen Berater ins Team, ohne zu ahnen, wie tief dieser in das Netz aus Lügen und Geheimnissen verstrickt ist. Während Hauptkommissarin Stefanie Piehler dem undurchsichtigen Berater misstraut, wagt Professor Hornoff den riskanten Schritt in die Abgründe der Täterpsyche – und erkennt: Wer den Mörder stoppen will, muss das Kind in ihm retten.

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

Enter a world equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades in this first, award winning erotic thriller from A.R. Torre! My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules. 1. Don't leave the apartment. 2. Never let anyone in. 3. Don't kill anyone. I've obeyed these rules for three years. But rules were made...

Diana ist zurück aus Paris. Statt aufregender erotischer Begegnungen in der Stadt der Liebe sitzt sie zusammen mit Ehemann Oliver in der Paartherapie. Beide sind fest entschlossen, den Funken zwischen sich wieder zu entfachen, und bereit, dafür allen Anweisungen ihrer Therapeutin zu folgen. Doch dann sagt diese ausgerechnet: »Absolut kein Sex«. Diana und Oliver sind gezwungen, sich auf die altmodische Art zu verabreden: Dinner-Dates, gemeinsame Konzertbesuche und zunehmend sehnsüchtige Gute-Nacht-Küsse. Denn zu ihrer großen Überraschung scheint der Rat ihrer Therapeutin zu funktionieren.

Cuando los sueños comienzan a sentirse más reales que la vigilia… es hora de cruzar el umbral.Kamyl Kaplan nunca imaginó que una simple piedra negra pudiera cambiar el rumbo de su vida. Lo que comienza como una visita a la casa de su tía en la selva venezolana pronto se transforma en una travesía hacia lo desconocido, donde los límites entre los sueños y la realidad empiezan a desdibujarse. A medida que sus sentidos se afinan y su mundo interior se expande, Kamyl descubre que sus emociones no son solo reacciones… sino puertas.

In the vast African savanna, Erasmus Joseph Lion is the king of predators—feared, powerful, and bound by the ancient law of survival: kill or be killed. But beneath his strength lies a restless soul questioning the endless cycle of violence. In a radical act of courage, Erasmus makes an impossible vow: he will never kill again. Joined by his loyal mate, Mary Sue, he leaves behind the only life he has ever known and begins a dangerous journey across the plains and jungles of Africa in search of peace and deeper understanding.

The light that touches your face right now left the sun eight minutes ago. You have never seen the present sun. No one has. Every act of writing shares this property. The moment a word is set down, it begins traveling away from the person who wrote it. A sentence written at noon arrives at six carrying a meaning the writer did not pack. The gap between sending and receiving is where meaning is made, lost, and transformed.