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Homebound


’A work of joyous and serious invention’ KALIANE BRADLEY’Gripping... hauntingly beautiful’ MADELINE MILLER’A big, bold, ecstatic world – full of heart and wonder’ RUTH OZEKI* ?Guardian Book of the Day * New Scientist Best New Science Fiction 2026 *Six hundred years. Five interlocking lives. An immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home. It’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete. The game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew. Homebound is a coming-out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love. ? READERS ARE LOVING HOMEBOUND ?’ Beautiful and heartfelt... A masterpiece’ ? Reader Review’ So heart-achingly good’ ? Reader Review’Nobody should miss this immersive and vulnerable debut ’ ? Reader Review’Beautifully ambitious... drifts through time, place and genre with real confidence ’ ? Reader Review’I’ll be recommending this title to everyone’ Northwood Library’I really fell in love with the ambition and scope’ Portobello Books, Edinburgh’Reading it will change you, in both heart and mind’ Auntie’s Bookstore, Washington’If you liked Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, you are going to fall for this book, and fall HARD’ Crow & Co Books, Minnesota’For anyone who loved Cloud Cuckoo Land or Cloud Atlas’ An Unlikely Story, Massachusetts
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The Wonder of You


It's a big deal to kiss someone for the first time, especially if the whole world is watching. Emily Montgomery and Josh Sacco have two things in common: they have played the main characters in a hugely popular film series, Wonderwick Woods, since they were teenagers, and they cannot stand each other. Emily is a bookworm with movie star looks, famous for her never a hair out of place professionalism, she knows that she will have to fight to be taken seriously as an actress after coming of age as a beloved children's book character. She is always on time to set and always knows her lines. Josh is a Hollywood nepo baby, famous for being everyone's favourite bad boy, always having a new girl on his arm and being splashed across the tabloids. He's always late, always playing pranks, and constantly forgets his lines. As they head back to set for the latest movie, both know that there's pressure on them to deliver the biggest moment of the series yet, a kiss between their characters. But can you kiss someone convincingly when you've always hated them?
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Havisham


Jilted bride. Vengeful heart. Hopeless romantic. ‘Dazzling’ HEAT MAGAZINE ‘This is a novel of enormous élan’ THE TIMES *From the Observer Top Ten Debut novelist* Charlotte Havisham has a secret. She's been underestimated for too long: by her former fiancé, Compeyson; by her family; and by society. But now her true heart's desire is within reach for the first time. And she will stop at nothing to get it. This is the story of Miss Havisham as you've never heard it before. And she will exceed all expectations. A thrilling and immersive historical novel, Havisham is a queer feminist reimagining in which Dickens' most infamous female character tells her side of the story at last. PRAISE FOR HAVISHAM ‘Deftly woven and alive with rage’ KAT DUNN ‘I was completely engrossed’ STACEY THOMAS ‘A fearless historical fiction writer’ EMMA HINDS ‘Will make you weep before punching the air’ LOUISE HARE ‘Original, bold and fierce’ HESTER MUSSON ‘This is Havisham as she has never been seen’ HANNAH KANER ‘A glorious feminist reimagining’ NAOMI KELSEY ‘Left me breathless’ MARY CHAMBERLAIN ‘Spectacularly daring’ ANNA CAIG ‘I was completely hooked’ AMÉLIE SKODA ‘A triumphant mix of reimagined classic and bold, ambitious storytelling’ LIANNE DILLSWORTH ‘Shouting-at-the-page levels of investable’ CHARLOTTE PARADISE ‘Wonderfully immersive and deeply satisfying’ LUCY BARKER 'Compelling’ SCOTTISH FIELD
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Jesus' Son


A young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, spirals through these interlinked stories of grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. In the course of his adventures, he meets an assortment of people, who seem as alienated and confused as he; sinners, misfits, the lost, the damned, the desperate and the forgotten. Out of their bleak, seemingly random lives, Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh and devastating beauty.
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A Working Mother


