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A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth KostovaParis, 1869. The Theatre Saint-Simeon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayArnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).

A darkly magical retelling of Hans Christian Andersens "The Snow Queen" for fans of Ava Reid and Katherine Arden,from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Nettle & Bone. Gerta has been in love with her neighbor, Kay, for as long as she can remember. Kay thinks Gerta is...fine.When Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, its up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, spirit roads and shape-shifters. Accompanied by a talking raven and a strangely entrancing bandit girl named Janna, Gerta travels further north than north to confront the Snow Queen and rescue Kay.The journey will be dangerous, but the unpredictable currents of her own heart might be the most frightening thing of all.

They say she cant win. She knows she cant lose.An expansive, inspiring feminist novel about one womans rise as a racing driver in mid-century Britain._________________A commanding, expansive, confident novel turbocharged with courage and heart JOSEPH OCONNOR_________________Its 1945 and Winifred Freddy Vaux fears shes the only person who isnt thrilled the war is over. All she wants is to drive. Ambulances, recovery vehicles, anything. While shes still allowed behind the wheel, it wont be her occupation and certainly not fast.But she makes a resolution in a Victory night race: she must pursue race car driving. No matter the cost.From the country lanes of her youth to Europes most exhilarating tracks, Freddys thunderous ambition takes her where no woman has gone before. However, travelling at such speeds, friends and lovers can be lost in an instant.Freddy has a lot to learn. Driving was the easy part.____________________Praise for Kelly Frost:CompellingSunday TimesA storyteller who is here to stay Joseph OConnorA startling new talent Peter James

This dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel sees Will Selfs middle-class, middle-English characters apparently trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors, until one day someone says something to the effect of, This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.The Quantity Theory ofMorality finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious, showing Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life.With The Quantity Theory of Morality, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasnt enough sanity to go around - now hes established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isnt enough good to go around, either.

The Poems of Sylvia Plath is a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poets work for scholars, students and general readers. Sylvia Plaths first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that edition. The book is in two parts: the first contains the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and upon which her reputation is founded, and the second includes those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections, the editors date, correct and arrange each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related archival material. Critical notes document and cast new light on Plaths extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions, through the early blossoming of her talent and ambition, and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years, securing her place in literary history.

Someone knows about Julia Glynns affair. She and husband Michael are the envy of their neighbours: prosperous, devout, the model couple. Then one day, an anonymous letter arrives with the morning papers, describing Julias trysts with Michaels nephew in obscene detail.Frantic with suspicion and frustrated desire, Julia imagines catastrophe in their small, curtain-twitching town. As the letters keep arriving, she struggles to retain composure and proceed with plans for a family pilgrimage to Lourdes - only for other buried scandals to come knocking at the door of their pristine home. Frank in its depiction of sexuality and queerness in 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage was immediately banned on original publication. Outrageous and bleakly funny, it is a powerful evocation of the corrosive effects of repression.

She felt like a woman imprisoned in a luxurious room; to whom visitors are admitted; whose life goes on very much as it has always done; but who is conscious that if she lifted the thick carpet she would gaze down into a pit of wild beasts. Julia Glynn is the very model of a prim and well-conducted bourgeois Catholic wife, a regular Mass-goer and president of her local charitable society. Her crippled husband, Michael, is the richest man in town, held in awe by bankers and bishops alike. In his illness he is dutifully tended to by the household manservant, Stephen Lydon, and by his handsome young nephew, Doctor Jim. As Michaels condition worsens, their friend Father Victor proposes a pilgrimage to Lourdes. When Julia begins receiving a series of obscene anonymous letters detailing her sexual infidelities with Jim, her suspicions fall on the sinister Stephen, who both attracts and repels her. As the day of departure to Lourdes approaches, the heart of an Irish small town as watchful as the jungle is laid bare, its inhabitants stripped of their respectable clothes to reveal an elemental sensuality. The Pilgrimages depiction of sexual need in 1950s Ireland led to its banning by the Censorship Board in 1961. Retitled The Chameleons in 1965, it sold over 100,000 copies in America. This reissue restores Broderick to his rightful place alongside McGahern, OBrien and OFaolain, taking a new generation of readers on a unique pilgrimage of the body. A preface to the French edition by Julien Green is here translated for the first time.

