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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...

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.

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.

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.

Nachdem er von einem Göttlichen gezeichnet und entführt wurde, beschließt Andross, dass es Zeit ist, erwachsen zu werden und zu lernen, wie man in diesem neuen Reich, das er sein Zuhause nennt, überlebt. Seine ersten Schritte zur wahren Meisterschaft beginnen an der weltberühmten Koshima-Akademie für Magie.

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.

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.

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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 past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity.” Along the streets of Manhattan, a...

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.

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.

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...

Eine Silvesternacht in Berlin. Jan will sich von der lauten Stadt zurückziehen, Audrey will die Party ihres Lebens machen und Ella kehrt für eine Nacht zurück, um ihre Zukunft zu klären. Drei Schicksale von Menschen, deren Wege sich in einer Nacht kreuzen. Eine berührende Geschichte über Wünsche und Hoffnungen, Abschied und Neubeginn sowie über die besonderen Momente im ganz normalen Leben.

Brought to you by Penguin. When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food...

Leo Stone is a ruthless killer or the victim of a miscarriage of justice. A year ago, he was convicted of the murder of two women and sentenced to life in prison. But now he's free, and according to him, he's innocent. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve finds out, the less convinced she is of his guilt. Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is there a copycat killer, or have they been wrong about Stone from the start?

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...

Designed to match the new look Hercule Poirot series. Read by Hugh Fraser who plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series. Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced...

It's the most anticipated event of the decade – Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own success. The lure of those famous bacon rolls is preventing her from leaving hungry customers without their daily dose of deliciousness – even to go for a long-awaited honeymoon. Will Big Lou find the happiness she so richly deserves? Everyone in Scotland Street hopes so, but, as Burns warned, the best laid plans.