A Working Mother is a perfectly crafted novel that will enthral, entertain and surprise in equal measure. Our unreliable narrator, Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children and feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and bemoans his lot in life, Betty flirts with their best friend Brendan and tries to avoid the roving hands of her new employer. Soon, Betty plots her escape. Agnes Owens' sharp wit, dark humour and lean prose are expertly displayed in one of her finest achievements. 'Agnes Owens was an absolutely brilliant novelist' – Kirstin Innes'A terrific writer' – Liz Lochhead'Her black humour and piercing observation bear comparison with the work of Muriel Spark' – GuardianPublished to celebrate Agnes Owens' centenary year in 2026.
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12,49 €

Benbecula


'It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.' Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionOn 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the island of Benbecula, murdered his father, mother and aunt. At trial in Inverness he was found to be criminally insane and confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department of Perth Prison. Some years later, Angus’s older brother Malcolm recounts the events leading up to the murders while trying to keep a grip on his own sanity. Malcolm is living in isolation, ostracised by the community and haunted by this gruesome episode in his past. From Graeme Macrae Burnet, the Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project, comes a beguiling psychological novel set on a remote Scottish island. Based on a true story and drawing on the documentary evidence of the time, Burnet constructs a gripping narrative about madness, murder and the uncertain nature of the self. Longlisted for the Highland Book PrizeLonglisted for the CWA Historical Dagger'Dark, intense and utterly compelling' – Laura Wilson, The Guardian
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12,49 €

Blood Bound


The deadly competition begins in 2026's hottest fantasy romance debut 'A must read' Closer 'A standout debut' Fabulous 'It has all you want from the fantasy genre…the wait for Book 2 starts right here' Heat 'Full of rich worldbuilding, dual perspectives and shocking twists' Women's Own 'A blistering romantasy debut' My Weekly 'Everything is at stake in this gripping fantasy tale' Bella You cannot forfeit. You cannot run. You duel or you die. Astrid has always known she is destined to die. She is the last Nachstern witch and heir to the Queendom of Arturea, cursed to duel her rival from the Kingdom of Vatra for the source of all magic. She only has her familiar, her potions and her wits to aid her; her opponent, Prince Zryan, has a massive Hel-damned dragon. She's going to die, and the chance to cure the Blight ravaging her queendom will die with her. Deep in dragon country, blade-juggler Skylar is searching for her best friend, who she fears has been taken in the king's conscription of those with Blooded powers. She despises the royals, but the path to find him may just take her closer to them – and the witches – than she would like… As the duel looms, Skylar and Astrid's fates intertwine, forcing them to choose between loyalty and survival in a world where every decision could lead to ruin. Set against a once-in-a-generation duel to the death between witches and dragons, Blood Bound is an epic romantic fantasy that will grab hold of your heart and leave you breathless.
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26,99 €

These Summer Storms


Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family's name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family's private island, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his widow and their grown children a final challenge - an inheritance game designed to humiliate, devastate and unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance. One week on Storm Island is an impossible task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with dysfunctional chaos: Her older sister's secret love affair. Her brother's incessant mansplaining. Her sister-in-law's unapologetic greed. Her younger sister's obsession with 'vibes'. Her mother's penchant for stirring up competition between her children. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father's enigmatic, unfairly good-looking, second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the week unscathed. A story about the transformative power of grief, love and family, this luscious novel is at once deliciously clever and surprisingly tender, exploring past secrets, present truths and futures forged in the wake of wild summer storms.
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Tangled Roots


'A winding and wonderful epic story about the earth we inherit' Västerbottens-Kuriren'An unrivalled storyteller' L'AlsaceAn old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen...Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone. But through war, famine and heartbreak, what endures is the wild, and the certainty that wherever we put down roots, the land will grow roots in us too.
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17,99 €

Marvel Select: Punisher: In The Blood


Frank Castle is back. Back for revenge. Back in New York and back to cleaning its street of all the worst criminals. The Punisher's mission resumes as he partakes in a bloody crusade and notches up one of the highest body counts in Punisher history. Cyber sensei Henry Russo, son of Jigsaw, returns, keeping Frank proficient with an eye in the sky. Plus, two of Frank's most sadistic enemies return, united in a new vindictive plot: Enter the Jigsaw Brothers! Collecting: PUNISHER: IN THE BLOOD (2010) #1-5.
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The Appointment


'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers; and to Paul, her lover and the one person she can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street.And what she discovers there suddenly puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.
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Parallel Lines


