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THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Read by David Mitchell. A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. Taking us right back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn't exist)...

Kindle-Bestseller! Meine heiße Urlaubsromanze entpuppt sich als größter Fehler meines Lebens. Dieser charismatische Mann, dessen undurchschaubares Lächeln mich so sehr faszinierte, hält mich gegen meinen Willen in Russland fest, weil er der Meinung ist, dass ich ihm gehöre. Er sagt, ich hätte mich ihm versprochen, und dass er kein anderes Kätzchen will. Selbst dann nicht, als ich mich vom unschuldigen Kätzchen in eine wilde Raubkatze verwandle. Ich ignoriere ihn, widersetze mich ihm, bedrohe ihn und versuche mehrmals zu fliehen.

After forty years in the spotlight as comedian, author, director, and professional neurotic, Woody Allen is a living legend. To fans, his films have always represented a sort of ongoing autobiography. This is the first uncensored biography to investigate one of our era’s most celebrated...

The summoning of otherworldly heroes is a dangerous gambit for King Edward Ricousian—heroes show up with ridiculous cheat powers and wild ideas about "human rights" and "justice for commoners." But with demons on the verge of overrunning his starving kingdom, he chooses to roll the dice, and...

INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A rollicking history of England’s kings and queens from Arthur to Elizabeth I, a tale of power, glory, and excessive beheadings by award-winning British actor and comedian David Mitchell “Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell...

Mr. Darcy got his happily ever after in Pride and Prejudice, and now it’s his sister’s turn in this swoony queer romance, perfect for fans of Bridgerton. Georgiana Darcy has only ever kissed one girl before, and the resulting blackmail almost ruined her reputation. Since then, she’s...

I never thought I'd be involved with the Italian Mafia. My association with them has made me a target, so they've appointed one of their most ruthless to be my bodyguard. He pretends to be my boyfriend, but a man as cold-hearted as Lorenzo Moretti is not built for high society and will never receive my father's approval. Worse, he's getting too close to my secrets, my heart, and the seemingly perfect life I've built.

After centuries alone, he enters my life and turns my world upside down. We have a shared mission, and it's our future at stake. My life is predictable, steady, and simple. I spend my time recruiting and training the newly departed to the Soul Chasers Society, the group dedicated to ridding the...

In Unruly: Fighting Back when Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business, cofounder of software company Hence Technologies and former Global Deputy CEO of Eurasia Group, Sean West, delivers a startlingly insightful new take on how politics, technology, and law are converging to upend the rules of business, generating dangerous risks and incredible opportunities.

Punk started much earlier than we think: enter the seductive subculture created by three rebellious boys navigating the sparkling world of the Elizabethan court Three young noblemen – heirs to some of the greatest titles in the land – come of age under the watchful eye of William Cecil, the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this funny, winning, and unexpected adventure from the National Book Award–winning author of the Penderwicks series, a girl finds herself an unlikely hero when she stumbles upon a big secret about little creatures. “A tender story whose tone evokes the warmth...

A mother and her son vanish into the wilderness. Time is running out. When a woman and her neurodiverse teenage son go missing in the rugged parklands outside Honolulu, homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka is called in to lead the search. Every hour matters. The terrain is unforgiving. The trail is unclear. And the longer they’re missing, the slimmer the chances of finding them alive. As Kimo and his team push deeper into the mountains, the case grows more complicated. Conflicting accounts, hidden tensions, and unexpected connections suggest this is more than a simple disappearance.

Rules are necessary for a functional society, but many “rules” we follow are simply conventional wisdom, norms, or limited interpretations. We’re expected to play along by conforming, following the crowd, and steering toward comfortable paths. But viewing rules as a starting point rather than as an endpoint opens worlds of opportunities for your success. Unruly is your manual to identify your best maneuvers in the gray areas that allow you to authentically create and secure your own path to success.

In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts, and misfits into a community of the marginalized, one that held very different values and expectations than the towns and villages from which the young men fled, a community that offered a tentative refuge to men who were sexually attracted to other men. Benemann provides an in-depth examination of nineteenth century LGBTQ culture as it developed at sea and in America's port cities.

This is not a simple story. This is not even just one story. There’s a boy, and there’s a girl. But there’s so much more than that. I was going home. Not forever; only long enough to watch my eternally irresponsible father marry a girl who happened to be my childhood enemy. There were no plans to embark on some crazy sex odyssey with a wild 19-year old baseball player. Easton Malone is insufferable, crude, and far too close. The hot, reckless days we shared should never have happened. I would forget him.

The crime boss. The hustling queen. Cross and Catherine Donati have been married five years, but the life they've chosen still has things to teach them yet. One can never become too comfortable in their business. Trouble soon follows. The principe and principessa are all grown up...It's tough being at the top. When all Cross wants is to slow down the world, reality has a way of speeding it back up. Just when Catherine thinks she's learned everything her mother has to teach, more lessons come her way. 

Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies...

If your story isn’t working, flip the script. “Exactly the kind of no-nonsense and loving advice you’d expect from a big sister or longtime friend.” —Franchesca Ramsey, creator and host of MTV Decoded and author of Well, That Escalated Quickly “There is no better time than right now...

"Spore" follows hard-working Rosália, a manicurist who has built herself a solid reputation and is trusted by her wealthy clients; that is, until she unexpectedly discovers her own dark side. Now she will have to go to great lengths to hide her twisted urges.

A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined...