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.

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From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War—and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old Con...

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.

A child runs away from the funeral of her mother. A father she does not know.

A lonely man brings her food and they become friends.

She personifies an inheritance more fatal than the incriminating information her late mother hid somewhere. A foreign secret service is on her trail.

What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling.

Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by.

A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something...

In pursuit of color, fire, and the unknown.

Ophelia abandons her home in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her across the globe. Led by strange connections and coincidences, she sets out on a solo trip to Lanzarote, travels to Arizona and California, and finally settles on the island of Bali, where she grapples with heartbreak and rebels against life. Ophelia senses that life could easily flip upside down. Where is the edge of it? How far is she allowed to go? V...