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A dystopian field guide to the end of the world from the author of AUTUMN and HATER. Ninety-nine per cent of the population are dead, struck down by a deadly virus. Experience the apocalypse from the perspectives of who've survived through luck, not skill. They are a desperate bunch: cheating lovers, workshy civil servants, permanently drunk publicans, teenage rebels, obsessive accountants, failed husbands, disrobed priests, and more...The only thing they have in common is the fact they're still alive (for now).

Five steamy, full-length reverse harem romance stories of badass alpha males and the women they make their own. This collection includes The Inheritance, The Renovation, The Promotion, The Gallery, and The Collection.

In this classic collection of four novellas, the grand master takes you on irrestistible journeys into the far reaches of horror, heartache and hope. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is the story of two men convicted of murder - one guilty, one innocent - who form the perfect partnership...

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our best writers, Lauren Groff returns with a fierce new story collection, her first since the award-winning and bestselling Florida. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California -...

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries, and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover, and the assignment appealed to his love of romance, and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.

Struggling to switch off your thoughts at night?Boring Bedtime Stories To Put YOU To Sleep Extra Fast is a calming collection of 20 slow, gentle, and wonderfully uneventful stories created to help quiet a busy mind, release daily stress, and guide you naturally towards deep, restful sleep.Each...

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories. Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Trickery by Roald Dahl, read by Kevin Eldon, Stephen Mangan, Cillian Murphy, Derek Jacobi, Richard E. Grant, Stephanie Beacham, Jessica Hynes, Andrew Scott and Tom Felton. How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and...

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories gets beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate...

Two unexpected tales written and read by the best-selling author of The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories and The History Boys. "The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many...

Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold.

Dreizehn atemberaubende Geschichten. Ein sagenumwobener Tag. Eine Verbindung, die alles verändert. Am Tag des Dreschens hoffen alle Kadetten des Basgiath War College, von einem Drachen gebunden zu werden – oder sie sterben bei dem Versuch. Trotz gnadenlosem Wettbewerb und Drachenfeuer stellen...

One of 46 books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives listeners a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Brought to you by Penguin. A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day...

Fear Feed: Bite Sized HorrorAn influencer takes "views" to a gruesome extreme by walking her audience through a step-by-step tutorial on how she finds, collects, and preserves the eyes of her victims...

Trapped on a deserted road in the dead of night, a man becomes the unwilling plaything of a malevolent spirit that toys with his senses and twists his reality. Another stalled car blinking in the distance suggests he isn't the first driver to be stranded here-and whatever found them may now be...

THE WATCHER SEES ALL. THE VAULT REVEALS LITTLE.Some doors should never be opened. Some secrets should remain buried. And some stories will follow you long after the final page.Welcome to Stories From the Vault, a chilling collection of eleven original horror stories presented by The Watcher...

The Son of Thunder: The Last WitnessThe Temple has fallen. The Apostles are dying. The darkness is closing in.From the salt-sprayed shores of Galilee to the golden marble of Ephesus, John has walked a path unlike any other. Once a hot-tempered fisherman known as the "Son of Thunder," he was...

Vier außergewöhnliche Weihnachtsgeschichten über Menschlichkeit, Mut und die Kraft der Nächstenliebe. Was geschieht, wenn ein Mensch alles verschenkt, was er besitzt? Wie kann die Gastfreundschaft einer einzigen Frau ein ganzes Dorf verändern? Und warum haben Esel eigentlich einen solchen...

These warm, festive, and magical stories portray the bustle and fervor of the Christmas shopping season At Christmas time, department stores overflow with color and festivity, their halls bedecked with the trimmings of the season. In these charming, memorable, and even magical Christmas tales...