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Winner of the 2023 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction, Dr. No is the spy thriller reinvented with Percival Everett's typical biting satire. Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specialising in nothing.Kitu is content with nothing - studying it, having it, doing it - until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professor's help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing. Sill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: 'This country has never given anything to us and it never will.'

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The EconomistFrom the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire collapse so spec

The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

En 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII, d'Artagnan vient à Paris chercher fortune. Il se rend auprès de M. de Tréville commandant des mousquetaires et se lie à trois d'entre eux, Athos, Porthos et Aram

The Number One New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.He broke the chainsThen broke the world....A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered, outgunned but not out thought. Is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the agent of the world's destruction?

Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs: the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver. Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison.Two childhood best friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. Ive been living in the friend zone for years now. To Jasper Gervaiss fans, hes just the hockey heartthrob on TV. But to me, hes still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold. The man Ive loved in secret for years.So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that hes the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him, Im there to return the favour.But the more time alone we spend together, the more I start to realise that Jasper isnt looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isnt touching me like one, either. He acts like he wants me.But after years of turning me away, hes going to need to prove it . . .

Gaiari buruz, berriz ere, euskaldun prestu, ongi-pentsatzaile eta kristauari hain izugarri iruditzen bazaio ere, begirik miopeenak ikusi beharko du amodio horiek ez direla lizunak, haragiaren grina desordenatu eta desonestoak ez duela bertan lekurik hartzen, libidoaren indarra absente dagoela bertatik, gure erromantikoen denbora zaharretan mendi-mendian Mirentxu eta Maitena baten amodioak ez zirela garbiagoak izan; azkenean amodio horrek gorputzez bere burua eta amaiera hartzen baldin badu, funtsean sinbolo bat dela, errebeldiazko azken garrasi zoro bat, gizarte intolerante baten kontrako aldarri desesperatu bat. Eta Miranderen liburutik har dezakegun ikaskizun harrigarriena, hau da: Obra hau, libertateari eskainitako kantu bat dela; gezurra badirudi ere. Munduko hippiek inposiblearen bazterretan libertate amesgarri horri dedikatutako abesti eder, gaitz eta ezin bat. Hitz bitan esan beharko bagenu Haur besoetakoa zer iruditu zaigun, honela esanen genuke dela: ikaragarritasunean mamitutako edertasun inposible bat. GABRIEL ARESTI

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

Sara i David són dos éssers a la deriva que es troben per necessitat, que s’atrauen irremeiablement, perquè tots dos se senten perduts i desemparats en un món hostil. David és un adolescent impulsiu

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

Leblos liegt der Schäfer George Glenn im irischen Gras, ein Spaten ragt aus seiner Brust. Seine Schafe sind entsetzt: Wer kann den alten Schäfer umgebracht haben? Und warum? Miss Maple, das klügste Schaf der Herde, beginnt sich für den Fall zu interessieren. Glücklicherweise hat George seinen Schafen vorgelesen, und so trifft sie das kriminalistische Problem nicht ganz unvorbereitet. Unerbittlich folgen sie der Spur des Täters und kommen den Geheimnissen der Menschenwelt dabei nach und nach auf die Schliche, bis es ihnen schließlich gelingt, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen und den rätselhaften Tod ihres Schäfers aufzuklären.01Leonie Swann wurde 1975 in der Nähe von München geboren. Sie studierte Philosophie, Psychologie und Englische Literaturwissenschaft in München und Berlin. Die Idee zu ihrem Buch entstand während eines Aufenthaltes in Paris, als sie plötzlich eine große Sehnsucht nach dem Landleben überkam - und nach Schafen, mit denen sie auf einer Irlandreise Bekanntschaft geschlossen hatte. Ihr Debüt-Roman sorgte auf Anhieb auch international für Furore.

Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasnt worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life hes known. He also finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy. Joe is charming and handsome, but haunted by scars he cannot heal.Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town, and tore a hole in his heart. Violence flared, tragedy split the pack and Joe left town, leaving Ox behind. Three years later, the boy is back. Except now hes a man and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.

The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice now a major motion picture.When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murdererDuring a night of party games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub.Set against a night of trickery and the occult, Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to uncover the real evil responsible for this ghastly murder.Halloween Party is the sensational Agatha Christie novel that inspired the brand new feature film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. This special edition is introduced by its screenwriter, Michael Green.

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies' most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.

Que es l’absencia? Com ens hi enfrontem? Els personatges de Les absencies es veuen obligats constantment a conviure-hi: l’absencia de la mare, un avortament, familiars o amics que ja no hi són. El si

IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianismOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Irelands newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

Julia s Chapman s witty and engaging Dales Detective novel sees Delilah s brother under suspicion of murder Can Delilah and Samson prove he s innocent Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Robert T

A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the worlds great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Annas voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Austers most luminous works a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory.

A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammeds story.Kip has only three weeks until his publishers deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other.

Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Kayo is a forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become incomprehensible, Kayo finds that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task.