Poetry is Palestines most cherished art form a way to voice resistance and preserve cultural memory. This powerful bilingual anthology captures a century of both celebration and struggle.The twenty-one poets gathered here span a remarkable range: from the lyrical rhetoric of Tawfiq Zayyad to the cosmic imagery of Walid al-Halis; from the romantic cadences of Salma al-Jayyusi to the profound sense of belonging in Mahmoud Darwish. Together, their work embodies the enduring spirit of a people who once all called Palestine home.Edited and introduced by the literary scholar A.M. Elmessiri, The Palestinian Wedding is arranged around six resonant themes: revolution, war, elegy, belonging, resistance and steadfastness.

When the past claws its way back, the hunt for truth could cost him everything.Five years after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Eva, haunted PI Ravn is dragged back into the one case hes never been able to close. New evidence surfaces, igniting a desperate chase for justice that plunges him into a dark web of crooked cops, a dying hitman, and a powerful elite guarding a deadly secret.To get the answers he craves, Ravn must strike a dangerous bargain with ruthless crime boss Kaminsky: recover 71 million in stolen cash, or lose everything. From Copenhagens gritty underworld to the corridors of corrupt power, Ravn will risk it all to unmask Evas killerif the truth doesnt destroy him first.The Pact is the electrifying fifth novel in the bestselling Ravn seriesperfect for fans of "Department Q" and Nordic noir that cuts to the bone.

A courageous story about a mother in crisis from one of Norways most exciting writers, for readers of Boulder and Detransition, BabySilje Marie has been keeping a secret from her wife. She loves one of her sons more than the other.In their sleepy suburb of Oslo, shes given Henry and Olav the childhood she never had: organic cotton clothing, a house by the forest, apple pies baked with Grandma on summer afternoons.But when Silje Marie stays behind to clear the house for an upcoming renovation, buried thoughts resurface. She is haunted by the sense that only one of her children truly feels like her own-an admission that would destroy her wife, Helene. Worse still, there is the other mother. A woman befriended in secret, whose sons resemblance to Henry is impossible to ignore.Spiky, daring and feverishly intense, this is a story about the complex confinement and joy of family life, and a mother drawn towards dismantling the home she has fought so hard to build.Raises impressive ruminations on the nature of this ownership we call love Kenan Orhan, author of The RenovationBrave, well-written, distinctive MorgenbladetExceptionally powerful Vrt LandDigs deep into the gnarly emotions hidden behind domesticity Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors newly reissued!ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMID____Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.___

Katharine Hepburn won more Oscars than any actor in history - and yet her most memorable role is the one she carved for herself.Hollywood in the early 1930s is a town full of secrets. When Katharine Hepburn arrives to launch her film career, she leaves behind her East Coast marriage and icy patrician family to live and love on her own terms. But stars must play by the rules and Kate, brilliant and bisexual, refuses to conform. Surrounded by a legendary circle of intimates, including the powerful David and Irene Selznick, charming and romantically conflicted actor Cary Grant, ambitious director John Ford, and millionaire tycoon Howard Hughes, Kate navigates a web of sex, ambition, loyalty, and betrayal. All of them strive for success while struggling to outrun their own secrets. As Kates career ascends, she faces an agonizing choice: be the star everyone wants her to be, or risk everything to become the woman she always was. Drawing on primary archival sources, Parmar brings a fresh perspective to Hepburns life and sparkling career

A slim, virtuoso novel about age and imagination, by one of Italys greatest contemporary writers82-year-old Nicola has spent his entire life telling stories, and becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records lifes minutiae, its ephemera, those almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice. Recording the universe in each grain of sand has become second nature to Nicola. But there is always something that escapes, remaining on the margins, intuited rather than identified. And this fact, for Nicola, is a source of deep anxiety and a growing sense of failure.Now, ensconced in a house on the dunes south of Rome, Nicola spends his mornings writing, watching the waves, and observing Lu, a store clerk in her twenties whose graceful canoeing stirs faint echoes of his mother. As Nicola reflects on the women who shaped him and the passions he has never outgrown, he finds himself drawn into the intrigues of the small seaside town. He will end by embarking on an improbable and ill-advised kayak adventure of his own with Lus young son, as Starnone brings his tale about memory and reinvention to an unexpected conclusion.