A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. ‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m very pleased we have…’Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia’s tenuous relationship with her biological mother. Olivia, meanwhile, is producing a radio series on natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life. Over a year, their fates collide and each of their destinies is revealed in a marvellous new light. ‘A tale of art and family…brimming with wordplay’ Financial Times‘Sentences that whoosh past like arrows… St Aubyn’s talents are mighty’ New York Times‘I love Edward St Aubyn’ Donna Tartt
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Serpent's Tongue (Ikmen Mystery 28)


The twenty-eighth mystery featuring Çetin Ikmen and Mehmet Süleyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective, available to watch on BBC iPlayer. When two women are found dead in Istanbul - one bitten by a snake in the slum quarter of Kustepe, the other killed by a suspected terror attack in Tesvikiye - Inspector Mehmet Süleyman and his team cannot see an obvious connection between the two cases. Ex-inspector Çetin Ikmen isn't so sure. In Kustepe, helping a friend place a collection of dazzling sculptures at one of the city's art galleries, Ikmen discovers that one of the sculptures bears a startling resemblance to the Kustepe victim. Did the deceased artist know her and, if so, in what capacity? And what, if anything, does the death of a devout Muslim woman in Tesvikiye have to do with an alleged terror plot aimed at undermining the security of the cit? üleyman and Ikmen soon discover there is more to this situation than meets the eye and they must uncover the truth in order to prevent more bloodshed . . . Praise for Barbara Nadel's Ikmen mysteries:'Complex and beguiling: a Turkish delight' Mick Herron'Ikmen is one of modern crime fiction's true heroes, complex yet likeable, and the city he inhabits - Istanbul - is just as fascinating' The Times'Barbara Nadel's distinctive Istanbul-set Inspector Ikmen thrillers combine brightly coloured scene setting with deliciously tortuous plots' Guardian
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29,49 €

The Queen's Coronation


By command of the Queen, you are hereby directed to be present at . . . There’s a lot to get done ahead of the queen’s coronation – and even more so when your livelihood is at stake. Lucy Jones is Junior Wardrobe Assistant to the queen, but dreams of being a singer. Caroline Brimstone loves her role as the queen’s Assistant Dresser, but behind closed doors fights for a better life for herself and her daughter. Meanwhile, Miranda Miller, an undercover journalist in the Coronation Office’s planning committee, needs an inside scoop to keep her job – the only thing she has left. They are all running away from their own demons but, in order to succeed, they must shed their feelings of shame, trust themselves and reclaim their lives. As Queen Elizabeth II takes the throne, will these three women also be able to take their rightful places in the worl? he Queen's Coronation is an unforgettable tale of female resilience, friendship and having the courage to seize your future. Praise for Jennifer Ryan ‘An enchanting hug of a novel’ – Cathy Kelly‘A deliciously warm and heart-rending tale’ – Martha Hall Kelly‘The writing glows with emotional intelligence’ – Daily Mail
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The Turing Protocol


Humanity's best kept secret may be its best hope for survival. In the midst of World War Two, Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing finds himself on the brink of a discovery that will change the world: a way to send a message back into the recent past. But when his invention successfully averts disaster on D-Day, the danger it poses in the wrong hands becomes terrifyingly clear. As Turing's enemies close in, only one decision is possible: Nautilus must be kept hidden from the world, safe in the care of the only person he can trust. Seventy-five years later, Annabelle McIntosh's life is upended when she learns she will become the latest custodian of the greatest secret of the modern age - Turing's Nautilus machine. Following in her family's footsteps, and bound by Turing's strict principles governing the use of his creation, Annabelle is soon faced with the same impossible choices. Nautilus has the power to prevent catastrophe, but the wrong decision could have devastating consequences. When the stakes are at their highest, will using the machine save the world - or destroy it?
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12,99 €

