Genoveva is sixteen. She goes to a Catholic girls’ school and lives, as she puts it, in the Ass End of the World – a remote town in deep Latin America, where modernization arrives hand-in-hand with drug trafficking. Between a mother lost in delusional dreams and a father clinging to the ruins of long-faded Trotskyism, Genoveva narrates her world with a voice that’s raw, contradictory, fearless, and startlingly innocent.She doesn’t like what she sees. She doesn’t like what she touches. She ...

Madison is quiet, intelligent, and dependent on Oliver. He is narcissistic, selfish, and lives a dangerous life. Too dangerous for Madison. But when she is suddenly asked to pretend to be his girlfriend, she has no other choice... Bestselling author Ayla Dade writes a heartwarming friends-to-lovers romanceMadison's dream of studying law is coming true. But she has a problem: to keep up at NYU, she needs Ritalin. And the only one who can get it for her is Oliver. Afraid that this fa...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science – this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.In Fresh Dirt from the Grave , a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad...

A fast-paced and addictive thriller from the international bestselling author of Cut and The Shock.He thought he'd escaped his past. He was wrong . . .Jesse Berg is a successful paediatrician. Newly divorced, he spends his time caring for his young daughter, Isa. But Jesse has secrets in his past. Things he doesn't talk about.When Jesse's ex-wife is murdered and his daughter abducted, his life spirals out of control. At th...

The definitive biography of the last iconic fashion designer“It starts with me and it ends with me.”Karl Lagerfeld stylized himself into a living logo and a myth of the fashion world.Journalist Alfons Kaiser, who knew Lagerfeld personally for many years, here introduces listeners to the public and private life of the charismatic fashion designer. Kaiser explores the many eras of Lagerfeld’s life: the youthful outsider in the north German flatlands; ...