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Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu.

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Un homme d'affaires en voyage s'installe dans une autre chambre de motel. Celle-ci est exactement comme toutes les autres. Les mêmes rideaux fades. Le même papier peint décoloré. La même odeur de renfermé. Alors que le monde poursuit sa course à l'extérieur de la porte du motel, il évalue sa carrière et sa vie, se demandant: "Où suis-je ?"

Als bei der Zwangsräumung der Wohnung seiner Mutter durch eine Verwechslung alles von Wert in die Müllverbrennungsanlage wandert, bleibt dem Erzähler wortwörtlich nur der Abfall der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Wie hat es so weit kommen können? Der Erzähler blickt auf die Biografie seiner Familie: ein Stammbaum des Wahnsinns. Die Großmutter bipolar, zwölf Suizidversuche, der Großvater Stammkunde in Steinhof, die Mutter Alkoholikerin, der Vater depressiv.

""Mess is a wonderfully artful book: a funny, sharp-eyed, finely observed, and precise satire of Hollywood and all the things we collect and covet. It is also a generous and tender examination of how we make meaning out of our material—our everyday—lives, our mess. The connection between who...

The cold case of a young Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on an epic and comic quest to uncover the truth, and its connection to his own family—a new novel by “a major talent” (New York Times) and “one of the most distinctive voices of his generation” (Granta)...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FARRELL AND TILDA SWINTON FROM ACADEMY AWARD WINNER EDWARD BERGER, DIRECTOR OF CONCLAVE AND ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT A “thrilling and terrifying” (NPR) tale of risk and obsession set in the mysterious world of Macau’s casinos, by the author of the...

'Oh, by the way, Gabe. I know what happened with Seamus! Everybody at Kiss does.' How did Mitchell know any details about my breakup? I felt my jaw tense. Why did everybody at the third most popular bar in The Village also know? Did Seamus tell them? My heart rate switched from a pulse to a...

Берта Ульрих — когда-то прима драматического театра. Она своенравна, эксцентрична и необычайно талантлива. Поддавшись минутной эмоции, Берта отказывается от роли, предложенной ей молодым режиссером, уходит из театра и, кажется, теряет всё и навсегда… Спустя годы судьба сводит ее с молодой влюбленной парой — Кириллом и Катей. Вот тогда она наперекор всё той же судьбе вытягивает свой счастливый лотерейный билет.

Odin Lykaios. CEO. Seeking revenge. In love with the enemy's daughter. He saved me. He took me away from my world. And now, I can’t leave him, even though I know he wants to destroy my father. She is the enemy's daughter. He is a tech CEO, seeking revenge. She will need to be protected from her own family. He will fall in love with the heiress of the man he is determined to destroy.

Agent Richard Chance is on a relentless mission to avenge his partner's murder by bringing down master counterfeiter Eric Masters. As Chance delves into the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles, he faces a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.

As Babbitt grapples with the suffocating monotony of suburban life, societal expectations, and his own unfulfilled desires, Lewis paints a timeless portrait of conformity, materialism, and self-deception. A biting critique of the American Dream, Babbitt explores the search for meaning in a world that seems more obsessed with status than substance.

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

He sits on a park bench talking to trees, listening carefully for their replies. He digs deeper inside himself, knowing that peace lies beyond the depths. Meanwhile, a woman watches him from afar, enjoying his every step towards realization.

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

Sandy Eden, a Vietnam survivor turned charismatic barrister, has a taste for bourbon, blues, and the relentless pursuit of justice. Yet he often wonders—for what? The answer is his elixir: live music in Austin, where he and his love, Bev, follow the soulful bass lines of his longtime friend Dude from one club to another. But whiskey and blues can’t satisfy his deeper urge to give bullies their due—an itch born in the chaos of war and sharpened by his legal battles.

Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century—framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian. It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of...

Electrifying, sharp, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's first novel, Bonding, is a story of sex, tech, and pharmaceuticals in the tangle of our digital age. This program is read by Ellie Kendrick, best known for roles in the BBC's The Diary of Anne Frank, the 2010's Upstairs Downstairs, and the...

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn’t add up.

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."