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Brew the beer and light the Hearth. No ifs, plenty of butts. I’d been looking for a way to leave my old life behind, so inheriting a battered old pub in the middle of nowhere was the perfect excuse. Flying in from America, I was keen for a chance to get my head down, lick my wounds and figure out my next steps. It turned out, though, there’s all sorts of unusual expectations of the landlord in the village of Pant-y-Giggles. From renovating the building, to learning how to brew, to embracing the Way of the Hollows, I very quickly had my hands full.

“2048 – Le ceneri dell’Europa” è un romanzo visionario e politico che racconta il crepuscolo di un continente che ha smarrito la propria anima.

‘Savas writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence...’ New York Times ‘I fell in love with this book.’ Katie Kitamura, author of Audition and A Separation The mesmerizing debut novel by the author of The...

It's the late 1980s and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets millionaire drug dealer Quadir and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies. Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, her house, her car, and the cash. Both of them find...

Es 2008, y un colapso inesperado sacude las calles de Harlem: un edificio de cinco plantas se derrumba, dejando una nube blanca de escombros que lo cubre todo. Mientras los servicios de emergencia y los periodistas irrumpen en escena, el vecindario se sumerge en el caos. Aparecen seis cuerpos sin vida, y hay desaparecidos. Mary Roe, veterana agente del cuerpo de policía desgastada por su trabajo, se obsesiona por hallar a uno de ellos. Felix Pearl, joven fotógrafo recién llegado a la ciudad, capta el horror del derrumbe y la vida del barrio.

Nothing’s more exclusive than Noire Underground. Serving the wicked and reaping rewards. Secrets. Lies. Soot and cinders. Rhythm. Blades. Games and gore. A knife like a claw and the strike of a needle. This hidden haven is a throne of chains.

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the talented but obscure author Benjamin Rosenblatt.

The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep . . . She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as...

Brought to you by Penguin. Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox, ready by Lewys Taylor. ‘I usually experienced the presence of a dead body as an absence, but in this case, it felt like a black hole opening up in front of me’ Disconnected from his history and careless of his...

**** As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime **** Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up...

A wonderfully warm and charming London saga, set in the Soho of the 1950s. If you like Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, you'll love this! "She brings the East End to life..." - Barbara Windsor "A poignant story with a strong authentic backdrop..."-Woman & Home "I enjoyed this book so much and...

Joost (29) is bandagist. Hij ontfermt zich over de zieke benen van ouderen in Amsterdam, de stad die hem en zijn vrienden geen woning kan bieden. Het contrast tussen zijn zwervende bestaan en dat van zijn patiënten, die zijn gebonden aan hun grote en volgestouwde huizen, wordt steeds groter. De bandagist is een roman over eenzaamheid en geborgenheid, over herinneren en vergeten.

1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can’t help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost—girls she fears yet cannot resist—leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey—whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread—decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building.

The hip-hop culture on the south side of Chicago links these short stories that are otherwise very different from each other in subject and approach. Stark scenes of gang violence, drug use, and prison life are contrasted with light and humorous stories, and the grittiness of urban life is softened by the preoccupations of adolescence, the chance for romance, or the ordinary moments of family life.

Leaving behind a nightmarish college experience, Nicole and her friend, Eric, escape their home of Bangor, Maine to start a new life in Boston. Fragile and scared, Nicole desperately seeks a new beginning to help erase her past. But there is something besides freedom waiting for her in the shadows—a drug that will make every day a nightmare. Heroin. With one taste, the love that once flowed through Nicole's veins turns into cravings. Tracks mark the passing of time, and heroin's grip gets tighter. It holds her hand through deaths and prostitution, but her addiction keeps her in the darkness.

Jason "Philly Cheese" Ruiz had it all: the talent of a five-star recruit, the arrogance of a champion running back, and a life of wealth shielded from the world. Born into a tangled legacy of college football phenomenon and Hollywood glamour, Jason's future was supposed to be bright. But beneath the surface of the Ruiz family home, a cycle of addiction and abuse—passed down from a WWII veteran grandfather to a bitter, injured father—threatened to devour him. When tragedy strikes his best friend and forces a move to the grimy streets of Philadelphia, Jason’s perfect world shatters.

Koya and Deuce's journey can either be the most beautiful love story one could imagine, or it could be a disaster that blows up not only their personal lives, but also their professional ones. They'll have to decide what's most important to them along the way and hope they can come out on the other end whole.

Dao and Sunny both grow up in Bangkok, but that's where the similarities between the two end. Dao's family are well-off and worldly, full of ambition for their daughter. Sunny's father, meanwhile, wants only for his son to take over the small grocery shop he runs and stop causing trouble. When both are offered the opportunity to come to Edinburgh, Dao to study photography, Sunny to work for his aunt, they jump at the chance. But Dao has a secret. Whatever she dreams turns into reality around her. Gift, power or curse: she doesn't know.

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.