Dr. Marissa Blumenthal's dream of becoming pregnant has turned into an obsession. A successful pediatrician, she will try any scientific method available to conceive. Until the horrible secrets of an urban clinic erupt in a nightmare of staggering proportions. 'Vintage Cook ...nonstop action!' Kirkus Reviews
"Pretty sure I'm a sociopath. I'm not ashamed of it. In fact, it's something I quite like." Yellowface meets You - a gripping and addictive psychological thriller about toxic friendship and dark academia. ‘A dark triumph with jaw-dropping twists’ Heather Darwent, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Things We Do To Our Friends Jane is unhappy. She’s a struggling writer trapped in an underwhelming marriage...
A The Times best crime books of 2021 pick________________________What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Lapland?Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they are cause for gossip among thei...
The quest for meaning and relationship in an alienated urban existence leads to a world beyond the mundane in this humorous, absorbing story. Fat and over forty, Ethne is not happy. In the flat above, Derek, thin and over forty, is frightened. When Mortimer comes into their lives with panache and pathos, he spins fantasies for them through which they discover surprising strengths. A variety of stressful human problems—unrequited love, sinister religions, astral travel, dog training, and homophob...
A young philosopher, fascinated by Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle, grapples with a world scarred by the legacies of war. In this lyrical novel, a young, disenchanted philosopher reckons with the evil at work in the contemporary world by reimagining the life of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning German physicist infamous for two reasons: revolutionizing quantum mechanics with his “uncertainty principle” at the tender age of twenty-three, and participating in Nazi efforts to bu...
A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
