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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Parson's Pleasure by Roald Dahl read by Derek Jacobi. In Parson's Pleasure, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain . . . Parson's Pleasure is...

A brilliant scientist's discovery becomes a sadistic tool in a very bizarre love triangle...An assassin brings his very unique skill set to the front lines of the zombie apocalypse...A little girl held captive by a demented killer finds an unexpected, inanimate, guardian... A father makes a deal with a band of unholy creatures to protect his daughter...Hordes of the unquiet dead find an earthly champion in a troubled young man...

It was supposed to be easy and simple… Now, my entire world has been flipped upside down. As the daughter of a Motorcycle gang leader, I had a duty to carry out his orders. I was just supposed to get information but little did I know, he had been hiding something from me. But after I am nearly beaten to death, I meet a gorgeous man, Griffin, who proves to me that not all men are worthless. He’s handsome and kind, making me feel things I haven’t felt before. I didn’t mean to leave him behind but now he’s back with a vengeance…

Gentle, witty and sometimes disturbing, DANGEROUS PLEASURES is Patrick Gale's first collection of much loved short stories 'Nattily subversive, sexually ambiguous, intelligent and disturbing. The prose sizzles with acidic observation' Sunday Times A funeral party ends in an unexpected manner...

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature - a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master’s landmark novel.

Après des études littéraires perturbées par une santé fragile, le jeune Marcel Proust passe une licence de lettres et de philosophie, une autre de droit mais sans désir de carrière. Cependant dès l'adolescence, paraissent en revue des nouvelles, pastiches, portraits, essais et poèmes en vers et en prose qu'il réunit sous forme d'itinéraire et publie à l'âge de 25 ans sous le titre Les plaisirs et les jours.

A long hot night in the city, pregnant with possibilities. The devil itself, visiting our realm to claim an errant soul. A jaded rockstar summoning a goddess of judgment for the hell of it. An abandoned lot whose sordid history has been long forgotten. Paramilitary Christians who travel through time to rescue Jesus from his crucifixion. A hotel room where a creature manifests as your most intimate desires so that it may feed off your synapses. These are just some of the places and people you will be introduced to in this unique collection of stories from the mind of Mike Krutz.

'It's the truth,' the women said from their mattress 'Everything is nice'. 'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' Ali Smith 'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet...

Nedanför trappan stod fru Carlsson med en näsduk tryckt mot munnen.”Åh, kan ni hjälpa mig, herr Nihlén”, sade hon och snyftade. ”Jag vet inte vem jag ska våga be om hjälp.””Vad har hänt?” undrade Nihlén.”Åh, det är så hemskt. Direktörn ligger död där uppe. Jag visste att det skulle gå illa. Varför skulle direktörn propsa på att sova i den gamla sovkammaren?” Hon brast ut i hysterisk gråt.”Det är rummet där baron Bielkenstierna hittades död, mystiskt strypt av osynliga händer …

I'm about to attend the sexiest family reunion I've ever been to.... Willie and I...have a bit of a history together.... Living under the same roof as teenagers, in such close proximity, it seems - in hindsight - that it was inevitable for what happened between the two of us to have taken place.... Now, after all this time, I'm about to see him again. The two of us are planning to meet once more at a family reunion. Will he even be there? This suspense is unbearable....