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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat "A wry work of spectacular wit...

I’m a psychologist. Dr Emy Rose. Although that’s not my real name. I run a pioneering new government project, persuading convicted murderers to give up their secrets – namely, the resting places of their victims. The work I do is gruelling: one-to-one interrogations, conducted over months, with some of the most despicable people on the planet. But it’s about getting answers for the families. And – this part’s a secret – I know better than most how much that means…And nobody else knows how far I am willing to go, to get a murderer to confess.

Instant Sunday Times Bestseller "Wickedly funny." —People "A gleeful satir[e]." —Sunday Times “Ferociously entertaining.”—Good Housekeeping (UK) With the bite of The White Lotus and the family dynamics of Succession, What a Way to Go is an uproarious and satirical whodunnit about...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “Fans of The White Lotus and Knives Out will gobble up this whip-smart whodunit.”—Marie Claire "A gripping whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie, A Killer Wedding will keep you guessing until the final, shocking twist.” —Liv Constantine, New York Times...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women’s Wear Daily, and more “Dark academia clan...

Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network. Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting network. When Max Andrews, the much-loved and handsome...

New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots. Meet...

In einem Hotel im Schwarzwald von einem axtschwingenden Irren als Kuckucksuhren-Bauer versklavt … ist das das Ende von Heff dem Chef und seinen unglücklichen Angestellten?

Der Eigenbrötler Nicol liebt nichts mehr als die malerische kleine Bucht samt Cottage und Bootshaus, die er auf der Hebriden-Insel Gigha gepachtet hat. Ausgerechnet dort will nun der beliebte schottische Schauspieler und Regisseur Jim McKechnie seinen neuen Film drehen. Als McKechnie Nicol androht, seine Kontakte spielen zu lassen, um Nicol von seinem geliebten Fleckchen Erde zu vertreiben, kommt es zu einem wüsten Streit zwischen den beiden Männern. Am nächsten Morgen spült das Meer Nicol eine Überraschung vor die Haustür: eine männliche Leiche im Kilt. McKechnie?

Alex Flynn, chief of Trowbridge Rescue, recollects poignant elements of a friendship during Alex’s days in government service. The story remembers love, fear, and sadness released when hearing The Steve Miller Band’s song “The Joker”.

Brought to you by Penguin. Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their...

Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne's seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and total outcast.

For Damir, time is money. He bikes around the city collecting food orders, rushing through the cycle lanes next to Uber drivers and grocery vans – and all the other people delivering your every desire. He arrives with your sushi rolls and fries and disappears into the night – Ping! Onto the next drop. He is invisible; one player in the boardgame of the city. But one summer’s evening, a chance encounter changes all the rules. Damir arrives on Decca’s doorstep with a bag of spilled edamame beans, in a postcode that could be another universe, and there’s an immediate connection.

Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug, and the young man fell out of a window to his death. Edward's guilt and depression are worsened by daily letters from the young man's mother cursing Edward as a murderer. Tortured, Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram.

Nummer 1 på New York Times’ bestsellerliste og vinder af Costa First Novel Book Award 2017.

Eleanor Oliphant er en socialt kejtet kvinde, der lever et liv i ensomhed. På hverdagene passer hun sit kontorjob, og weekenderne består af dybfrost-pizza og vodka. Men hun har det helt ’fint’, og ingen har nogensinde fortalt hende, at livet kan være mere end det.

Alting forandrer sig dog, da Eleanor møder Raymond, den kluntede, usoignerede IT-fyr fra kontoret. Da hun og Raymond sammen hjælper Sammy, en ældre herre, der er faldet på fortovet, spirer et venskab gradvist frem mellem dem.

Anthony Wistern es más rico de lo que cualquiera podría imaginar. Lo tiene todo: una esposa despampanante, un puñado de hijos muy fotogénicos, un castillo francés, una mansión en Cotswold, una plétora de amantes, una inclinación a tomar atajos morales... Por desgracia para él, también está muerto. Ahora, con su fortuna como inminente herencia, todos los miembros de la familia caen bajo sospecha. Y es entonces cuando todo se viene abajo...

Fran Donoghue has just killed her neighbour. Don’t worry, you’ll agree, he deserved it. Detective Gareth Donoghue has a terrible feeling about his missing neighbour. By the time this is over, that will be the least of his worries… A dark, sharp and hilarious novel about love, marriage, and murder, with an ending you won’t see coming… Gareth certainly didn’t.

Liv ist 48, Ehefrau, Mutter, Küchenplanerin und – nachdem ihre erste Hitzewallung eine tödliche Kettenreaktion ausgelöst hat: Mörderin. Jetzt schläft Liv nicht mehr nur wegen des Hormonmangels schlecht, sondern auch wegen ihrer Schuldgefühle. Aber sich stellen und ins Gefängnis gehen ist keine Option, immerhin muss sie sich um drei pubertierende Kinder und ihren Mann Jörn kümmern, und natürlich um Marlies und Werner, ihre betagten Schwiegereltern. Bleibt nur eins, um mit sich ins Reine zu kommen: Liv muss ihre Einstellung ändern, ein positives Mindset erarbeiten.

Al of Trowbridge Rescue works a shift on a commercial ambulance on the day that Vermont experiences the first ears of sweet corn. One medic says: “I wanna eat so much corn, I’ll shit kernels ‘til Thursday.” He partner replies, “The butter and salt will drip down my chin”. The crew of two ambulances celebrate an ersatz holiday.

Auch wenn es die Form einer Kuckucksuhr hat, verspricht das Hotel, in das Heff und seine Mannen sich zurückgezogen haben, besseren Schutz zu bieten als die Hütte im Wald - oder etwa nicht? Denn mit dem Hausverwalter Jacob Torrans scheint etwas nicht zu stimmen ...