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Le retour de votre auteur new-yorkais préféré. Orloff Trenchant, dit Or, est artiste peintre dans l'East Village. Après une rupture, il se retrouve à dormir dans son van, à vendre des livres dans la rue, et à tenter de finir le tableau qui peut-être, un jour, lui apportera le succès...

Poppi survived the heart attack that should have killed him, but surviving isn't the same as living. Narrowly escaping death didn't make him careful. It caused him to question everything. The routine of daily life. His personal choices. The idea of playing it safe. But his first time gambling led him to an unexpected rhythm along the Las Vegas Strip. Casino to casino. Machine to machine. Dice rattled behind plexiglass. The illusion of control settled in his chest. A ritual that became his treadmill.

A sprawling multi-generational saga based on Maisie Mosco’s bestselling trilogy about Jewish refugees in northern England 1905. Fleeing the Russian pogroms, the Sandberg clan arrive in the Jewish ghetto of Strangeways, Manchester. Destitute but resilient, they set out to forge a new life in...

Calvin M. Bennett came to New Orleans to disappear. Now the city knows his name—and Jazz Fest is about to make it impossible to hide. Nine days before the festival, Cal is dividing his time between Miss Jo’s kitchen and a street band that formed without anyone admitting it. Then someone from his former firm arrives with an offer: return with real authority, fewer clients, and the kind of money that can buy a quiet life. New Orleans has other plans.

Seven radio dramas from one of the defining playwrights of his generation, starring Martin Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Robert Glenister, Frances Barber and David Schofield Acclaimed by The Observer as ‘a poet of the east end overspill’, David Eldridge ranks among Britain’s most exciting...

When friends and could-have-been-a-couple Rishi and Diya follow their charismatic friend Darpan Ray into the glittering, chaotic heart of Bollywood, they expect adventure. What they don't expect is Vishal Alwar - a visionary director haunted by catastrophic failure, convinced that Darpan is his...

From the author of My Phantoms and First Love, a droll and quietly evocative novel about work, friendship, family, and the path—so often muddled—toward finding one’s place in life. In The Palm House, Laura’s long friendship with Edmund Putnam is tested when he resigns from Sequence...

Thee Champagne Hurricane is the second novella in Master of Wine Erin Jolley’s Champagne Trilogy. While her first novella, Thee Champagne Earthquake, explores whether humanity can achieve unity if each person undergoes an internal implosion to discover their true self, Thee Champagne Hurricane takes the listener to the next level in examining how individual gifts can light up the collective consciousness.

From Manhattan's glowing skyline to Brooklyn's brownstone streets, from the Bronx's relentless pulse to Queens' layered mosaic, and Staten Island's quiet edges-the city moves like a living force, unapologetic and alive. It meets Kathy and pulls her into its rhythm without permission.

Out of the blue, vain and naive former drama teacher, Tristram Randolph, is offered the job of headmaster at a new school in Diskebapisbad, dysfunctional capital of a despotic post-Soviet state. Little does he know--although the signs are obvious to all but him--that the school is the pet project of the ruthless president's spoilt daughter. Randolph hires a motley crew of teachers, each of whom embodies one of the seven deadly sins.

A BRAND NEW, captivating WW2 timeslip novel of hidden family secrets, love and resilience. Perfect for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Fiona Valpy. A forgotten puppet. A long-buried secret. A story waiting to be told. London, 2016. When Christa discovers an exquisitely carved puppet hidden in...

BRAND NEW from the bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Dachau comes a powerful novel about love, heartbreak, and the stories we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Fiona Valpy and All the Light We Cannot See. It takes courage to tell your story… Kraków, 1994. When an...

Don’t miss the next book in MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke’s Dressmakers' Alley series Times are changing. Is there a glimmer of hope on the horizon for the women of Dressmaker Alley? London’s East End 1927 Yvonne White is content as head seamstress at Miss Susie, raising her beloved...

The brand new, utterly gripping gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson. You’ll never forget The Bloody MacGregors. The Bloody MacGregors are caught in the crossfire and the streets of Glasgow are about to burn. Virgil MacGregor and his fiercely loyal brothers thought working as...

The BRAND-NEW penultimate instalment in Stephanie Harte's gripping, gritty gangland series, perfect for fans of Mobland, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders, from the bestselling author of Double Trouble. The O'Connors and the Kelly’s have an old score to settle London, 1985 Orla O’Connor...

A raw, honest and distinctive novel that dissects the heartbreak, passion, insecurity, obsession, betrayal and joy of modern relationships. For readers of Sally Rooney, Jacqueline Maley, Diana Reid and anyone who has experienced love or heartache in equal measure. 'Do you think much about love?...

A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public.First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorization―it's a time capsule, a...

In this fresh, propulsive take on fame in the tabloid era of the ‘00s, a former child star struggles to figure out who she is beyond the characters she’s played, on television and in relationships. Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big role — she just doesn’t know...

Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances and future families from a sparkling new voice. 'So romantic, so sexy, so fun. I devoured it.' Toni Jordan Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down...

A deeply moving and often hilarious novel that follows a woman who becomes an internet folk hero in the most unexpected way, catapulting her to fame and influence just as she’s finally beginning to reckon with her complicated past Lola Treasure Gold can’t figure out her life. She’s broke...