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The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he’s Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he’s Snoopz, a hard-living member of London’s gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same time as treacherous, endangering friends and the looming threat of prison, he is forced to come to terms with who he really is.

I knew he had the power to make me feel, but he also had the power to break me. To pull my heart outside of my chest and stomp on it. I knew falling for a man like Capone came with more than I was ready for. He wasn't feared for no reason. Timmy never meant Jaiden any good, and I knew it from the first time I met him. I've never wanted someone dead as much as I wanted him dead. Timmy needed to go, and I didn't care how he went as long as he wasn't breathing. Capone put it on his life that he would always protect me and mine.

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.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that...

Il rione Sanità, dove è nato il principe della risata Totò, è uno dei più affascinanti e misteriosi di Napoli. Qui vive, con la sua famiglia allargata, Tonino Esposito, orfano di un boss della camorra. Tonino riceve dal clan un sussidio mensile e potrebbe vivere di rendita. Invece si intestardisce a voler imitare le gesta paterne, senza riuscirvi. Perché è goffo, sfigato, arruffone, incapace di difendersi: un antieroe tragicomico e decadente, che tra incubi e visioni, ingenuità e imbranataggini, ne combina di tutti i colori. Uno spaccato divertente e allo stesso tempo crudele.

Maître Pierre-François Chaumont, ein brillanter Pariser Anwalt, ist leidenschaftlicher Kunstsammler und lässt sich keine Auktion entgehen. Von einem alten Ölgemälde kann er eines Tages den Blick nicht mehr abwenden: Der dargestellte Mann mit gepuderter Perücke ähnelt ihm wie sein Spiegelbild! Das Porträt soll seine Sammlung krönen und er ersteigert es, aber schon bald wandelt sich das Glücksgefühl in Paranoia, denn Pierre-François fürchtet, verrückt geworden zu sein: Niemand seiner Familie oder Freunde sieht die frappierende Ähnlichkeit.

Trent'anni, analista programmatore in una società di servizi informatici, il protagonista di questo romanzo conduce un'esistenza indifferente. Il lavoro, i viaggi d'affari, le prigioni dell'amore e del sesso, l'assenza di qualsiasi sentimento che non sia di insofferenza verso se stesso, lo scivolare lento e inesorabile in uno stato di insensibilità dal quale sembra non esserci via d'uscita. In una lingua affilata e gelida, che più volte costeggia i territori di tragedie innominabili, Michel Houellebecq compone un romanzo epocale, una educazione alla non-vita, alla noia, all'indifferenza.

Siamo a Tel Aviv, in una palazzina borghese di tre piani. Tutto è tranquillo all'apparenza ma dietro le pareti le cose cambiano. In ognuno dei tre piani prende vita la storia di una famiglia che scivola attraverso le scale del condominio e passa da un appartamento all'altro. Tre storie che incarnano le tre istanze freudiane di Es, Io e Super Io, e ci raccontano personaggi intensi e indimenticabili che non si lasciano abbattere dalle proprie fragilità ma, anche quando sembra impossibile, si rialzano e ci sorprendono.

Rudy Sharpe is the irrepressible owner of a tiny, ramshackle record store, stacked from floor to ceiling with piles of vinyl. It’s a place with real soul, where the slogan is ‘If we don't have it – them don't mek it’. Helping out behind the counter is Tasha, Handsworth’s only Black goth girl, while Rudy’s best friend Clifton regularly drops in to talk music, women and rum.

Esteban Faraday lives a quiet life in a suburb of London. One day, he receives a certified letter announcing a mysterious inheritance in Buenos Aires. In this totally unexpected trip he will meet Zoé, an attractive tango dancer. He will be in some adventures that he may not get out of alive, and he will discover a secret about himself that will change his life forever.

En el verano de 1978, cuando España no ha salido aún del franquismo y no termina de entrar en la democracia y las fronteras sociales y morales parecen más porosas que nunca, un adolescente llamado Ignacio Cañas conoce por casualidad al Zarco y a Tere, dos delincuentes de su edad, y ese encuentro cambiará para siempre su vida.

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey...

Brought to you by Penguin. Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to Be Somebody Else is an uncoming of age in New York City Spring 2015, New York. On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York, eight years of making this stick. And yet it is...

Ein Ort, an dem man seine Ruhe möchte, eine stürmische Begegnung und zwei Herzen, die beide ein klein wenig heilen... Josef zieht sich regelmäßig in den Wald zurück. Hier gibt es nur Ruhe, keine säumigen Rechnungen, keine nervigen Kunden. Dieser Ort ist besonders. Nur hier gelingt es ihm, sich aufs Wesentliche zu besinnen und die nötigen Seelestreichel-Momente zu finden, die er so dringend braucht. Während er sein nächstes Zeichenmotiv begutachtet, stolpert er im wahrsten Sinne über die trauernde Lotta. Sie ist so ganz anders als die Frauen, die er kennt.

Leipzig, nach dem Zeitenwechsel des Jahres 1989. Eine junge Frau in einer Altbauwohnung, mit Blick auf den größten Kopfbahnhof Europas. In einer hochsommerlichen Nacht beginnt sie, die Tapeten vergangener Generationen von den Wänden zu reißen; das robuste Sofa wird wie ein großes Tier zur Strecke gebracht. Alles soll anders werden. Auf und davon fliegt sie, gen Westen, in die geöffnete Welt. Amerika von Minneapolis bis San Francisco im Überflug, der fast schon endet in einem Secondhandladen voller alter Kleider der kurzen amerikanischen Geschichte.

When seemingly fragile Miss Ivy Cavendale takes the headmistress position in an orphanage, it is her chance to stay anonymous in society. But not all is what it seems with Miss Ivy. When an intruder breaks in one night, she’s quick to draw her weapon, and while fear—her constant companion—has mysteriously disappeared, one thing is very clear: she and her charges are the next target of The Devil’s Sons.

Tessa is close to giving up on her authoritative parents and their demands, on her studies, and on everything in her life, including Dylan. She can run away and leave it all behind or stay to fight against her controlling family and win back Dylan. She has a feeling he needs her, so how can she leave when he's the only man who’s ever made her feel alive?

Brought to you by Penguin. Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie. Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their own hopes and fears. Over the years, they have gone their separate ways. Rob is a history teacher, with a...

‘Brilliantly-written characters, original and engaging. It’s so good!’ BA Paris JOANNE HAYNES HAS A SECRET. THAT IS NOT HER REAL NAME. And there’s more. Her flat isn’t hers. Her cats aren't hers. Even her hair isn’t really hers. Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be...