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"Szeretni a legnagyobb teher mind közül. A legsúlyosabb. (...) Azok a dolgok adnak hozzá a legtöbbet az életünkhöz, amelyeket a leginkább szeretnénk letenni, amelyeket a legnehezebb cipelni, elviselni. Néha leveszik rólunk a terheinket. Néha mi menekülünk el előlük. Előfordul, hogy jó érzés megszabadulni tőlük. Megkönnyebbülünk. De nem kell sok idő, hogy rájöjjünk, a legtöbb dolog, amit teherként élünk meg, súlyt ad az életünknek, megvilágítja, kik is vagyunk. És abban a pillanatban, amikor elveszítjük őket... elveszítünk mindent."

A Homokból és hamuból szerzőjének új könyve

1938 - Néhány évvel vagyunk a szesztilalom és a nagy gazdasági világválság után. Az amerikai nagyvárosokban, így Clevelandben is emberek százezrei szegényedtek el. A nincstelenek között ráadásul brutális sorozatgyilkos szedi áldozatait. A város biztonságáért felelős Eliot Ness egykori szövetségi ügynök nem jut előrébb a nyomozással, így megkeresi régi barátját, Michael Malone-t, hogy segítsen kézre keríteni a tettest. Néhány évvel azelőtt Al Caponét is sikerült rács mögé juttatniuk, így bízik benne, hogy ezúttal is elkapják a tettest.
Malone szobát bérel Clevelandben, és beleveti magát a munkába, ám az adatgyűjtés és a jelentések elemzése nem sok eredménnyel kecsegtetnek. A kilátástalan helyzetben azonban nem várt helyről érkezik segítség: Malone rájön, hogy a fiatal varrónőnek, akitől a szobát bérli, különleges képessége van. Dani Flanagan egyfajta hatodik érzék, különleges intuíció birtokosa: a ruhadarabok, amelyeket megérint, "beszélnek" hozzá, fontos információkat mesélnek számára egykori viselőjükről.
Vajon ez segíthet a gyilkossági ügy megoldásában? Dani és Malone sötét titkokkal szembesülnek, és versenyt futnak az idővel, hogy megtalálják a Kingsbury Run őrült Mészárosát, mielőtt ők lesznek a következő áldozatok...
Amy Harmon kötete egyszerre izgalmas detektívregény és romantikus történet, amelyben végig izgulhatunk a szereplők sikeréért és azért, hogy ne csak az elkövető kilétére derüljön fény, de Dani és Malone is egymásra találjanak.

"Az a kérdés, hajlandó vagy-e lemenni az őseidért a kútba, vagy sem, és kibírod-e, amit felhozol" - írja a könyvben Térey János. A halála előtti években ezen a kéziraton dolgozott, közölt is belőle néhány fejezetet Egy cívis vallomásai alcímmel, azt azonban senki nem sejtette, hogy terjedelmes részével elkészült. A Boldogh-ház, Kétmalom utca című memoárt befejezni már nem tudta, de a tervezett mű egész struktúráját kidolgozta.
Az emlékiratban az író debreceni gyermekkorának és ifjúságának majdnem két évtizedét beszéli el. A meghatározó családi kötelékekről, a család eredetének kutatásáról, a szülőváros kulturális és történeti hagyományairól mint a személyiségét, a nevelődését formáló együttes hatásokról számol be ez a lezáratlanságában is sokrétű epizódokban kidolgozott vallomásfüzér. Az emlékirat fent idézett mondata arról tanúskodik, hogy nem csupán a szemérmesség, az érzelmességtől erősen ódzkodó alkat, de a feltárandó-feltárulkozó múlt, a távoli ősök elképzelt-kutatott élete és az örökölt-átélt traumák is nehezítették a szerző számára ezt a soha el nem odázott munkát, amely a Térey-hagyaték végességében "egy cívis vallomásai"-ként elénk tárul.
2020. szeptember 14-én lenne ötvenéves Térey János, erre az alkalomra jelent meg ez a hátrahagyott memoár.

"Egész életem küzdelem azért, hogy ne maradjon félbe minden. Amit nem írok le, az elvész. Mindig úgy érzem, hogy valamit tennem kell, állandó elégedetlenség és kielégítetlenség kínoz, s tetézi mindezt az érzés, hogy nem kapom meg az élettől azt, amit esetleg meg tudnék kapni. Hatalmas vágy kínoz az elismerés iránt, s az a rögeszme mérgez, hogy mindenért meg kell küzdenem, ami másoknak eleve megadatik. S hogy mindez a gyermekkori szenvedésből és stresszből ered. Majdnem teljesen ez vagyok én. Mások maximalizmusnak hívnák."

