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Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjrgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing. Vaim, Jon Fosses first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the story of this triangle, a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. And all, of course, was strange

The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America, from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author T. Kingfisher. Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Stephen Graham Jones.Alex Easton does not want to visit America.They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousinwho went missing in that very minewell, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...

The Sunday Times Thriller of the MonthBirds, Strangers and Psychos is a thrilling anthology that brings together the biggest names in mystery and crime fiction to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary filmmaker whose name is synonymous with suspense. Acclaimed editor Maxim Jakubowski curates 24 original short stories, each inspired by the mood, tension, and style that defined Hitchcocks groundbreaking work. This anthology invites both emerging and established voices to reimagine the chilling atmospheres, twisted plots, and unforgettable characters of Hitchcocks films, from Psycho and Vertigo to North by Northwest and The Birds.Each author takes on the challenge of evoking the quintessentially Hitchcockian elements that have captivated audiences for decades: ordinary lives interrupted by peril, psychological duels, and unexpected encounters that spiral into nightmares. The volume showcases an extraordinary blend of talent, including Lee Child, Denise Mina, Sophie Hannah, Vaseem Khan, MW Craven, Jeff Noon and S. A. Cosby and many more!Just as Hitchcock adapted stories from literary giants like Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, and Roald Dahl, Birds, Strangers and Psychos unites todays literary stars to craft new suspenseful tales that are destined to thrill, haunt, and unsettle. This volume is not just a collection of stories its an invitation to rediscover the artistry of suspense.

One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two womens conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annies memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister, nor will she ask them a single question about her: their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor. In The Other Girl, brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.

It wasnt just cats on the prowl. There were other animals that seemed too exotic or dangerous to go unnoticed and some were not simply surviving but thriving. Mammals such as the wild boar, once driven to extinction but now reestablished following escapes and illegal releases; a colony of yellow-tailed scorpions that have scuttled since Victorian times; wallabies, as far away from their native range as they could possibly get, bouncing around dale and moor How exciting would it be to go and try to see some of them for myself?Many are unaware that scorpions, Aesculapian snakes, eagle owls, wallabies and many more unusual non-native species are living and breeding in the British Isles but here they are.In An Unnatural History of Britain nature writer Kevin Parr travels the length and breadth of the country seeking out these rare creatures and exploring the myths and folklore that have emerged around them along the way.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD 2026Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...ABSOLUTELY RIVETING!!Will hook you from start to finish... I read in two days!Oh my gosh this book is so good!I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored itYour daughters are cursed. They will pursue men, but the men will be like water in their palms. Your granddaughters will love in vain. Your daughters, your daughters daughters, and all the women to come will suffer for mans sake...Eniiyi has heard about the family curse her whole life. Shes never believed in it. Shes also heard, her whole life, that she is the reincarnation of her dead aunt, Monife. Same eyes, same left hand, same scar in the same place. Shes never believed in that, either.Then she falls in love with a handsome local boy, and Monife begins to appear to Eniiyi: in her dreams, on the beach, in the mirror, pulling her, it seems, towards the same terrible fate. Can Eniiyi live her life on her own terms, or is history - and the curse - repeating itself?Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down Abi DareA rich and absorbing tale of destiny versus self-determinism... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages Jennie Godfrey

#1 New York Times bestselling author pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty, and what it means to be a monster in this sequel to the USA Today bestselling When Among CrowsA funeral. A heist. A mission born of desperation.When someone in Dymitrs family dies, hes called back home for the Empty Night, a funeral rite intended to keep evil at bay.The secret Dymitr is keeping from them makes returning home downright dangerous, but if he wants to get his hands on a book of curses that might appease Baba Jagas blood lust, he has no choice. And when that same funeral brings ferocious creature-of-legend Niko to town for his own bloody purposes, Dymitrs charade becomes impossible to maintain.Family gatherings can be brutal. Dymitrs might just be fatal.

Woody Allens wonderful novel reads like one of his filmsThe TelegraphAs a portrait of Woody Allen by Woody Allen, its a classic The StandardGood gags abound in this tale of a bespectacled Jewish writer caught up in a #MeToo takedownGuardianAsher Baum is quietly losing his mind. Can you blame him?Maybe what I really want is to make sense of all peoples lives. Of everything, the whole shebangA middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baums turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbour in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?Whats with Baum? is Woody Allens first novel and it is everything you would expect of him--and more. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life; an amusing glimpse into the New York publishing establishment; above all, a highly entertaining, tightly plotted, beautifully wrought piece of fiction from one of Americas greatest and most versatile cinematic and literary talents.

The instant New York Times Top 5 bestseller!I blew through this! Bonam-Young blends gritty reality, family, and passion to create a powerful story about acceptance and the power of opening up to love. I loved thisAbby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling authorIntroducing Prue and Milo in the brand new heart-warming and spicy strangers-to-lovers romcom and the start of a new duet from bestselling TikTok author Hannah Bonam-Young!Prudence Welch has always valued her introverted lifestyle in the small town of Baysville, Ontario. She is content with working at her fathers gas station, writing her beloved poetry, and caring for her mother who has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Despite her fathers continuous remarks that she should venture out of the town to have a more fulfilling life, Prue just cant leave it behind.Milo Kablukov is a free spirit, who has had his fair share of worldwide adventures and wild nights. But when he is called by his brother for an urgent family matter in Baysville, he finds that he just might have to stay put a while.After an intriguing encounter with Prue, Milo sets his sights on getting to know her, but he finds that a friendship with Prue may be different to what he had been expecting...

