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Der Sunday-Times-Bestseller "Good Material" jetzt auf Deutsch! Irgendwie hatte Andy sich das alles anders vorgestellt. Er lebt aus einem Koffer im Gästezimmer seines besten Freundes und wartet darauf, dass seine Karriere als Stand-up-Comedian endlich losgeht. Doch der Erfolg bleibt aus, seine Social-Media-Paranoia ist wenig hilfreich, sein Freundeskreis schwindet rapide und ihn beschleicht der Verdacht, dass er mit 35 Jahren längst viel weiter sein müsste. Vor allem aber ringt er darum, das dramatische Ende seiner Beziehung zu der einzigen Frau zu verarbeiten, die er je wirklich geliebt hat.

The Time Traveller's Wife meets David Mitchell meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Kate & Leopold in this debut novel from an award-winning writer. There are several ways to tell a story. A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets...

Pre-order QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT, the brand new book from Candice Carty-Williams, now NOW WITH EXCLUSIVE QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT EXTRACT! THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...

A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, the first book of the masterful Cairo Trilogy introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city’s rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day’s end, six bodies are recovered, but many of the other tenants are missing. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, one of the greatest chroniclers of life in urban America, creates intertwining portraits of a group of compelling and singular characters whose lives are permanently impacted by the disaster.

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.

From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious...

"Locker-leicht und mit viel Charme!" Emmas Liebeschaos war perfekt: Sie hatte sich in ihre beiden Chefs verliebt - die Brüder Sean und Liam - und sich schließlich für Sean entschieden. Eigentlich ist sie mit ihrer Wahl auch glücklich, bis Liam ihr Gefühlsleben mit seinem Liebesgeständnis wieder völlig auf den Kopf stellt. Hat sie vielleicht doch den falschen Bruder gewählt? Mit Hilfe ihres besten Freundes erkennt Emma endlich, was sie wirklich will. Doch sie wäre nicht sie selbst, wenn sie auf diesem Weg nicht noch in einige Fettnäpfchen treten würde.

In therapy, they tell you to use your senses. List the things you know: Sermons recited with malice. A blood-soaked ritual. The sting of tears and gasping sobs of the dying. Rotting flesh. I grew up in a cage, tortured by the Lord Almighty's most twisted servant. Death and despair became my close companions as I watched years of slaughter at Pastor Michaels’ hand. Eighteen girls. Dead. Eighteen lives. Ended. Eighteen futures. Stolen.

Es sind die heißesten Tage im Jahr, Hundstage, die, so glauben manche, schweres Unheil bringen. Kemal Arslan läuft durch Heilbronn, ein Fußballstar, der nach einem Unfall seine Karriere beenden und von vorn anfangen muss. Unbeteiligt steht er auf einer türkischen Hochzeit herum, geht in ein Striplokal und ins Wettbüro, gerät mitten hinein in eine Straßenschlacht zwischen Rechten und Migranten, trifft seine Exfreundin Sina und besucht seine Eltern.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, read by Julia Whelan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019 FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she...

Brought to you by Penguin. ------------------- 'A joyous, funny read that leaves you all warm inside' Beth Morrey, author of Saving Missy 'Feel-good...full of hope. A quirky cast of characters you can't help but root for'Woman & Home, Book of the Month Listen to the warm, poignant and uplifting...

Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood and Kate, her mother, gone. There may not be a body, but everything else points to murder. Maeve Kerrigan is young, ambitious and determined to prove she's up to her new role as detective sergeant. She suspects Chloe is holding something back, but best friend Bethany Norris won't let Maeve get close. What exactly is Bethany protecting Chloe from? As the team dig deeper into the residents of Valerian Road, no one is above suspicion.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BROUGHT TO LIFE BY NARRATOR DIANE GUERRERO! “This was a fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read! Elle and Parker have chemistry from the jump, but a combination of forced proximity and her hatred of him is fuel for witty banter, a long, slow burn and plenty of...

When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.

The residents of Garrett Island are part of a visionary experiment. Their cars have been sent to the mainland and for one month, they’ve got self-driving vehicles called Arrivals. With just a voice command, an Arrival will take you where you want to go, and as the cars are all aware of each other, road accidents should be a thing of the past. As the world’s press arrives for a glimpse of this driverless future, islander and single mom Sandra Montrose preps for the huge media event.

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to a nudist picnic in Moray Place in the pursuit of true love.

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He...

Albert hatte kaum das geleerte Schnapsglas auf den Tresen gestellt, als Gernot mit schiefer Brille auf ihn zu stob und rief: "Weiter, weiter! Wir müssen weiter!". Gerade aus der oberbergischen Provinz nach Hamburg gezogen, findet sich Albert Bremer mitten im Irrsinn einer Nacht auf St. Pauli wieder. Er trinkt Großmutters Aprikosengeist und Unmengen von Bier, trifft die tollste Frau und die skurrilsten Typen, die er je gesehen hat. Und im Laufe weniger Stunden findet er Freunde, ein WG-Zimmer und eine Band.