Winner of the 2023 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction, Dr. No is the spy thriller reinvented with Percival Everett's typical biting satire. Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specialising in nothing.Kitu is content with nothing - studying it, having it, doing it - until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill, who enlists the professor's help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox and use it to reduce the United States of America to nothing. Sill wants vengeance for another act of all-American villainy: the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: 'This country has never given anything to us and it never will.'

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The EconomistFrom the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire collapse so spec

The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

En 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII, d'Artagnan vient à Paris chercher fortune. Il se rend auprès de M. de Tréville commandant des mousquetaires et se lie à trois d'entre eux, Athos, Porthos et Aram

The Number One New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.He broke the chainsThen broke the world....A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered, outgunned but not out thought. Is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the agent of the world's destruction?

Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs: the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver. Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison.Two childhood best friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. Ive been living in the friend zone for years now. To Jasper Gervaiss fans, hes just the hockey heartthrob on TV. But to me, hes still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold. The man Ive loved in secret for years.So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that hes the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him, Im there to return the favour.But the more time alone we spend together, the more I start to realise that Jasper isnt looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isnt touching me like one, either. He acts like he wants me.But after years of turning me away, hes going to need to prove it . . .

Gaiari buruz, berriz ere, euskaldun prestu, ongi-pentsatzaile eta kristauari hain izugarri iruditzen bazaio ere, begirik miopeenak ikusi beharko du amodio horiek ez direla lizunak, haragiaren grina desordenatu eta desonestoak ez duela bertan lekurik hartzen, libidoaren indarra absente dagoela bertatik, gure erromantikoen denbora zaharretan mendi-mendian Mirentxu eta Maitena baten amodioak ez zirela garbiagoak izan; azkenean amodio horrek gorputzez bere burua eta amaiera hartzen baldin badu, funtsean sinbolo bat dela, errebeldiazko azken garrasi zoro bat, gizarte intolerante baten kontrako aldarri desesperatu bat. Eta Miranderen liburutik har dezakegun ikaskizun harrigarriena, hau da: Obra hau, libertateari eskainitako kantu bat dela; gezurra badirudi ere. Munduko hippiek inposiblearen bazterretan libertate amesgarri horri dedikatutako abesti eder, gaitz eta ezin bat. Hitz bitan esan beharko bagenu Haur besoetakoa zer iruditu zaigun, honela esanen genuke dela: ikaragarritasunean mamitutako edertasun inposible bat. GABRIEL ARESTI

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen's work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.

Sara i David són dos éssers a la deriva que es troben per necessitat, que s’atrauen irremeiablement, perquè tots dos se senten perduts i desemparats en un món hostil. David és un adolescent impulsiu

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

Leblos liegt der Schäfer George Glenn im irischen Gras, ein Spaten ragt aus seiner Brust. Seine Schafe sind entsetzt: Wer kann den alten Schäfer umgebracht haben? Und warum? Miss Maple, das klügste Schaf der Herde, beginnt sich für den Fall zu interessieren. Glücklicherweise hat George seinen Schafen vorgelesen, und so trifft sie das kriminalistische Problem nicht ganz unvorbereitet. Unerbittlich folgen sie der Spur des Täters und kommen den Geheimnissen der Menschenwelt dabei nach und nach auf die Schliche, bis es ihnen schließlich gelingt, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen und den rätselhaften Tod ihres Schäfers aufzuklären.01Leonie Swann wurde 1975 in der Nähe von München geboren. Sie studierte Philosophie, Psychologie und Englische Literaturwissenschaft in München und Berlin. Die Idee zu ihrem Buch entstand während eines Aufenthaltes in Paris, als sie plötzlich eine große Sehnsucht nach dem Landleben überkam - und nach Schafen, mit denen sie auf einer Irlandreise Bekanntschaft geschlossen hatte. Ihr Debüt-Roman sorgte auf Anhieb auch international für Furore.

Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasnt worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life hes known. He also finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy. Joe is charming and handsome, but haunted by scars he cannot heal.Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town, and tore a hole in his heart. Violence flared, tragedy split the pack and Joe left town, leaving Ox behind. Three years later, the boy is back. Except now hes a man and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.

The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice now a major motion picture.When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murdererDuring a night of party games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub.Set against a night of trickery and the occult, Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to uncover the real evil responsible for this ghastly murder.Halloween Party is the sensational Agatha Christie novel that inspired the brand new feature film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. This special edition is introduced by its screenwriter, Michael Green.

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies' most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.

Que es l’absencia? Com ens hi enfrontem? Els personatges de Les absencies es veuen obligats constantment a conviure-hi: l’absencia de la mare, un avortament, familiars o amics que ja no hi són. El si

IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianismOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Irelands newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

Julia s Chapman s witty and engaging Dales Detective novel sees Delilah s brother under suspicion of murder Can Delilah and Samson prove he s innocent Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Robert T

A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the worlds great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Annas voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Austers most luminous works a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory.

A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammeds story.Kip has only three weeks until his publishers deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other.

Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Kayo is a forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become incomprehensible, Kayo finds that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task.