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Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low?

I'm obsessed with true crime. All the podcasts, the documentaries... I can't get enough. And now there's a murderer on the loose where I live. What a rush! Of course, some people might wonder if it's me. Am I an innocent soul with an unhealthy fascination, or a deadly psychopath? It's the killer question. After all, I would love to know how to get away with murder…

""Creep is everything I want from a novel—it’s obsessive, it’s rapturous, it spirals into the most masochistic corners of the mind. A perfectly twisted debut.""—Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain ""A chilling book by an exciting new voice.""—Vogue (UK) From a blistering new voice in...

"[Narrators Rita] Amparita and [Stephanie] Németh-Parker excel in providing distinct voices for the many female characters. Listeners will find themselves entranced by their performances. " — AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun...

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . . Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he is observed, tested and 'interfered with' (physically) by a team of scientific experts led by Dr Barbara Nullman, determined to probe and 'nullify' his escaping imagination . . .

Es läuft nicht gerade gut für den titelgebenden Künstler. Der Einzige, der ihm Aufmerksamkeit schenkt, ist sein Drogendealer. Bis er durch einen glücklichen Zufall ein Arbeitsstipendium an einem neurologischen Institut erhält, das alles verändert und ihm neuen Schwung verleiht. Die rettende Idee: eine von Neurowissenschaften inspirierte Ausstellung! Doch in dem verheißungsvollen Institut geht es abgedrehter zu als erwartet.

Eine Revue für mehrere Witwen, kongenial interpretiert von Katharina, Anna und Nellie Thalbach. Jenseits aller Schicksale, die hinter dem Begriff "Witwe" lauern, von der Witwe Bolte bis zur Lustigen Witwe: Um die Witwe ranken sich zahlreiche Sprichwörter, Dramen und Geschichten, deren Szenen zwischen Komik und Tragik oszillieren. Fitzgerald Kusz hat sich um die Befindlichkeit von Witwen seine heiteren, ironischen und traurigen Gedanken gemacht und sie zu Witwendramen zusammengefügt.

This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the...

A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." —Emily Temple, Literary Hub Remy and Alicia, a...

In this follow-up to Austenland, Charlotte Kinder is eager to escape the numbness she feels after her divorce. Deciding to get away, she visits the Regency-themed Pembrook Park resort in England, where talented actors set the perfect scene. But with everyone playing a role, it’s hard to distinguish reality from fantasy. So when Charlotte’s heart stirs, she wonders if she’s simply caught up in the experience - or if her ability to feel is finally returning.

Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five-year-old Katie. Nina's almost an adult, after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina's drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can't help piece together Saturday night.

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s...

It's a Midsommar night's Scream in this blood-soaked thriller set at a remote healing retreat from horror author Brian McAuley. Hannah has been running from her demons ever since she emerged from a harrowing wilderness trip without her fiancé. No one knows exactly what happened the day Ben died...

The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin...

When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she’s built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and starts driving west. She hasn’t made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States.

Mit einem knapp einhundert Jahre alten Mann geht eine wundersame Wandlung vor, als er von einer Bombe hört, die im Lago Maggiore gefunden wurde. Er muss an seine Zeit als junger Mann bei den Kommunisten denken. Bei der Bombe handelt es sich zweifellos um jene in einer Torte versteckte, mit der er in den 20er Jahren Europas Außenminister bei ihrem Treffen in Locarno in die Luft sprengen wollte ... Diese und andere Erzählungen liest der bekannte Kabarettist und Autor Franz Hohler selbst.

A man goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelganger's life in this darkly comedic psychological suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Upgrade. The basis for the upcoming A24 film Famous, starring Zac Efron. “My name is Lancelot Blue...

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered. . . in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death? The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen - top salesperson and the victim's potential successor at Steam Devil. And as if hitting middle age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren't enough, Anni realises that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all - before it's too late. .

HVAD ER MIT NAVN? JEG HAR IKKE ET NAVN, JEG ER BARE ET TAL. Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i den østgrønlandske by Tasiilaq, hvor de navnløse grave på kirkegården i Blomsterdalen er dækket med blå, røde og pink plastikblomster, der skriger i den rene sne. Hun har en kæreste, hun elsker, en omsorgsfuld familie, og hun er lige kommet ind på universitetet i Aarhus. Verden står åben, men intet føles rigtigt, og gradvist begynder verden at snævre sig ind omkring hende, og en nedtælling begynder.