Silence is not empty.It is selective.In The Silent Lesson, the trials deepen. Sound is stripped away, commands are no longer spoken, and obedience is measured not by reactionbut by restraint. As Mara moves through chambers built to listen, erase, and compare, sheuders confrontation emerges: not only with the Sovereigns system, but with another initiate whose mastery of silence has always come at a cost.Here, power is no longer instruction.It is calibration.Through mirrored breath, competing stillness, and the quiet cruelty of comparison, Mara learns that obedience can bind two bodies at oncebut only one can endure without breaking. What marks her is not punishment, but recognition.The Silent Lesson is a slow, ritual-driven erotic novella focused on internalized control, consent through structure, and the moment silence stops being absence and becomes identity.For readers of psychological BDSM, ritualized power exchange, and erotic fiction where restraint carries more weight than force.

Some doors do not test obedience.They test what remains when obedience is no longer required.In The Fourth Door, the final part of The Obedience Trials, Mara reaches the threshold that cannot be forced, anticipated, or earned through submission alone. Rivalry collapses. Instruction falls away. What remains is withholdingretained discipline carried without command.As the Sovereign withdraws guidance and comparison dissolves, Mara confronts the final distinction between obedience learned and obedience embodied. The Fourth Door opens not to action, but to alignmentand what waits beyond it is not another trial, but containment.This concluding volume brings the ritual arc to completion, focusing on internalized control, silent recognition, and the irreversible shift that occurs when submission becomes a permanent state rather than a response.A slow, psychologically precise erotic novel for readers of ritual-driven BDSM, power exchange without spectacle, and erotic fiction where silence is the final authority.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARA masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoningOBSERVER, Fiction to look out for in 26An immersive and unforgettable novel of one mans life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone forever.Against this rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau - freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man - journeys to find meaning and belonging. From the relative safety of home in Tennessee with his sister Rosalee, he is offered the possibility of a whole new life in Nashville, until a surprising trip to Victorian England changes everything.Exquisitely rendered, and with a rich cast of characters, The Newer World is a lyrical, visceral novel about what it is to survive, and what might be lost along the way.

An unputdownable domestic suspense thriller from the bestselling, beloved crime author Emma Curtis________________On quiet streets, there are secrets behind every turn...Ed and Megan have just moved into the house of their dream neighbourhood in east London. They couldnt believe their luck when their offer was accepted. Megan is pregnant. Life couldnt be better.But as soon as they move in, the problems begin. Their new neighbour is a nightmare, being a constant disturbance and causing damage to their property.There seems to be no easy solution and when on of their neighbours outbursts endangers Megans pregnancy, Ed decides he must take action - one way or another...___________________Readers love Emma Curtis...You cant go wrong with an Emma Curtis bookA masterclass in suspenseKeeps you guessing till the endSo many surprising twistsCharacters are so well-written

Were trying the natural way, Havers once said when asked about children in their queer partnership. What follows is their sparklingly disruptive debut, drawing on inside jokes, ironies and imaginings for new ways of thinking about what we call natural and the ways and paths we choose to get there.From Oscar Wilde to an unlikely pelican, this books wandering way resists the traditional nature poem, instead digging into the muck and rock of queer wilderness. Formally inventive, these poems span the width of the page and draw on mathematics, tablecloth patterns and swimming pools for their structures. Ingenious and funny, Havers debut questions received ideas about inheritance and legacies: what if, it asks, we live outside the familiar, familial archive?

((Fur die Vorschau))Die Pariserin Madame LEspanaye und ihrer Tochter Camille wurden im vierten Stockwerk ihres ansonsten leerstehenden Hauses auf grausame Weise ermordet. Doch alle Turen und Fenster zum Raum sind von innen verriegelt. Wie konnte der Morder also fluchten? Der brillante Detektiv Auguste Dupin bringt Licht in den unerklarlichen Fall.((Fur Onix))The Parisian Madame LEspanaye and her daughter Camille are found gruesomely murdered on the fourth floor of their otherwise empty house. Yet all the doors and windows to the room are locked from the inside. How could the murderer have escaped? The brilliant detective Auguste Dupin sets out to shed light on this baffling case.