THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and twisted' JOJO MOYES 'Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH They say you can't choose your family. But you can kill them. Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister, serial killer... Grace has lost everything. And she will stop at nothing to get revenge. ------------------------------ 'Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis - even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her' PANDORA SYKES 'Deliciously addictive...brilliantly executed' i PAPER 'Addictive... Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years' EMMA GANNON 'A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media's obsession with murder' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'You'll be gripped... Grace's emotional detachment throughout will give you chills' Rated 5 stars by COSMOPOLITAN 'Hilarious and dark' ELLE 'Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is "selfcare" sharpen this debut novel' OBSERVER 'Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets' GRAZIA 'Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read' PRIMA 'A deliciously dark debut novel' RED 'One very entertaining read' WOMAN'S WAY How To Kill Your Family was number 1 in the Sunday Times paperback chart on 26/04/2022

It is raining non-stop over Paris. The Malegarde family - split between France, London, and the US - is reunited for the first time in years. When Paul, a famous yet withdrawn arborist, suffers a stroke in the middle of his 70th birthday celebrations, his son Linden is stuck in a city that is undergoing a stunning natural disaster. As the Seine bursts its banks and floods the streets, the family will have to fight to keep their unity as hidden fears and secrets also begin to rise. In this profound and intense novel of love and redemption, De Rosnay demonstrates her wealth of skills both as an incredible storyteller and also as a connoisseur of the human soul.

Eviscerated Panda volume four follows the band and their significant others through the end of their second year making music together. They play at the Edge Bar and Suzy has a tantrum of epic proportions. Phil and Suzy make up, Jez has dinner with a mystery woman and Nick and Jenni celebrate their engagement. The Pandas play in Camden with Horror Frog and Dick Trouble and the Viagras. Victor turns up in Reading, Paul has a chance meeting with an old band mate and Eviscerated Panda play in the home of metal with Nightshade Milkshake. Paul takes on a side project, much to Phil's disgust, and Victor enrols at the University of Reading. Ian meets his Mum, the Pandas play a Halloween gig and Victor completes the line-up of his new Reading based band called Deep Red Mistress. A ring is given to Cleo and the Pandas play with Dick Trouble and the Viagras in Witney. Jenni receives birthday flowers from two men. Paul plays gigs with a band other than Eviscerated Panda and Deep Red Mistress play their debut gig. Two of the Pandas attend the golf club dinner dance and the Pandas play in Coventry with Over-revved Engine. Christmas is celebrated and Phil wonders what the future holds. He's still searching for that elusive musical success...

An innocent game of internet poker leads James, an English writer and poet, to Mia; the successful President of her own American companies. As their transatlantic friendship develops, they embark upon a journey of a lifetime which takes them back to younger dreams they had long since abandoned. Against a backdrop of stunning locations incorporating Florida, Cornwall, Scotland and Lancashire, their story unfolds. As the sparks of passion ignite, love begins to blossom in deeper ways than either of them had ever encountered. Their journey begins to deepen and unfold, as passion, desire and their innermost feelings create a world that neither of them can resist or control. The thousands of miles between them cannot stem their desires and against overwhelming odds and life-threatening moments, they fight for the world they know is there. They both examine their hearts, minds and souls, in a bid to live their dreams.

"It's mid morning. Cool. Not many coffee bars open. I, the brave one, god of any telephone kiosk, walk down Dean Street, see the man of the day; raincoat, shoulders round, hair black, falling out; heavenly blue eyes cast down into his own hell. Bold as brass I cross the road stopping dead in front of him. He raises his eyes, so sadly that I love him for it." Leda is lost. Bouncing from job to job, from coffee bar to house party, he spends his days watching the hours pass and waiting for the night to arrive. Trysts in the rubble of a bombsite follow hours spent in bedsits with near strangers, as Leda is forced to find intimacy in unusual places. Semi-homeless and estranged from his given family, he relies on the support of his chosen one: a community of older gay men and divorced women who feed and clothe him, gently encouraging him to find a foothold in a society which excludes him at every turn. And then there is Daniel, a buttoned-up man of the Lord, for whom Leda nurses an unrequited obsession - one which sends him spiralling into self-destruction. With a foreword by Huw Lemmey, this newly discovered, never-before-published novel - which pre-dates the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 - is a portrait of lost a Soho, as well as an important document of queer, working-class life, from a voice long overlooked.