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. Theres the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. Theres the man whose death with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology. Another brilliant constellation novel in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night is a brilliantly imaginative epic novel of a small place by Olga Tokarczuk, one of the most daring and ambitious novelists of our time.

Michael McDowells Blackwater meets Clive Barkers The Great and Secret Show in the disturbing first installment of a new trilogy of intense, visceral, beautifully written queer horror set in a small New England town.A chilling supernatural tale of transgressive literary horror from the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.The lives of those residing in the isolated town of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire, are forever altered after three faceless entities arrive on Christmas morning to perform a brutal act of violencea senseless tragedy that can never be undone. While the townspeople grieve their losses and grapple with the aftermath of the attack, a young teenage boy named Rupert Cromwell is forced to confront the painful realities of his family situation. Once relationships become intertwined and more carnage ensues as a result of the massacre, the town residents quickly learn that true retribution is futile, cruelty is earned, and certain thresholds must never be crossed no matter what.Engrossing, atmospheric, and unsettling, this is a devastating story of a small New England community rocked by an unforgivable act of violence. Writing with visceral intensity and profound eloquence, LaRocca journeys deep into the dark heart of Burnt Sparrow, leaving you chilled to the bone and wanting more.

A statistics professor tries to survive a series of gruesome and impossibly unlikely disasters linked to a supernaturally lucky Vegas casino, while dealing with her own erasure as a bisexual, in this chilling and quick-witted horror novel.Whats happening in Vegas isnt staying there...Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurredthe Low-Probability Event. Eight million killed in a single day, each of them in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by parade balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds.Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, God is dead, and nothing matters anymore.When Special Agent Layne shows up on Veras doorstep, investigating a suspiciouslyand statistically impossiblylucky casino, he needs her help to prove the casinos role in the LPE. And offers Vera one last chance to make sense of an unlikely world.

Lennox, Vonnie and Ava head to Greenland to meet up with Heather, Sandy and the Enceladons, commencing an epic showdown that will change everything The emotive, devastating yet ultimately life-affirming conclusion to the bestselling Enceladons Trilogy, as seen on BBC2s Between the Covers`An affecting and thought-provoking read. Johnstones worldbuilding is top notch in this pacy eco-alien tale of peril and hope Tendai Huchu`Doug Johnstone has emerged as the unholy, octopoid lovechild of David Attenborough and Michael Crichton a thrilling, action-packed adventure Callum McSorley`Forget what you think you know about science fiction pick up this book if you want to explore what it means to be human, with all the hopes and fears, loves and losses that brings something Johnstone has done in so many of his novels, but rarely as beautifully as he does in this trilogy Scotsman`Surprising, compelling and out of this world Ann Morgan`Johnstone brilliantly plays out the tensions between competing groups and their response to the peaceful aliens off the coast of Greenland. But will they survive? Johnstone is a born storyteller whatever the subject Mirror`A delight! We need more novels that take on human exceptionalism with such gusto Ever Dundas______Its been eighteen months since the Enceladons escaped the clutches of an American military determined to exterminate the peaceful alien creatures.Lennox and Vonnie have been lying low in the Scottish Highlands, Ava has been caring for her young daughter Chloe, and Heather is adjusting to her new life with Sandy and the other Enceladons in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of Greenland. But fate is about to bring them together again for one last battle.When Lennox and Vonnie are visited by Karl Jensen, a Norwegian billionaire intent on making contact with the Encedalons again, they are wary of subjecting the aliens to further dangers. But when word arrives that Avas daughter has suffered an attack and might die without urgent help, they reluctantly make the trip to Greenland, where they enlist the vital help of local woman Niviaq.Its not long before theyre drawn into a complex web of lies, deceit and death. What is Karls company really up to? Why are sea creatures attacking boats? Why is Sandy acting so strangely, and why are polar bears getting involved?Profound, ambitious and immensely moving, The Transcendent Tide is the epic conclusion to the Encedalons Trilogy a final showdown between the best and worst of humanity, the animal kingdom and the Encedalons. The future of life on earth will be changed forever, but not everyone will survive to see it______`A powerful, poignant, and devastating finale to the Enceladons Trilogy, a series that has consistently blurred the lines between sci-fi, eco-thriller and character-driven drama a gut-punch of a read, serving up a tense, high-stakes plot thats as emotionally resonant as it is action-packed. It culminates as a bold and heartrending conclusion that resonates with profound themes and leaves an indelible impression SciFi Now`The gripping conclusion to his Enceladons trilogy exploring first contact, humanitys relationship with our planet, and the possibility of alien civilisations Daily Express`A brilliant novel, handling complex themes a timely meditation on mans destructive nature Ambrose Parry`Wonderfully drawn a serious critique of the state of the world today in a tense thriller anchored in the lives of ordinary people James Oswald`One of the best writers of his generation CrimeTime`The perfect end to the perfect trilogy Michael Wood`Powerful, profound, prescient and pacy Lyndsey Croal

