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Get your copy of Sarah Morgan’s new Christmas novel Snowed in for Christmas now! Praise for Sarah Morgan: ‘Christmas isn't Christmas without a Sarah Morgan novel to inhale, and she’s knocked it out of the heart-warming, uplifting park again’ Laura Jane Williams ‘Comfort reading at its...

My dear runaway wife, Blocking me on everything except this email address does not change the fact that you are still my wife. You ran after the wedding, but you’re home now. Our families expect you to behave as a wife should in this elite world. It’s time to act like you promised you would five years ago. Or do you need a reminder? Your impatient husband, Damian. P.S. Don’t think I forgot about how you stole my entire life savings.

Il Biondo e Quello con la cravatta sono killer professionisti, e hanno gli stessi dubbi e le stesse difficoltà di ogni professionista. Questa volta sono alle prese con un contratto inedito che li pone di fronte a una questione morale: accettare l'incarico, molto ben pagato, o cedere ai loro dubbi etici? Proprio per questo, per chiedere consiglio a una collega, coinvolgono la loro «stagista» Francesca Aroldi. Parte quindi una sequenza di contrattempi, infortuni, difficoltà, piani falliti, svolte e testacoda, incidenti di percorso, problemi familiari e pistole da pulire.

Giappone, inizi degli anni '70. In un paese già scosso dagli effetti dei violenti moti studenteschi del '68, Ryū, Lily e il loro gruppo di amici gravitano nei dintorni della base militare americana di Yokota, a poche decine di chilometri da Tokyo, di cui frequentano alcuni dei soldati lì di stanza. Vivono una quotidianità scombinata, fatta di un uso costante e ossessionato di qualsiasi sostanza stupefacente si ritrovino a portata di mano, di sesso estremo, di piccoli furti e di qualunque altro comportamento vada a costituire un'anomalia e una sfida alle regole.

A gorgeously funny STEM rom com from Camilla Isley. Perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood, Lynn Painter and Jo Watson. He's off limits – but you can't fight physics... At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' AND 'DEBUT OF THE YEAR' AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize 'Douglas Stuart has written a first...

Una rivisitazione in chiave moderna di David Copperfield ambientata nella Virginia dei giorni nostri. Demon, figlio di una madre single e adolescente e nato in una roulotte, non possiede altro che un’arguzia feroce e un talento per la sopravvivenza. Tra i pericoli moderni dell’affidamento, il lavoro minorile, l’abbandono scolastico, il successo nello sport, i primi amori, la dipendenza e sconfitte di vario genere, Demon dovrà fare i conti con una società per la quale è invisibile, in cui persino i supereroi hanno abbandonato la provincia a favore delle grandi città.

Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, J. M. Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish Spanish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his “gleaming dentures,” she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world.

Mimi e Kodachi sono due gemelle che vengono cresciute nella cittadina di Fukiage da una coppia di amici dei genitori perché il padre è rimasto ucciso in un incidente stradale e la madre è in coma. Compiuti i diciotto anni decidono di trasferirsi a Tōkyō, dove vivono una vita tranquilla, quando, all’improvviso Kodachi svanisce nel nulla.

A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year “A masterpiece”—LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve (Publishers Weekly)...

'Sexy, funny, romantic and heartfelt - this book has it all - a must read' Sandy Barker She's a self-made fitness sensation. He's a billionaire mogul. They're sworn enemies and rivals... aren't they? Blake Avery knows all about hard work. She’s gone from making videos in her teenage bedroom to...

First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact, a thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald’s own experience as an undergraduate at Princeton and as an aspiring writer. Brilliantly original in its experimental narrative, it comprises a series of contrasting styles and structures.

From award-winning author Walter Mosley comes the third work featuring hardened ex-con turned street philosopher Socrates Fortlow. Organizing other troubled individuals, Socrates starts the Thursday Night Thinkers' Meeting, in which members discuss "the world and what would be the right thing to do."

Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California; a father he loathes in Brooklyn; and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with 20 years ago, and this discovery will send him off course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?

From Rhonda Byrne, creator of the international bestselling movie and book, The Secret, comes Hero, her latest world-changing self-help project and the most important to date in the New Age and spirituality movement. FROM ZERO TO HERO...YOUR SECRET STEP-BY-STEP MAP TO A RICH LIFE. What is your...

'A love letter to Japan and its literature' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 'Ingenious... Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking' Guardian 'An ideal tonic for anyone craving far-flung adventure' Mail on Sunday 'If you're itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell...try this' The Times...

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.​ Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD...

This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong. The Times Top Ten Bestseller A Granta Best of Young British Novelist ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s...

From Michael Crichton Creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, Rising Sun, and Disclosure Writing as John Lange Comes a new Hollywood mystery thriller, originally written in 1973 by Crichton but never before published, that will keep you guessing until the very end. In the glitz and decadence...

When Meer saw me off at the airport, I never expected to come home and become his wife. His daughter becoming mine. Our lives intertwining into one. I didn't think I was worthy of being loved the way this man loved me. Worthy of a man telling me how's he coming behind me and actually standing on...