The Underdog


THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING FOOD WRITER 'IRRESISTIBLY FUNNY, SEXY AND CHARMING' AMY KEY 'A JOY TO READ' RUKMINI IYER 'THE FUNNY SLOW-BURN LOVE STORY YOU NEED TO START SUMMER PROPERLY' RED Sometimes life doesn't follow a recipe… Katy is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fiancé and in a (not-unrelated) moment of madness, abandoned a Solid, Decently Paid Career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. But, after a year of expensive cookery school and months in Michelin-star kitchens blow-drying edible ferns for free, she finds herself making sandwiches (heritage duck egg and black garlic mayonnaise on sourdough, admittedly, but sandwiches all the same) in a north London café and stuck in an ill-advised situationship with a twentysomething who thinks he’s his generation's answer to Marco Pierre White. Then, a gorgeous doctor strolls in and orders an espresso. Katy is briefly charmed… until she sees the scruffy mutt at his feet. Katy hates dogs — and Dr Dipesh never goes anywhere without Alan. Can she overlook this major red flag? Will she ever convince her mother she’s not having a midlife crisis? And, when a drunken mishap involving a restaurant critic turns Katy’s life upside down, will she ever see Dip, Alan or the inside of a kitchen again?
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The Serial Killer Support Network


‘A deliciously dark, twisty turny thriller with characters who leap off the page’ John MarrsSee what readers are saying about The Serial Killer Support Group‘Has the reader on the edge of their seat screaming for justice and delivers a well-planned mid-point twist’ AJ Willis????? ''Fast paced, gory, and dare I say empowering!''????? ''It''s a thrilling novel of friendship, loyalty, rediscovery of self and murder''????? ''The novel is frightening and hopeful all at once as we see the underbelly of society and what good people will do in the face of adversity!''????? ''Vigilante justice and moral support, a one stop shop! Domestic violence victims find a bit more than they thought in the support group that has become a lifeline, in many ways. You will root for them, feel for them, and cheer them!''????? ''With twists galore, this book gets better with the turn of each page''????? ''It had everything you could want in a thriller book, plenty of suspense, excellent characterisation and a brilliant brunch of female leads! … This book touched every possible emotion and really pulled at my heart strings! Can’t recommend enough! This was an easy 5 stars!''
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Sharpe’s Storm


If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe … The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter shows no mercy. Amidst brutal conditions, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself saddled with an unexpected burden: Rear-Admiral Sir Joel Chase, dispatched by the Admiralty with sealed orders, unshakable confidence, and a frankly terrifying enthusiasm for combat. Sharpe’s mission from Wellington is clear, yet anything but simple: keep Sir Joel alive. Sir Joel could hold the key to defeating Napoleon once and for all. But to pull off his audacious plan, he needs someone who knows how to fight dirty, think fast, and survive the impossible. He needs Sharpe …
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15,99 €

Sleep


A family secret. A new love. The chance to start again. Margaret's childhood is one of Saturday morning pancakes and sunlit swimming pools behind white picket fences. Then, one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret is newly divorced with two young daughters of her own. She's starting over while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But, returning to the family home at her mother's beckoning, she finds herself swept up in the unspoken truth of that long ago summer. She must now reckon with what binds the past to the present, one generation to the next, and safety to the freedom we most desire. A must-read novel of the summer in Sunday Times Style, Elle and Good Housekeeping.
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Beletria je často nazývaná aj krásnou, alebo umeleckou literatúrou. Toto označenie pochádza z francúzskeho názvu belles lettres (krásna literatúra)Výrazom beletria sa súhrnne označujú umelecké prozaické diela. K najznámejším beletristickým žánrom patrí poviedka, novela, román, črta či umelecká reportáž.

Romány, poviedky a novely ponúkajú pútavé príbehy s výraznými postavami a atmosférou. Divadelné hry zase slúžia ako materiál pre divadelné predstavenia a prinášajú konverzácie, dramatické situácie a komediálne alebo tragické prvky.

Beletria je neoddeliteľnou súčasťou literatúry, ktorá obohacuje naše vnímanie sveta a poskytuje nám príležitosť prežívať rôznorodé príbehy a vstúpiť do rôznych svetov. Bez ohľadu na to, či preferujete dobrodružstvo, romantiku alebo reflexiu, beletria vám umožní objaviť nové myšlienky, inšpirácie a zábavu.

Hľadáte knižných hrdinov, ktorí vás zavedú do sveta romantiky, histórie, sci-fi či fantasy? Prinášame vám ten najlepší výber skutočných príbehov, románov, detektívok, noviel a poviedok. K úspešným autorom beletrie patria Jozef KarikaDominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková EvitaTáňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King