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Pre-order QUEENIE IS WORKING ON IT, the brand new book from Candice Carty Williams, now People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson | Wonderful. Marian Keyes | I loved it. Sara Collins THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF QUEENIE If you could choose your...

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.

The fourth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Tokyo cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel...

The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last...

Nel quartiere di Yotsuya, a Tokyo, c’è un piccolo locale, uno shokudo, specializzato in oden, tipiche zuppe giapponesi, e stuzzichini a base di ingredienti di stagione: dal cavolo fermentato servito a dicembre ai fichi al vapore in salsa di miso a luglio. Rinfrancati dal borbottio dei pentoloni fumanti e dalle novità dei piatti del giorno, gli avventori si stringono lungo il bancone a L per condividere storie e sapori perduti, davanti a un boccale di birra alla spina o a un bicchierino di sakè, mentre Tamazaka Megumi, la proprietaria, si destreggia da sola tra i fornelli e la sala.

These short stories plunge readers into unpredictable worlds where danger and resilience collide. Whether battling drug dealers, navigating the chaos of gang life, or surviving the oppressive trauma of abuse, these stories capture the relentless struggle to endure. Grit, courage, and survival thread through every page, offering both heart-pounding tension and unforgettable lessons about the human spirit.

Holly is looking for a change. There has to be more to life than the long hours she works as an editor in New York City, despite what everyone says. What she doesn't expect when she leaves the city behind is to meet Mitch, a recluse who's hiding more than she realises. Mitch spends his days hidden away in a little log cabin in Inglenook Falls, where he owns a Christmas tree farm. He speaks to people only when necessary, so when Holly falls into his life, he's not sure how to react.

One million people follow Stella Lerner’s every move. And now the buzzy fashion designer is fulfilling her lifelong dream and taking her indie clothing brand global with the help of the industry’s biggest investor. Sounds perfect. Except offline, the optics aren’t so great. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Alex, is crumbling just as the pressure to curate her image online only builds. Feeling trapped between the picture-perfect life she’s promised her followers and the messy reality she’s facing, Stella anonymously joins a new dating app.

Street Ohana is a gritty coming-of-age crime novel about loyalty, survival, and the cost of growing up where the streets raise you faster than life ever should. Ghost never planned on becoming the man he is. He learned early how to fight, how to protect his own, and how to move through a world where trust is rare and consequences are permanent. Surrounded by his crew, brothers bound not by blood, but by shared scars, Ghost navigates love, violence, ambition, and loss in a city that never forgives weakness.

Every faith is inherited. So is every wound. Elias Carter was raised at his father’s altar—inside a church where belief was certainty, obedience was love, and legacy was everything. His father, a revered pastor, built a sanctuary that shaped generations. It also shaped the silences between them. Now grown, Elias serves people in quieter ways, far from the pulpit. But when his father’s health begins to fail, he is called back to the aging church—and to the man who expects him to carry what he can no longer hold. The building is deteriorating. The congregation is shrinking.

Before love comes logic and sometimes logic arrives late. After walking away from a connection that never fully aligned, Mo’Nia thought clarity would bring peace. Instead, it brings reflection. When Rich re-enters her orbit, familiarity feels comforting, chemistry feels easy, and boundaries begin to blur. What starts as restraint slowly becomes closeness and closeness has consequences. As intimacy deepens, Mo’Nia realizes something hasn’t changed: the definition. Rich is present, consistent, and emotionally available but never quite clear about where things are headed.

Una historia de memoria, deseo, duelo y revelación que captura, como pocas, la adolescencia cuando empieza a dejar de serlo. En el Madrid de 1995, Angie Llovet se enfrenta al verano que marcará para siempre su paso a la vida adulta. A su alrededor se alza Torres Blancas, un laberinto...

The narrative revolves around Jazzy's family - Joanne, Phillip, Jackson, Jacy, Jamar, Joseph, and their faithful dog, Brutus. Each character adds a layer of depth and richness to the story. The journey is further enriched by Jazzy's friends, Pookie, Beans and the Snaggletooth Twins, the enigmatic neighbor, Old Lady UpChurch, and the new boy in town, Buster Beaudreaux.

« Cinq étoiles ! Inspirant, enthousiasmant et d’une rare et brute intensité." RT Book Reviews Lorsqu’à onze ans, Jessica Creswell rencontra Callen Hayes, elle sut immédiatement qu’il était un prince brisé. Son prince. Ils étaient devenus un refuge l’un pour l’autre, un havre de...

Brought to you by Penguin. Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her...

When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome stranger Ben (after they try to rescue a cat together), the instant connection they make feels like fate had a hand in it. Has Liv finally found her perfect match? But everything about the timing means there’s no way they can be together. Not least because Ben has a girlfriend and Liv is moving from London to Paris the next day. Over the coming years their paths weave in and out of each other’s lives – together, but always fleetingly. If only they could stop missing each other, who knows what fate may have in store for them.

Chef-d'œuvre de la littérature russe, livre culte à travers le monde, "Le Maître et Marguerite" dénonce dans un rire féroce les pouvoirs autoritaires, les veules qui s'en accommodent, les artistes complaisants, l'absence imbécile de doute. Moscou, années 1930, le stalinisme est tout puissant, l'austérité ronge la vie et les âmes, les artistes sont devenus serviles et l'athéisme est proclamé par l'État. C'est dans ce contexte que le diable décide d'apparaître et de semer la pagaille bouleversant les notions de bien, de mal, de vrai, de faux.

It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the front and coolly assessed by the waitstaff in their tailored shirts, nothing could have prepared him for the tension and noise of the kitchen, or the dishpit’s clamor and steam.

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Renée Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood...

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...