Forgetting is terrifying. Remembering is worse...
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning... they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love... every memory has vanished.


Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be... the more they question why they were ever together to begin with.


Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.



The Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives for a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.




Praise for Never Never:

Gripping' Bella


'Compelling page-turner from a great writing duo' My Weekly


'A glorious thriller - you'll be asking for more!' Chat


'A tortuous romance mystery that will keep you guessing' Sunday Post



Readers love Never Never...



'Incredible chemistry between the characters... will keep you glued to the pages'


'Thought provoking, exciting, original, and so romantic'


'Kept me on the edge of my seat'


'Never once did it disappoint'


'Didn't want it to end!'


'Such a good read'


'Couldn't put it down!'


'Refreshingly different... read it in a day'


'Such a captivating concept and plot'

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook.



As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.

Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, 'The Copper Beeches', they had become the mainstay of the magazine. They included such classic tales as 'The Five Orange Pips' and 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', and were gathered together in a collection known as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, representing some of the finest detective stories ever written.

*The New York Times and USA Today bestseller!*



'I LOVED this book! Funny, hopeful and dreamy' Ali Hazelwood



'The perfect rom-com, especially if you like your book editors as sexy as Benji Andor'
Red



'Smart, quick, delicious' Emma Straub


'An absolute delight' Christina Lauren


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Florence Day is a ghost-writer with one big problem. She's supposed to be penning swoon-worthy novels for a famous romance author but, after a bad break-up, Florence no longer believes in love. And when her strict (but undeniably hot) new editor, Benji Andor, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye.


Although when tragedy strikes and Florence has to head home, the last thing she expects to see is a ghost at her front door. Not just any ghost, however, but the stern form of her still very hot - yet now unquestionably dead - new editor.


As sparks start to fly between them, Florence tells herself she can't be falling for a ghost - even an infuriatingly sexy one. But can Benji help Florence to realise love isn't dead, after all?



If you fell in love with Beach Read, The Love Hypothesis and The Hating Game, this laugh-out-loud romance packed with sizzling chemistry will give you all the feels!



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Readers LOVE The Dead Romantics:


'Fresh, fun, thoroughly modern... truly a rom-com to die for!' Rachel Hawkins


'Made me fall in love, broke my heart then reassembled it, and left me swooning. Romantic, hilarious, heart-warming' Gwenda Bond



'A refreshing rom-com about love, loss, and hope... the sparkling dialogue makes the characters come alive'
Publishers Weekly



'This book made me sob, wow.It made me feel so many feelings... Please prepare to have nonstop tears running down your face.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'This book destroyed my life but in a hot way... I haven't cried this much because of a book in probably two years.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'Adorably romantic and an absolute pleasure to read.' Netgalley, 5 stars


'ALL THE STARS! A delight to read.' Netgalley, 5 stars


This book was EVERYTHING.' Netgalley, 5 stars

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.






Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.


Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.

"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.

Chosen as one of the 'best new book releases' by COSMOPOLITAN




A 'best summer read' by ELLE MAGAZINE





When you look at a woman, who do you see?




"Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, too hidden, too much, not enough."



A wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals; a motorway service station is the site of explosive violence, but also strange bonds; a trip home forces a reminder of a life-changing, lost friendship; a woman confronts her own infidelity; an artist celebrates a life spent in observation.


This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another, and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears, and joys. With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women - and how women are always watching back.

The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller
An Observer Best Debut of the Year
'Intoxicating ... heralds a really good author to watch' The Times
'Hilarious and profound' Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love
'Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel
'Monica Heisey is a genius' Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be Cheerful

One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt's Creek and Workin' Moms screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.




I feel like when you get a divorce everyone's wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you.



Maggie's marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she's fine - she's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's alone for the first time in her life, can't afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere . . . but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcee (TM).


Soon she's taking up 'sadness hobbies' and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy. As Maggie throws herself headlong into the chaos of her first year of divorce, she finds herself questioning everything, including: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? How many Night Burgers until I'm happy?


Laugh-out-loud funny, razor sharp and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is an irresistible debut novel about the uncertainties of modern love, friendship and happiness from a stunning new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.



'Hilarious, heart-warming, wise' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train




'Monica Heisey makes me laugh hard and often' Rob Delaney




'A Sex and The City for social media-obsessed millennials ... Irresistible' Metro




'Wry, modern, self-deprecating' Independent

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths.






This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.

' ... once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.'.

Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, 'The Empty House', Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve and a challenging set of adversaries to defeat. The potent mixture includes murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms and robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruellest villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed.

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother-and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail-just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.