The chance discovery of artefacts and parchment in a disused cellar beneath a medieval swan pit propels the Morgan family into the epicentre of an unfolding drama. Paul Morgan falls out with his father, an Anglican priest, over his religious upbringing. He travels to New Zealand to find out why Uncle Oliver emigrated there and is ostracised by his family. Paul's close friend Hussain, a devout Muslim, is coincidently attending an Islamic "conference" on the Island. Paul meets Laura and falls in love. Forensic test results have been intercepted by the security services, causing consternation in the Christian Church and in the higher echelons of Government. Can the revelations be kept out of the public domain? Prime Minister Dick Benson fears a constitutional crisis. Who will prevail - the Church, the state, or the monarchy? Paul's aunt, the archivist involved in examining parchment found in the swan pit discovery, goes missing. Paul becomes uneasy about Hussain's motives and his interpretation of Islam. Why has his aunt disappeared? What is the family secret? Laura has become tense and distant - why?

THE de LAFITTE PROTOCOL is the first book of the saga trilogy. It is also the code used to conceal the planned brutal assassination of the ancient eponymous family. It is also the mystery thriller of the trilogy. Within the opening chapter you the reader experience, during the languid setting of a lawn meet at Chateau Lafitte, the dogged persistence of an ex-Mafia assassin as he lies in wait in their huge hunting forest. On a bitterly cold Saturday, the 28th of November 1999 he huddles on the top branch of the tallest tree in the forest for the exciting duration of the stag hunt. He finally gets Jacques, Le Comte de Lafitte in his Zeiss telescopic sights, and watches him kill the stag in the icy pond, half a mile away. The de Lafitte family, devout Christians who survived the French revolution and both World Wars, only suspect that they are still being undermined by the re-emergence of an old atheistic code of conduct. Which means that there is no code, other than what one can get away with! The author however does not want to lose faith with his reader and hints and subsequently reveals who is behind the terror, whilst still retaining most of the mystery for the participants of the action. Such as that of Sir Henry Steere, a former 'friend' of the family, now a dismissed ex-MI6 operator, who inherits the small New York Private Bank from his father, who had been given it, by his own devout Quaker family. They in turn had been granted it by a grateful de Lafitte family, in gratitude for trusted work over the centuries, after the de Lafitte family reorganized their world wide holdings, after the 2nd World War. Charles Russell-Lafitte, the young Oxford nephew of Uncle Jacques who also normally acted as his field master, is the first to have had a pre-monition of the assassination. But it is here in Oxford that the grotesque variant of Charles' earlier vision of his premonition of the assassination on Comte de Lafitte's life is paradoxically enacted on Charles himself. Would the most skilful surgeons in Oxford be able to save Dr.Charles, or would he be bedridden as a paraplegic for the rest of his life. As the significance of the de Lafitte family quickly becomes known to the security services, the Oxford Bulldog's call in MI5 who duly rope in MI6, who call in the CIA and Interpol. But it remains a mystery, until the further assassinations take place, again on the 28th November 2011 at a subsequent lawn meet at Chateau de Lafitte and at Eton College Chapel and the Wall game. The 'de Lafitte Protocol' assassinations continue apace without end interspersed around the busy lives of the de Lafitte family, amid the subsequent discovered drama of the survival of Charles' twin. The love stories hidden throughout will come to fruition after the end of the thrilling Kentucky fox hunt, which starts at the end of this thriller.

A “dryly witty” (The New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.

It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.

Then the hives that’ve plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules’s uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls’ mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules’s online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppy—comrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each other’s lives—to ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they’ll spend them together or apart.

