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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life...

The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.'Noise may be the most important book I've read in more than a decade. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly important you will immediately put it into practice.A masterpiece'Angela Duckworth, author of Grit'An absolutely brilliant investigation of a massive societal problem that has been hiding in plain sight'Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakon...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Emotional and enlightening' WOMAN & HOME'The twist halfway through is a jaw-to-the-floor moment' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A perfect choice for your book clubs' PRIMAOlivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfr...

One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan, now with a stunning new cover look. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living.Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy.Misery made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up splinted and in pain, in the re...

Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his ...

A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive expose of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. McKinsey & Company have earned billions consulting for almost every major corporation in the world - and countless governments, including yours. Shielded by NDAs, their practices have remained hidden - until now.In this propulsive investigation, prize-winning journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe reveal the dis...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & MAJOR BBC ONE TV SERIES'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening Standard'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth DayAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squ...

The epic story continues in Court, the fourth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series. 'Fandom's new favourite vampire romance obsession' Hypable'This generation's Twilight' Lynn Rush 'I'm having the BEST book hangover. Filled with danger, humour, and heart, Crave proves that vampires are definitely back!' J.Kenner'Beautifully descriptive with amazing pacing and wonderfully sinister settings' Ch...

**THE TIKTOK SENSATION**Read THE razor-sharp satire that everyone is talking about... On the surface ,our narrator has everything you could want in life. She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.But there is a vacuum in her life and she's got the perfect solution. She's going to take a year under sedation to relax and hide away from the world. What cou...

The epic story continues in Charm, the fifth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series. 'Fandom's new favourite vampire romance obsession' Hypable'This generation's Twilight' Lynn Rush 'I'm having the BEST book hangover. Filled with danger, humour, and heart, Crave proves that vampires are definitely back!' J.Kenner'Beautifully descriptive with amazing pacing and wonderfully sinister settings' Chr...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay ____________________________This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this countr...

The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Witcher series that inspired the most watched Netflix show of 2019 and the blockbuster Witcher video game

The gripping new thriller from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Stay Close and The Stranger ... * The December 2022 Richard & Judy Book Club pick *'The absolute master' Richard Osman'A helter-skelter of a read!' Lisa Jewell'One of the all-time greats' Gillian Flynn'One of my favourites' John Grisham'At the top of his game' Peter James'Never lets you down' Lee Child'Twisty, well characterised, gently satirical' Jake Kerridge He is known as Wilde, the boy...

There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The TimesThe beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence.'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name.My friends call me Matty. And...

A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is fo...

Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!Read Twisted Games now for a steamy, angsty forbidden romance. She can never be his . .. but he's taking her anyway. Stoic, broody and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: protect his clients at all costs and do not become emotionally involved.Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules . .. until her. Bridget von Ascheberg.A princess with a stubborn streak that m...

A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman's acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series. From the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless.

The second novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series.

Najgłośniejsza powieść Vladimira Nabokova, uznawana za arcydzieło literatury światowej. Humbert Humbert – uczony, esteta i romantyk – zakochuje się bez pamięci w Dolores Haze, dwunastoletniej dziewczynce o jedwabistej skórze, która jest córką jego gospodyni. Czterdziestolatek ogarnięty obsesją na punkcie dziewczynki zgadza się na poślubienie pani Haze tylko po to, żeby być blisko Lolity. Kiedy dziewczyna zaczyna szukać uwagi gdzie indziej, Humbert zabiera ją w podróż po kraju...

It is definitely a book for people who are aware of their being and meaning. We really hope, that most of the readers will be young people, up to 30 years of age. People who fit into that demographic tend to be interested in the truth and are not afraid of walking along completly new paths, being aware of their existence and the biological life that is attached to it. It is a book for people who are not afraid of the unknown. Because only people lite those are not afraid of t...

10 wybranych krakowskich legend, od najstarszej o wawelskim smoku, przez Boże miłosierdzie, Lajkonika, i pozostałe, aż do najnowszej o czakramie wawelskim. Opowiedziane na nowo - dla odwiedzających miasto turystów - mogą stać się interesującą lekturą nie tylko dla dzieci i młodzieży. Koncepcja książki umożliwia korzystanie z niej jako nietypowego przewodnika po Krakowie ubarwiającego poznanie miasta. Interesująca szata graficzna oraz załączone plany stanowią o dodatkowej wart...