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Jennifer Weiner Book 2, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest danger in love is believing you understand everyone—except yourself? In Emma, Jane Austen creates one of her most brilliant comedies of manners: elegant, ironic, romantic, and quietly ruthless in its understanding of human vanity...

Samantha thrives under pressure. A high-powered London lawyer, all she can concentrate on is taking the next step in her career; eating, sleeping, seeing friends—even taking a breath—will have to wait. But just when she's about to get everything she has ever wanted, Samantha makes a mistake. A fifty-million-pound, career-destroying mistake. Unable to face the consequences, she does the unimaginable and runs away… Catching the first train she can, she finds herself in the countryside, outside a beautiful grand house.

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

Please Remain Seated: This Will Only Take a Moment is a dark satirical novel about what happens after power stops shouting and starts waiting. The world is not ending loudly. It is being corrected quietly.

Table Number 7 is a delightfully witty and satirical romp through the chaotic love life of Shafiqur Rahman Romeo, a man hopelessly entangled in his own romantic farce. Set against the vibrant backdrop of early-2000s Dhaka, this comedy novella blends cultural specificity with universal humour, crafting a story that’s as sharp as it is heartfelt. When one lover turns up before schedule, Romeo’s carefully timed escapades spin out of control, unleashing a chain of comic confrontations that end up in a courtroom circus.

By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. By night, in secret, she writes historical romance novels under the pen name Emma Browning. When her novel wins one of Australia's biggest literary awards, Miles's perfectly ordered life begins to unthread – especially when Lars Kristensen, CEO of the publishing company, insists on meeting the author. Socially anxious Miles and supremely confident Lars have nothing in common.

Ein Tatort wie aus einem Horrorfilm: Der Baum ist schwarz verkohlt, an seinen Stamm gefesselt die Leiche eines Mannes, der offensichtlich zu Tode gesteinigt wurde. Die Identität des Toten können DS Washington Poe und Fall-Analytikerin Tilly Bradshaw schnell klären: Es handelt sich um Cornelius Green, den Führer einer extrem konservativen christlichen Sekte mit zweifelhaftem Ruf. Green soll früher sogenannte »Konversionstherapien« durchgeführt haben, um homosexuelle Teenager zu »heilen«.

You married the man of your dreams-and inherited the kids of your nightmares. Plus their mother. Congratulations. You’re now a Stepmother. Or, as fairy tales would have it, the Villain. I, too, am a stepmother - and have been dealing with the fallout for over a decade. Did I set out to be...

Poppy Leathers has two work lives. The job everyone knows she has: manager to art influencer extraordinaire Jason Tasker. The other job: assistant to Brooklyn's premier artisanal hitman, Atticus Garcia. Two different worlds, all the same crap. Undervalued and constantly taken for granted, Poppy reaches her breaking point when her art boss decides he' s desperate to adopt a baby—by any means necessary—and her hitman boss has fallen into an ennui that has left him ready to retire—a major health hazard for anyone with her institutional knowledge.

Based on a true story, Liz Enko Lacks Vax Facts is a bold, rhyming satire about fear, power, propaganda, and what happens when questioning authority becomes forbidden. In this installment in the Liz Enko series, a peaceful town is swept into a new age of public-health promises when Liz Enko arrives armed with charts, slogans, and the holy language of The Science. Backed by experts and industry, she sells the townspeople on a bright new future of injections, compliance, and trust.

Catfish, a new Fourth Estate book, full description to follow when available...

Share a cup, share a story… The truth is in the tea leaves. If anyone at Teacup Cottage drinks a second cup of tea, they have a secret to share… Readers have fallen in love with Puffin Island: 'The most wholesome, heartwarming, enchanting read … would highly recommend' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

History of a Heartbreaker, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

Berlin, 1961. In a city split by walls, spies, and secrets, Karl Brunner, a meticulous watchmaker whose house straddles the border between the two cities, finds himself reluctantly pulled into the absurdities of espionage. Everyday objects become instruments of intrigue, mundane routines hide coded messages, and every second spent spying for both the East and the West carries life-or-death stakes.

Ein Wochenende auf Sylt, ein charmantes Hotel – und ein Mann, der alles verändert. Als Amy für die Hochzeit ihrer besten Freundin in der Strandperle verantwortlich ist, rechnet sie mit Stress, nicht mit Schmetterlingen im Bauch. Doch dann tritt Oliver in ihr Leben: sensibel, humorvoll, einfach zum Verlieben.

'A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story' Rachel Khong 'Culturally incisive and relentlessly smart' Michelle Zauner 'A magnum opus and a vibe' Bryan Washington Stevie cannot wait to escape her mother. Whilst many people dream of moving to LA and into the spotlight, she is desperate...

A tale of family, love, nuclear war, and… UFOs; a classic novel from iconic Japanese author Yukio Mishima, available in English for the first time. Like nothing else that Mishima wrote, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that...

Blending wit, warmth, and rebellion, a story of desire and ambition in which the indomitable Mitzy Barlow builds a Tupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist revolution among the housewives of her London suburb London, 1969. Housewife...

I Kwimper, una famiglia di sfaticati che vive di sussidi per la disoccupazione, durante un viaggio in auto prendono per sbaglio una strada in costruzione e si ritrovano, senza benzina, nel cuore del nulla americano. Una terra di nessuno che non figura nemmeno sulle carte geografiche, e che dunque può essere colonizzata, reclamandone la proprietà. La situazione ideale per cominciare da capo, come veri pionieri, e costruirsi un nuovo mondo: peccato che la terra promessa vada difesa dalle pretese di due funzionari del governo fin troppo zelanti, e di una banda di gangster da strapazzo.