**A page-turning Brazilian debut thriller about a missing model living a double life as a sex worker, and the sister whose frantic search uncovers more secrets and suspectsA punchy thriller with a fiery feminist perspective, perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski**A furiously contemporary and vibrant thriller that crackles with danger — this gripping and utterly addictive new feminist thriller will hook you from the first page and keep you up all night.Lucinda has lived...

Casey tells the harrowing story of Connor, an eight year old boy from a broken home who comes to stay with her family.It’s a Saturday morning when Casey and Mike are asked to take in eight year old Connor – an emergency placement, just for a couple of days, following a violent incident at his now former care home. And Casey’s instinct, as ever, is to say yes. With long term foster son Tyler off to football, and no particular plans for the weekend, even the fact that Connor arrives ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Manhey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.OK. A lot of the stuff we said on the back of the last book was NOT TRUE. We now admit that The Bad Guys is WEIRD. We a...

A tightly plotted mystery novel set in contemporary Argentina and recently made into a film (“Betibu”, directed by Miguel Cohan) acclaimed at the 2014 London Film Festival.The author has won the Clarin Prize and is South America’s bestselling crime novelist (selling over 250,000 copies per title). She is translated in French, Italian and German.A novelist and ex-journalist investigates a series of deaths with the help of the newspaper’s recen...

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson shares the shocking true story of Tyler, an abused eleven-year-old who, after stabbing his step-mother, had nowhere else to go.Knowing a little of Tyler’s past – his biological mother, a heroin addict, died of an overdose when he was three – Casey feels bound to do her best for him. It isn’t easy; Tyler continuously lashes out, even trying to attack Casey herself. Investigation into his earlier childhood reveals why: forced to watch ...

CHRISTIAN SUSPENSE SERIESWill a Good Samaritan act gone wrong end his journey to his dreams?Poor and feeling trapped living in the hood, Roberto had always dreamed of being an artist who was not starving but his family's situation made anything beyond having a roof over his head and food on the table impossible to reach for.When he helps a stranger who connects him with opportunities for growth, and unknown persons begin defacing pricey artwork at t...

What happens when you turn thirty and still don't know what you want to be when you grow up? In this witty and sharply observed portrait of a generation, lost thirtysomethings grapple with, and avoid, the responsibilities of adulthoodOn the morning after celebrating her thirtieth birthday in Barcelona, a journalist wakes up to a hangover—and a magician in her bed—and wonders if she's too old to be living as though she was still twenty years old. Her artist friend, ...

Goosebumps is a collection of 13 short stories guaranteed to have you wetting yourself in fear just before bedtime.

From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same—not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she’s still the same woman and it’s still the same place, and as the past erupts into view, they slowly collide.A Little ...

Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's roadside camp.With sudden shifts in the characters' lives, this novel takes in the whole story: telling of love, loss and family, it spans the worlds of São Paulo's rich kids and dispossessed Guarani Indians along Brazil's highways. One man escapes into an immigrant squatter's life in London, while another...

"This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff." —James Sallis, author of DriveThe first novel to appear in English by the "subway janitor by night, novelist by day," who began his writing career while an undocumented immigrant in the United States, Like Flies from Afar wil...

Meet Megan, a little girl with a big imagination who is not afraid to speak her mind. Megan always knows exactly what she wants; and right now, what she wants is SNOW! But outside her window, there’s nothing to see but grey skies and rain.Megan knows that when the real world lets you down, there’s only one thing to do. She turns to her books and there between the pages, she finds magic waiting for her.