As Tom Jeffson inserts the key into the lock of an empty house on Easter Saturday in 1922, he is completely unaware that his youngest daughter, eight year-old Daisy, is hiding there following a childish prank. Although Daisy is the innocent witness to her father's adulterous liaison that day, it is her older sister, Rose, who forever carries the burden of his deception. Sunlight on Broken Glass is a story of two sisters, united as they endure the consequences of their father's increasingly appalling behaviour. But, as the story reaches its climax and Tom is diagnosed with a chilling psychopathic disorder, can their love for each other withstand the strain? Based on a true story, Sunlight on Broken Glass is the first novel in the Jeffson Family Trilogy, an epic saga of love, loss, hopes, dreams and family loyalty.

Vir die eerste keer is vier van Deon Meyer se Afrikaanse filmdraaiboeke nou saam gebundel.

Jakhalsdans:
Die jong weduwee en onderwyseres Mara Malan wil keer dat die skooltjie op Loxton sy deure sluit. ’n Musiekkonsert kan uitkoms bring, maar Ruan Landman, die beroemde sanger wat hier woon en die ideale hoofkunstenaar sou wees, het ontaard in ’n stuurs kluisenaar.

Die laaste tango:
Ná hy die boosaardige reeksmoordenaar Basson aanrand, word werkverslaafde speurder Herkules de Wet na ’n klein dorpie gestuur om te gaan afkoel. Hier ontmoet hy vir Ella Winter, ’n mooi, passievolle vrou wat sterwend is aan kanker. Op die nag van hul laaste dans saam, maak Basson sy opwagting op die dorp.

Die ballade van Robbie de Wee:
Voorheen suksesvolle musiekvervaardiger Len van Jaarsveld het in volslae ellende verval. Sy ontdekking van die briljante rockster Robbie de Wee bied aan hom ’n tweede, lááste kans, maar net toe Len behoorlik op sy voete begin kom, dreig die dood van ’n jong meisie om alles weer in duie te laat stort.

Jagveld:
Die gewetenlose Bosman se bevele word áltyd deur sy manne uitgevoer, meedoënloos. Maar nou het Emma gesien wat hulle gedoen het . . . en word sy hier in die Groot-Karoo soos ’n dier gejag. Tog skuil daar ’n donkerte agter haar oë wat hulle nie verwag het nie . . .

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

When a new recruit to MI6 accidentally comes across an old photograph, she has no idea that it is about to change her world. Unknown to her, the photograph is evidence of a connection between a planned uprising in Eastern Europe and the secret society known as the Maddalena. Someone has decided she must be silenced before she can pass on the information she has uncovered and she is forced to run for her life, finding help in the most unexpected of places. Whilst she is pursued by the Mafia, an ambitious KGB Major in Belarus makes an alarming discovery. His subsequent investigation leads to the highest levels of government and the secret service as he begins to realise there is a plot by pro-Russian separatists to start a revolution. This exciting, fast-paced thriller takes the reader on a chase through Italy and Eastern Europe in a race against time. Secrets start to unfold and nobody knows who they can trust. No one is safe as the Maddalena tries to keep its existence and its operations hidden whatever the cost.

A roller coaster of emotions carries this story forward with its many facets of love. Romantic, obsessive and unrequited passions are just a few of the aspects explored through the characters using the park over one day.Can wrongs ever be redeemed? Dave the central character returning from the horrors of Afghanistan desperately believes that they can, otherwise his life means nothing. Can two star-crossed lovers survive today? In the twenty-first century world of bigotry and prejudice Romeo and Juliet's challenge is to prove their love can overcome all obstacles in their way. Can a child's dream become reality? Melanie is certain that despite her unique isolated view of family and people she can still follow her calling. Like the roots of the Sycamore where they separately meet, their lives unfold through connected links and strands. Stories of hope, despair and ambition unfold as the clock moves on relentlessly from sunrise to sunset.