'This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it'

KHALED HOSSEINI

'Tender and raw and funny, it's a rattling good read'

COLUM MCCANN

'A wildly charming debut - propulsive, funny, and profound'

ELIF BATUMAN

Tbilisi's littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation calls for someone with a plan. I didn't even bring toothpaste.

Saba is just a child when he flees his h...

Sometimes, where people are familiar together, it happens that someone joins in, causing short circuits and patterns get disrupted.

It started with the garden.

An estate/hotel was looking for a gardener (m/f).

A man with an aura of wildness came.

A day later there was a young woman at the door, with all the required qualifications and her autistic toddler.

There was the owner’s secret: a letter from the bank.

There was pressure to participate in an absurd sewage project. Absurd? Not if you ...

An electric, beguiling contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.

Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they...

Henri de Montpensier is a perfectly normal gay teenager living in the French city of Toulouse.

After a fight broke out between his boyfriend Timothée and his older brother George,

Henri's life changes for good.

He will now have to navigate carefully between a jealous boyfriend and a possessive older brother.

Henri's relation with his brother George takes a sharp turn however when he realizes

that his feelings are not as simple as it looks.

My name is Leilac Leamas, although those who truly knew me understood that even that identity was just a mask, a façade behind which lurked a more complex figure. By trade, I was a corporate consultant, operating at the intersections where commerce, politics, and influence coalesced. But beneath the surface of that seemingly innocuous professional label, I was an operative. My currency was the clandestine information that could either build empires or bring them tumbling down.

As I lowered m...