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Pay your debts. Protect your family. Never cross a loan shark. This blisteringly original crime thriller and exciting debut smashes Mr Inbetween, Monkey Grip and Animal Kingdom into a gutter opera on the vicious, bent and drug-laden streets of Newcastle - written by the Pushcart nominated writer...

A brilliantly funny, relatable romance set in Ireland from BESTSELLER Clodagh Murphy.☘️💛 Perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Beth O’Leary and Sophie Cousens. Two former almost-somethings. One very messy reunion. Could this finally be their time? As teenagers, Ella and Roly were an...

Sam und Daisy sind seit der Uni beste Freundinnen. Als sie sich kennenlernten, war Daisy noch ein wildes, von Fleetwood Mac besessenes Mädchen, das aus den Yorkshire Moors stammte, während Sam ihre Freizeit mit Shoppingtouren und Ausgehen in Liverpool verbrachte. Als sie sich auf einer Holzbank im Garten ihres Lieblingslokals an Sams Hochzeitstag aneinander lehnen, ahnen sie nicht, dass sich ihre Wege kurz darauf zum ersten Mal trennen werden.

The acclaimed novel of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of 1970 Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him...

Dramatisations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most popular works, plus bonus documentary Often described as ‘the laureate of the Jazz Age’, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the reckless, hedonistic spirit of 1920s America in his classic novels The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is...

This collection of stories explores the hidden, sentient lives of discarded objects in a fictional city. The narrative is set in the “Residual World,” a subterranean reality where waste and debris possess memories, emotions, and a shared history. Through personified characters like Barnaby...

From the author of Glass Bottle Season comes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one man’s desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more “tortured” than “artist.” Sidewalk Dance is an American masterpiece of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. Haunted by his brother’s tragic death in the War in Afghanistan and unable to process this trauma, Fisher shuns his elitist pedigree by abruptly quitting Yale Law School, changing his name to Fish, and moving to New York City. Once there, he sets about reinventing himself as a doomed playwright.

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller with a razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders to generate the photos his magazine’s readership ghoulishly demands. Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly...

泣きたいときもあるけれど、食べて、飲んで、生きていく！ 犬森祥子、バツイチ、アラサー、職業は「見守り屋」。営業時間は夜から朝まで。様々な事情を抱える客からの依頼で人やペットなど、とにかく頼まれたものを寝ずの番で見守る。

Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they. Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand. But after a particularly regrettable one-night stand with her annoying friend James, Daisy starts to look...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...

One reckless hook-up in a broken elevator . . . The big shot billionaire kissed me senseless against the glass doors. There was zero chance of seeing the Armani-clad stranger again. I didn't even catch his name—just that he was the hottest mistake of my life. But the universe? It loves a plot...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...

Jordan is a boy on the streets of an America bifurcated by civil conflict, in a world rocked by another global war. He must initiate the dangerous trek across the war torn demarcation zone to reunite with his brother and his expectant wife: the only family he has left. On his journey he meets Jeremiah. A man possessed of a library of knowledge and skill that belies a terrible secret.

Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, David Nicholls and Nick Hornby, ON WE GO is a funny, moving and powerful story about love, loss and what it truly means to be a family. 'Moving and uplifting' THE SUN 'Told with warmth and charm' WOMAN & HOME 'Has all the feels' HEAT 'Mike is the master of...

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, narrated by Amy Ryan! “Single Girls is an irresistibly fun, sparkling novel that you'll want to binge in one night! John Searles crafts a brilliant portrait of the...

Empires don’t need kings. They need queens. Freshly paroled from Holloway Prison, Pearl Armstrong returns to Soho not for nostalgia — but to reclaim the empire she built with blood, cunning and grit. Her sons, Kristian and Daniel, have turned the Armstrong legacy into a shadow of its former...

'Outstanding' LEE CHILD on A. A. Dhand ‘Dhand is a fearless writer’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Literally could not put this down … Immediately immersed you back into the gritty lives of Idris and co’ Reader review ★★★★★ ‘An explosive and fast-paced thriller … The last page of the book...

Oliver Twist doesn't ask for much—just a little more. When a hungry orphan speaks up, he's hurled from the workhouse into London's maze of alleys, where charm comes cheap and danger wears a friendly grin. Scooped up by a nimble crew of pickpockets and their smooth-talking handler, Oliver must navigate smoky dens, sudden kindnesses, and close calls—keeping hold of a stubborn belief that goodness can still win out.