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All Olivia wanted was one last miserable Christmas with her husband’s awful family before moving to Australia. She didn’t expect a murder. Or another. Or another. Now the snow has cut them off and she’s stuck in a crumbling country house, with ten increasingly deranged relatives and the rising suspicion that someone is picking them off one by one. As the bodies pile up and the festive façade starts to crack, Olivia must survive the season, clear her name and uncover the killer – Or, at the very least, get through lunch without anyone else choking on a sprout.

Stinker ist kein Pups. NEIN, Stinker ist eine kleine Katze und diese Katze erobert das Herz der Menschen im Sturm. Sie wollen wissen, was ihr liebstes Haustier so denkt? Die abenteuerlichen Geschichten der schwarz-weißen Katze kommen sicherlich vielen Katzenbesitzern bekannt vor. Die tierbegeisterte Autorin, die nebenbei auch als Tierverhaltensberaterin tätig ist, hat der Katze Stinker und ihren Tatzenfreunden Stimmen verliehen, die die Tiere ganz besonders liebenswert machen.

Ein Dorf in Nordsachsen spielt noch einmal DDR, für einen Monat und mit allen Risiken und Nebenwirkungen. Eine satirische Farce gegen unkritische Ostalgie, wie sie aktueller kaum sein könnte. Deutschland im Jahr 2016. Das Dortmunder Ehepaar Beate und Peter Sendler, beide Mitte fünfzig (sie: frustrierte Erzieherin, er: erfolgloser Dokumentarfilmer), zieht ins sächsische Dorf Maulberg und erlebt dort nicht nur eine friedliche Idylle des Miteinanders, sondern auch die Sehnsucht vieler Bewohner nach der "guten alten" DDR.

When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of “superior sensibility” dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing. Responding to an obscure sense of emergency in the call, Ned, our hero, flies in from San Francisco (where he is the main organizer of a march against the impending Iraq war), pursued instantly by his furious wife, Nina: they’re at a critical point in their attempt to get Nina pregnant, and she’s ovulating!

From the author of My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists.

World famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself. Fletch’s publisher, Merriweather Press, has invited six authors to Fletch’s private island in Scotland. Authors whose books have never had the big marketing budgets or publicity opportunities. In other words, midlist. And they’re about to be presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Life can’t go on like this – can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection. Discontent is an audacious, darkly funny novel and perfect summer read about a young woman in Madrid whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat On the surface, Marisa’s life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she’s risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.

Eliot Weiner – snob, shameless opportunist, Morris dancing-obsessive – is on a mission. He has got wind of a trunk of bawdy love letters by Warren Harding, ‘the shallowest President in history’, now guarded by his octogenarian mistress on her crumbling Hollywood Hills estate. They could reignite his failing academic career – and there’s no depth to which he won’t stoop, no preposterous scheme he won’t undertake, to get at them.

Phil Owen has it all figured out. Or rather his character in his weekly role-playing game does. In real life? Not so much. Inviting Amy Evans to join their group’s campaign seemed like the kind thing to do when his best friend’s younger sister returned home broken hearted six months ago, but all it’s done is give her another dimension in which to tempt him. Yet when an unwelcome character from Amy’s past turns up in her present, it’s Phil’s spell level that saves the day. His prize? A three-month quest as Amy’s fake boyfriend, and a chance to turn fantasy into reality…

On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.

Zofia's son, Janek, has vanished without a trace. Leaving behind her native Warsaw, she arrives in London, determined to uncover the truth - and she's certain that a celebrated writer called Steve holds the key to Janek's disappearance. To fund her DIY investigation, Zofia takes on a string of cleaning jobs - a professional trajectory she finds very much beneath her. Armed with little more than her stubborn resolve and a second-hand detective manual, Zofia gathers evidence.

Grundgütiger! Kriminalkommissar Klaus Neher und Buchhändler Robert Mondrian trauen ihren Augen nicht, als sie den Mühlenbetreiber Max Moritz erschlagen und kopfüber im historischen Mahlwerk stecken sehen – als wäre es ein besonders böser Streich. Doch wer hat diesen schurkischen Coup geplant? Die wachsame Nachbarin Witwe Klara Boldt ist für ihr scharfes Auge und noch schärferes Gedächtnis bekannt. Akribisch beobachtet sie, was auf dem Weg zur Mühle vor sich geht. Die Liste der Verdächtigen ist lang – denn in dieser Geschichte könnte jeder ein mörderischer Lausbub sein.

Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flatmate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, that calmly sabotages her careful plans, her stable routine—and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach . . .

Timothy ‘Timbo’ Smith, part-time healer and self-styled security analyst, travels down the dark canyons of global capitalism, from short-selling scams in the City to the depleted rainforests of Brazil. His accomplices in this irresistible safari through the late modern world are two reformed alcoholics, the lovely and brilliant Lee ‘Lethal’ Thorold, and her husband Professor Luke Deverill, lecherous Oxford philosopher and caustic computer wizard.

Meet single mum Samantha, entrepreneur Rhea, and first-time mother Tahlie, all from different walks of life, brought together by their weekly mum and baby group in the town of Hickory Creek. Here they all find support—and a moment's peace—in the haze of raising their new-borns. But when the group is cancelled due to a lack of funds, it looks like the invaluable support they received will be no more.

In einer Hütte findet Heffs Team Schutz vor den Schrecken des Waldes – doch leider auch neue Schrecken! Denn hier finden sie die Aufzeichnungen einer Okkultistin über die Machenschaften eines Hexenzirkels in genau dieser Gegend. Einen Zirkel, der seine Opfer in Kuckucksuhren zu bannen pflegt!

Sharyn Tregonning wanted a holiday somewhere glamorous for her 60th birthday. So when her husband Barry surprises her with a caravan trip from Adelaide to Broome, she is furious—and bitterly disappointed. Even worse, Barry's annoying friend Ray, and Ray's reclusive frumpy sister Kathleen are coming along.

James Norval has built a successful career crafting the thrilling adventures of his fictional hero, Hunter Chase, a character admired by readers and movie-goers worldwide. But despite his fame and fortune, Norval has always harboured a secret dream of living the life he only writes about—a life as a field operative for CSIS, Canada's Security Intelligence Service. In fact, nearly thirty years earlier, he washed out of the CSIS recruitment program, and it's haunted him ever since.

Sharyn Tregonning wanted a holiday somewhere glamorous for her 60th birthday. So when her husband Barry surprises her with a caravan trip from Adelaide to Broome, she is furious—and bitterly disappointed. Even worse, Barry's annoying friend Ray, and Ray's reclusive frumpy sister Kathleen are coming along. It's true that Kathleen Allenby has become a recluse. As the end-of-life carer for three family members (and at war with her mean neighbours) she has become anxious. She doesn't expect this trip to offer her much.