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Brought to you by Penguin. For Constance ‘Connie’ Costa, life is just beginning. She dreams of leaving behind her dull, dreary life in ‘70s East London, shaking off her deeply embarrassing Greek-Cypriot community of interfering Aunties and pretend ‘cousins’, and running away with her...

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

‘Brilliantly-written characters, original and engaging. It’s so good!’ BA Paris JOANNE HAYNES HAS A SECRET. THAT IS NOT HER REAL NAME. And there’s more. Her flat isn’t hers. Her cats aren't hers. Even her hair isn’t really hers. Nor is she any of the other women she pretends to be...

Bloomsbury presents The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, read by Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Bahni Turpin and Heather Alicia Sims. * THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ‘One of the biggest reads of the summer, and for good reason’ INDEPENDENT ‘Enormously fun . . . A...

Brideshead, bon-bons, cucumber sandwiches - and now a murder. In the decadent world of Oxford University, c.1985, Pimms, punting and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term, anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books - and, perhaps, an invitation to a ball. But when she discovers a body, Ursula is catapulted into a murder investigation.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...tequila, guns and cocaine. Inspired by the author's time with Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Girl is a smart, rollicking ride told with heart, a loving fictional portrait of a larger-than-life literary icon, and soon to be a major film. Alley Russo is a recent college grad desperately trying to make it in the gruelling world of New York publishing, but like so many who have come before her, she has no connections and has settled for an unpaid magazine internship...

Brought to you by Penguin. A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCH Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women...

Bloomsbury presents Hard Copy by Fien Veldman, read by Sarah Slimani and James Faulkner. 'A talented new voice worth paying attention to.' Irish Times 'Equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard 'Many astute observations... very funny on the tedium of...

‘Utterly compulsive’ Fiona Cummins FIVE MISSING. THE HUNT IS ON FOR NUMBER SIX. THE SERIAL KILLER With five girls already missing and two dead police officers to add to the body count, the hunt is on. But how do you catch a man who doesn’t exist? THE VICTIM Held captive for months, Erica...

A hellacious thunderstorm rages over the small tin mining town of Bleddington, waking reclusive teenager, Willard Jennings, from his sleep. As the fleeting flashes of light illuminate the room, he sees brief and taunting glimpses of a broken figure standing at the foot of his bed.

Ellie is twenty-one. She’s already decided that she’s one of life’s losers. She has no friends, no family, and not much of a life, and although she’s not happy, she’s not sad either; she just is. Life, she believes, is mapped out from birth, and there’s nothing she can do to change it. Until, one day, she discovers that if she’s prepared to do what others won’t, she can have everything she ever wanted. Her life begins to change, and she starts to make friends, and she begins to believe that maybe she can have what everyone else has.

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head. “The novel surprises us by blending visceral horror with laugh-out-loud humor...

Once one of the CIA’s most talented agents, Elayna Miller struck off on her own for moral reasons. Now surrounded by a like-minded team, she selects her cases carefully and only kills those who really have it coming. When her latest case leads Elayna to Mexico, it also takes her in an unexpected direction--toward her past. In the aftermath, Elayna has to confront the fact that no one she loves is as safe as she has believed, and her team will never be the same again.

Fresh out of rehab and running from scandal, Jaycee Grayson didn’t come to play. A disgraced kids’ entertainment exec with no filter and nothing to lose, she’s landed in Littleburgh, Wisconsin—home to a beloved doll empire where nothing is at it seems. Not the town, not the missing empress behind the lucrative legend, and definitely not the two-faced Prairie Karens running the show.

A female attorney named Keisha is intimately involved in a relationship with a female author named Zoi’ and a male gynecologist named Greg. Keisha has been able to keep her idiosyncrasies hidden from her family and friends for months, but now her secret affair with Zoi’ is creeping to the forefront. Keisha is feeling pressured by Zoi’ to end her relationship with Greg and equally pressured by Greg to get married now. She has finally realized that she must choose between the love of her life, Zoi, and the politically correct life with Greg she is supposed to live.

"[Narrators Rita] Amparita and [Stephanie] Németh-Parker excel in providing distinct voices for the many female characters. Listeners will find themselves entranced by their performances. " — AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun...

Filled with copious amounts of black humor, Gerri R. Gray's first published novel is an offbeat adventure story that could be described as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Thelma and Louise. Flashback to 1974. Farika is a lovely young woman who wakes up one day to find herself a patient in a bizarre New York City psychiatric asylum. She has no idea who she is, and possesses no memories of where she came from nor how she got there.

Incendiary Girls explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and humor. In these stories, our bodies become strange and unfamiliar terrain, a medium for transformation. In "Fundamental Laws of Nature", a doctor considers her legacy, both good and bad, when she discovers that her mother has been reincarnated as a thoroughbred mare. In the title story, a mischievous angel chronicles the remarkable life of a girl just beyond death’s reach.

Another brick in the wall? Not bloody likely! Rebel student Samara Jones is one very lost young woman until she happens upon a flock of silvery geese, their goofy shepherd, and his wacko pals. Can they really help her turn her life around, or will Samara tank totally? The answer will surprise you.

Mina Clark is losing her mind - or maybe it’s already gone. She isn’t quite sure. Feeling displaced in her over-priced McMansion-dotted suburban world, she is grappling not only with deep debt, a mostly absent husband, and her playground-terrorizer three-year old Emma, but also with a significant amnesia she can’t shake - a “temporary” condition now going on several years, brought on by a traumatic event she cannot remember, and which everyone around her feels is best forgotten.