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The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve “bewitching and revelatory” (The New York Times) and “ridiculously entertaining” (Booklist starred review) stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood...

Sophy Stevens is moving to Australia. Turning thirty has found her unexpectedly out of a job, out of a relationship, and just in need of Something Different - and Australia, where she can finally meet her grandparents and surprise them on their wedding anniversary, looks like the perfect answer...if she can save up the money for the plane ticket. So when her feckless, absent dad Johnno offers her a job at his vintage clothes shop in Primrose Hill, she can't turn it down.

Disgraced in the US, maverick ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the newly opened London offices of Parabola Media. The clash of cultures has hilarious consequences as he tries to cope with promoting a range of peculiar products, challenging clients and not to mention his disgruntled new colleagues. His first assignment is a gourmet cat food for an intensely conservative company but Eliott has his eyes on a bigger prize, American investment in the NHS. After all, "where there's pain, there's gain..."

Back home after abruptly leaving graduate school in London, Erin numbly teeters through the shock of losing her best friend to an accident she doesn’t want to talk about—especially with her mother. But it’s easy to slip into the rhythms of Belfast, the lazy city; she takes an au pair job and bookends her days with early morning runs along the Lagan and hazy afters at a bar her old friend tends. In quick succession, she meets an American man who is looking to get lost, and falls back in with the local boy who both comforts and confounds her.

This audio edition is brilliantly and hilariously read by Sally Phillips, known for her performances in Bridget Jones's Diary and Smack the Pony. More Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up: the laugh-out-loud sequel to the hilarious, WTF AM I DOING NOW?! runaway bestseller! 'The new Bridget...

The Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50's New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos. It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo...

Since she was sixteen, Willa's curious touchstone in life and work has been the 1993 film Much Ado About Nothing. She's always looking for The Feeling, the stirring in her heart - and loins - that she gets when watching the opening scenes. Now she's navigating her mid-thirties, her career as a romance publisher in an unusual family business, and her determination to remain child-free, while quietly holding out for a love as big as Beatrice and Benedick's.

When beautiful and successful Susan Harris jumps from the roof of her apartment building, she sets a tremor through her New York City mothers’ group that forces them all to look at one another with new cynicism: How could this have happened right under their noses? To one of them? Between her death and the harrowing private school admission season on the horizon, these women are forced to explore the hard truths about themselves.

Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything. Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now she’s built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn. But messages are coming in—and Jaq has to make a choice.

This electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge follows the sweeping saga of one prominent French family in postwar Paris, Beirut, and Saigon. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass...

Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual visits from her daughter who is studying in the UK. Her neighbour, Revathi, is a thirty-two-year-old engineer who is frequently reminded by her mother that she has reached her expiry date in the arranged marriage market. Jason, a British chef, has impulsively moved to India to escape his recent heartbreak in London.

Will is sleepwalking through life - he’s working in a dead-end job and volunteers at a crisis line, hiding behind the phone and helping others to avoid sorting out his own life, which is stuck in a rut. Annie thought she had a five-year plan all figured out with her steady job and even steadier boyfriend. But when everything starts falling apart, she reaches out for help and just needs someone to listen. Will enjoys talking to the woman who calls herself Pia, and together they start to encourage each other to do brave things and rebuild their lives.

The debut novel from Irish playwright, actor, and poet, Emmet Kirwan.

Youth by Kevin Curran dives into the lives of four teenagers in Ireland's most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and his YouTube fame can deliver on their promises. Princess is battling to escape her claustrophobic surroundings and go to university. Dean is ready to come out from under his famous father's shadow. Tanya, struggling with the spotlight of internet infamy, is still posting her dream life for all of her faithful followers.

Step into a world where smokestacks meet stories, cogs align with characters, and the past’s machinery intertwines with the narratives of the future. Introducing Factory, an unparalleled anthology of flash fiction that hammers and shapes tales of industrialization into microcosmic masterpieces.

Margo, a single mother, agrees to housesit for her best friend in a not so friendly neighborhood for a bit of extra cash. Everything is fine until she becomes a witness to a horrendous crime, forcing them into a night of violence, endurance, and above all else, redemption.

Eine kuriose Wiener Geschichte die Jung und Alt zum Schmunzeln bringt. Beim Schottentor. Der Fremde trifft zuerst Herrn Weninger, die anderen kommen allmählich hinzu. Fremder: Ich bitten, Sie können mir sagen, wie ich kommen in die Dorotheergasse? Rudolf Stürzer (1865 – 1926) war Schriftsteller, Journalist und Redakteur.

Eine kuriose Wiener Geschichte die Jung und Alt zum Schmunzeln bringt. Weil ich Augengläser trage sagen manche Leute „Doktor“ zu mir. Merkwürdiger Weise schätze sie mich nicht als Mediziner sondern als Juristen, so auch der Monteur... Rudolf Stürzer (1865 – 1926) war Schriftsteller, Journalist und Redakteur.

Heute gehe ich zu Fuß vom Westbahnhof bis zum Hotel Bauer. Meine schwarze Tasche, deren Träger abgerissen sind, halte ich umschlungen. Wie einen Schutzpolster. Stark befahrene Straße, schmaler Gehsteig. Vorbei am Café Novi Beograd, vorbei am Restaurant Donaudelta, vorbei an der Kirche Maria vom Siege. Die Tasche wie ein Baby tragend vermeide ich jeglichen Blickkontakt, schaue zumeist auf den grauen Gehsteig.

Eine kuriose Wiener Geschichte die Jung und Alt zum Schmunzeln bringt. Ein Wiener Nachtstück aus der seligen Backhendlzeit. Personen: Ein Fiaker, ein Herr und ein Hausmeister... Rudolf Stürzer (1865 – 1926) war Schriftsteller, Journalist und Redakteur.