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Isa Epley ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt und weise genug, um zu wissen, dass der Sinn des Lebens im Vergnügen liegt. Tagsüber verkauft sie mit ihrer besten Freundin Gala Klamotten an einem Straßenstand, um ihre Zwischenmiete in Brooklyn zu finanzieren.

Es ist nicht lange her, dass Melissa und Michael, von ihren Freunden liebevoll M & M genannt, das allseits bewunderte Paar waren. Doch jetzt ist ihre Ehe so einsturzgefährdet wie ihr Einfamilienhaus im Süden Londons. Melissa ist gerade Mutter geworden, aber statt Erfüllung empfindet sie Überforderung und sucht Trost bei den nigerianischen Eintöpfen und Zaubern ihrer Mutter. Das macht Michael, der sich ein aufregendes Leben ohne Kinder zurückwünscht, nur noch unzufriedener. Und da gibt es noch ein anderes Paar: Damian und Stephanie - und ihre drei Kinder.

Nel dicembre del 1957 un lungo inverno di cenere e ombra avvolge Barcellona e i suoi vicoli oscuri. La città sta ancora cercando di uscire dalla miseria del dopoguerra, e solo per i bambini, e per coloro che hanno imparato a dimenticare, il Natale conserva intatta la sua atmosfera magica, carica di speranza. Daniel Sempere - il memorabile protagonista di "L'ombra del vento" è ormai un uomo sposato e dirige la libreria di famiglia assieme al padre e al fedele Fermín con cui ha stretto una solida amicizia.

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra.

When the body of a young mother is discovered in an East London park during a blistering summer, D.I. Matthew Denning is thrust into a high-pressure investigation. As another woman dies in similar circumstances, it becomes clear a killer is stalking the city's streets. But when young, ambitious, D.S. Molly Fisher discovers a horrifying link to these deaths and a killing spree in South London a decade ago – by a psychopath dubbed 'The Bermondsey Ripper' – the case is blown wide open.

❤️Don't miss Hannah hilarious new time-loop romcom, THE LONG HAUL, available in May❤️ ‘Brilliantly funny and sweet, so heartwarming and relatable. I couldn’t stop reading it!’ Lucy Vine If you want to know the A-Z of love then it starts with Alice and ends with Zach. Alice is a...

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Instant USA TODAY Bestseller The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man...

'American storytelling at its era-spanning best . . . An immersive, multi-layered portrait of a marriage, Nathan Hill’s follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius' – The Observer An Oprah's Book Club Pick. Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home...

Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in audio. He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards’ and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’...

In naher Zukunft, irgendwo am Mittelmeer. Eine namenlose Agentin ist auf einen mutmaßlichen Staatsfeind angesetzt. Um an wichtige Informationen zu kommen, muss sie gefährlich nah an den brutalen und skrupellosen Mann heran. In staccatohaftem Stil schildert die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Jennifer Egan eine atemberaubende Verfolgungsjagd. Der Agentinnenroman wurde zuerst in Form von Twitter-Meldungen vom US-Magazin "New Yorker" veröffentlicht.

Il corpo del Gladiatore, un piccolo delinquente, viene trovato riverso in una pozza di sangue nell’ascensore di un palazzo in piazza Vittorio, cuore multietnico di Roma. Le indagini si concentrano su Amedeo, esule algerino amico di tutti, ma i suoi condomini coltivano ipotesi diverse.

'I hope the lights are on when we finally have sex so he can see how young I am compared to his wife.' Readers are loving Everyone I Know is Dying: 'An important, electric portrayal of mental health' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Brutally relatable' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of the most powerful books I've ever...

The first thriller in the No.1 bestselling DS Logan McRae series. Nothing keeps a crime hidden like fear… ‘Stuart MacBride’s thrillers just keep getting better’ Express ‘You can’t be an eyewitness if I cut out your eyes…’ Someone’s preying on Aberdeen’s growing Polish...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a...

Il pericolo è come un debito: perseguita finché non viene saldato. Atterrare a Londra per porre fine a una faida internazionale è l'unica possibilità che ha Trevor per uscire dall'intreccio di crimini in cui è finito. Solo così può ottenere ciò che desidera davvero: tornare in Italia da Lea e saperla al sicuro da Viktor e Sebastian. Ma a Londra niente è semplice. Segreti sepolti da anni trasformano ogni affare in un rischio.

Nell'incanto evanescente delle notti pietroburghesi tra maggio e giugno, un giovane vagabondeggia in solitudine...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up...

The classic novelization of one of Broadway’s most enduring and beloved musicals, updated with a beautiful new cover. Maria is young and innocent and has never known love—until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has discovered love for the first time with...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Naomi Alderman's The Lessons reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late. Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any...

Eine grausame Mordserie erschüttert Köln. Scheinbar wahllos entführt ein Unbekannter ältere Menschen, fesselt sie und lässt sie dann unbarmherzig verhungern. Kommissarin Anna Melcher wird auf den Fall angesetzt. Seit ihrer Scheidung leidet die Ermittlerin unter Panikattacken, die sie vor den Kollegen zu verheimlichen versucht. Ein Hinweis führt sie zurück in die achtziger Jahre zu einem grausamen Fall von Kindesmisshandlung.