Showing results for "Breaking and Entering" in Literature & Fiction

Brought to you by Penguin. Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder. My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away. I don’t rob them, I don’t damage anything… I’m more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal. Life is...

Forty-nine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless: her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately air-conditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, but everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lock-picking.

A young barrister, on his wedding night, was in awful fear of being accused of "breaking and entering". A collection of short, poetic texts.

I woke up to the sound of crashing glass. I was terrified, but it turned out it wasn't a burglar but a man I'd slept with who wanted to drop off a Christmas present. He got a whole lot more, an overwhelming bout of good old hardcore rough sex! Warning: This audiobook contains explicit descriptions of rough sex and includes reluctant sex. Only mature listeners who won't find that offensive should listen to this audiobook.

Mom’s rich ex-boyfriend Jonny never gives me any of his money, so I do the only natural thing and break into his new house to take it. What I end up taking, though, is Jonny's big thickness as punishment.