Rivals-to-lovers romcom excellence Jenna LevineIrresistible to anyone looking for a steamy STEM romance Deidra DuncanTheyre polar opposites. But their attraction is magnetic... The rivalry between Dr Erin Monaghan and Dr Ethan Meyer is legendary in their prestigious physics lab. Each at the forefront of their opposing fields, they compete for everything: grant money, research time, government backing - and use of the office coffee machine. But its a basic law of nature that opposites attract, and sparks fly after a science fiction magazine pairs their work and they meet online as their creative alter egos. Back at the lab, and forced to collaborate on a high-profile government contract, Erin and Ethans sizzling virtual chemistry spills over into real life, threatening the projects success. With their careers and hearts on the line, can the law of attraction finally win out?Readers love TALK DATA TO MEGeeky, sexy, and irresistibly fun***** NetGalley reviewerWhat a stunning debut! This is what I want out of every book I read ***** NetGalley reviewerA heartwarming and emotional journey filled with chemistry, charm, and relatable characters ***** NetGalley reviewer

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeA boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his familys unravelling, a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow, and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs.Night of the Living Rez, the book that heralded the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction, is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community.

A stylistically bold and innovative, cinematic horror novel about greed and paranoia, set amongst the grit and mud of the trenches in WW1. Perfect for fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Alma Katsu.From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, and the co-author of The Shape of Water alongside Guillermo del Toro.Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Mans Land to euthanize a wounded comrade.What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.Angel Down plunges you into the heart of World War I and weaves a polyphonic tale of survival, supernatural wonder, and moral conflict.

When a young fisherman falls in love with a beautiful mermaid, he is faced with an impossible choice: to be with her, he must cast away his very soul. Thus begins a haunting journey through strange lands and spiritual trials, as his discarded soul, unwilling to be forgotten, takes on a life of its own.In The Fisherman and his Soul, Oscar Wilde weaves a poetic and philosophical fable that explores the boundaries of love, the cost of desire, and the redemptive power of compassion. Rich in symbolism and moral depth, this enchanting story reminds us that the greatest truths often lie hidden in the depths of the heart. A timeless classic from one of literatures most luminous voices.

Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in. Cat BohannonA myth-busting vindication of womens physical strengthsFor decades, Starre Vartan - like most women - was told that having a womans body meant being weaker than men. Like many women, she mostly believed it. Not anymore. Following a half decade of research into the newest science, Vartan shows in The Stronger Sex that womens bodies are incredibly powerful, flexible, and resilient in ways mens bodies arent. Tossing aside the narrow notion of the tall, muscular man as the measure of strength, Vartan reveals the ways that women surpass men in endurance, flexibility, immunity, pain tolerance, and the ultimate test of any human body: longevity. In interviews with dozens of researchers from biology, anthropology, physiology, and sports science, plus in-depth conversations with runners, swimmers, wrestlers, woodchoppers, thru-hikers, firefighters, and more, The Stronger Sex squashes outdated ideas about womens bodies. Its a celebration of female strength that doesnt argue down with men but up with us all.

In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients struggles, despite her husbands cautions. When she reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions, his nightmares stir up her own buried memories; while an impulsive attempt to help a Kurdish poet leads to a risky encounter and a reckless plan.As ill-fated decisions stack up, jeopardising the nameless narrators marriage and mental health, she takes a spontaneous trip to reunite with her mother in Albania, where her life in the United States is put into stark relief. When she returns to face the consequences of her actions, she must question what is real and what is not.Ruminative and propulsive, Misinterpretation interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.

Ci sono incontri che ti cambiano per sempre. E mostri che si nutrono delle tue paure piu profonde.Per Glyndon King, erede di una delle famiglie piu influenti della Gran Bretagna, larte e una valvola di sfogo dietro alla quale cela un dolore che la sta consumando.Una notte, sul bordo di una scogliera battuta dal vento, incontra Killian Carson. Studente di medicina dallaspetto angelico e dallanima demoniaca, Killian vede in lei qualcosa che nessun altro ha mai notato: unoscurita che rispecchia la sua.Con la freddezza di un predatore e la precisione di un chirurgo, Killian si insinua nella vita di Glyndon, dando inizio a unossessione reciproca. Lui e determinato a possederla completamente. Lei e incapace di resistere al richiamo dellabisso che Killian rappresenta.In un pericoloso gioco di potere e sottomissione, entrambi scopriranno che le cicatrici piu profonde sono quelle invisibili e che, a volte, e proprio nella totale oscurita che si puo trovare la luce piu accecante.Avvertenze:God of Malice, primo romanzo della serie Legacy of Gods,contiene scene di sesso non consensuale, altre dove il consenso e dubbio e rappresentazione di pensieri suicidi.