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Bloomsbury presents Death Valley written and read by Melissa Broder. ‘Riotously original ... A triumph’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A journey unlike any you've read before’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ‘Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense’ GLAMOUR The most...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is autumn 2004 and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, a family endures the agonizing wait for their son to return from Iraq. His decision to join up has left them reeling, yet there are other pressing concerns to be met at home: the working of the...

Passion, faux-semblants, emprise... Qui manipule qui ? Une jeune femme fragile en quête d'un nouveau départ. Un couple magnétique et fascinant prêt à lui ouvrir les portes de son monde doré. Un trio pris au piège d'un jeu cruel et d'une dépendance fatale. Dans ce roman sombre et envoûtant, Mélissa da Costa explore, à travers l'histoire d'une passion toxique, la face obscure de l'âme humaine et les méandres du désir.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly absurdist novel about...

In the shadow of rising Soviet power, Oksana Kovalenko's peaceful childhood is shattered by the relentless grip of tyranny. At thirteen, she is thrust into a world of hunger and fear, becoming an unlikely beacon of hope in Ukraine's desperate struggle against an iron-fisted regime.

Crotone, 509 a. C. Melissa, giovane allieva della scuola di Pitagora, si salva dall'eccidio dei pitagorici grazie a Liseo, appartenente al gruppo dei congiurati ma da sempre innamorato di lei. La ragazza però, di fronte al giovane che le dichiara il suo amore e la chiede in sposa, rifiuta di concedersi e solo con la violenza Liseo otterrà quel che vuole. Dopo quella violenza viene venduta come schiava a Cluvio, vecchio capo dei Sanniti. Al villaggio sannita, Cluvio le affida l'educazione dei figli e delle donne di casa.

When New York Times best-selling novelist Cap Millhouse finds himself alone, destitute, and defeated on the cold winter streets of his hometown, his former fame now buried beneath mountains of despair. His new reality dances in the wake of decisions he can never undo and memories he can never escape. Imprisoned inside his own psyche, Millhouse believes his death is the only path capable of finally putting his demons to rest.