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Una niña enfervorizada espera a su padre, un mafioso dominicano al que idolatra y que siempre llega sin avisar, como los monstruos en las películas de terror. Papi aparece, desaparece y reaparece, cargado de dólares y un sinfín de coches, novias y regalos. Encarna, como ha señalado el crítico Juan Duchesne Winter, al «neomacho global» y triunfador de los trópicos, que provoca alucinaciones en todos los que lo rodean.

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

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah, in her new novel A Beautiful Evil, introduces the darker side of Winter Santiaga in a mature, masterful, sensual follow-up to Love After Midnight. On the same day that Winter Santiaga wore her wedding dress, her new husband, well-known...

The much anticipated sequel to the million-copy international bestselling debut The Second Chance Convenience Store. Welcome back to the store where everyone has a story. The Second Chance Convenience Store is open again. After captivating millions of readers worldwide, The Second Chance...

Wyatt Barlowe There was power in having alliances. And as the new head of my family, it was my business to make the Barlowe mafia one of the strongest on the east coast. The first step? Arranging a truce with one of our enemies. I hadn't expected Ace to agree without a little convincing, but he...

To save your life, you must kill the one you love! Can you do it? Sarah is madly in love with boyfriend Theo, and can't wait to go on their first weekend away. However, by the end of the first night, Theo is dead and Sarah has killed him. She swears she had no choice. She was forced to kill Theo...

Der ultimative Showdown um die endgültige Besitznahme der Stadt New York hat begonnen. Werden die holländischen Natives komplett vernichtet oder müssen die Briten einsehen, dass sie sich nicht allen Grund und Boden Amerikas einverleiben können? Die Götter müssen eine Entscheidung treffen, die Historiker zücken ihre Federn und der rote Teppich ist für alle beteiligten Protagonisten ausgerollt, um auf der Bühne der Weltgeschichte unsterblich zu werden, allen voran der Stolz holländischer Tapferkeit, Großmut, politischer Raffinesse und Ehre: Peter Stuyvesant.

How do you outrun the family curse? What if you can't? Fresh out of grad school in Michigan, on the brink of despair, directionless, David worries his parents. They don't know what to do for him, they don't know how to heal him. His doctor suggests that he needs to gain some perspective, get to...

A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of ‘The Golden Notebook’. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted...

A surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend their way of life, by the award-winning author of Brown Girls. Fresh off the success of their first novel, a writer – intense...

The acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing. At 27...

Darin spitzt sich die Situation für die holländischen Gründerväter von Neu-Amsterdam immer mehr zu. Britische Truppen fordern Sie zur Kapitulation auf und alle Hoffnungen ruhen jetzt auf Peter Stuyvesant, doch kann der legendäre Staatsmann eine Lösung aus der schier aussichtslosen Lage herbeiführen?

Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some people and bores most. Poetry. And yet to him - and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck - poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.

This rivalry is setting the literary world on fire – but who will survive the flames? When Selina Chan, New York’s fiercest literary critic, slams Parker Navarro’s latest novel, he is pushed to his breaking point. Once was painful enough. But this time, it’s personal. What begins as a...

Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross paths and find that when it comes to what matters most, cultural differences melt away in this insightful, transporting, multi-cultural drama from New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image...

Brought to you by Penguin. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in our collective imagination. Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the downtown music...

Alibi by Teri Woods is a gripping urban thriller that plunges readers into the gritty streets of North Philadelphia in 1986, where loyalty, betrayal, and survival collide. Lance and Jeremy, two desperate men looking for a way out of their struggles, thought they'd found the perfect...