Still functioning. Quietly breaking.From the outside, Alice looks fine.She's managing work, family, and responsibility - the person everyone depends on.Inside, she's exhausted.Caught in a cycle of anxiety, alcohol, and a relentless inner voice telling her she's not enough, Alice keeps promising herself she'll change... from Monday.There's no dramatic collapse. Just a slow erosion hidden behind competence, routines, and coping.

'A phenomenal book. It is going to be the biggest sports book of the year' Tommy Bowe'White Lines ... might just be the sporting autobiography of the year. It's a gripping read, full of sobering insights into professional rugby and life' The Guardian'Drips with authenticity and takes "warts and all" to a whole new level' Irish Independent'This compelling document will surely be on ...

Brought to you by Penguin.**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will the...

The new novel from the bestselling author of This Christmas, Maybe Next Christmas and Every Christmas Eve!Cara Mallon is facing Christmas alone when she arrives at Ashford Castle, six months after her fiancé called off their winter wedding. She hopes launching her travel business with a festive press trip will provide the distraction she needs.When Cara meets charming travel blogger Declan Walshe, sparks begin to fly. But Declan h...

"Laced with plenty of Manc humour... this is not for the good and great, more for the bad and mad." Cass Pennant"Written with blistering Mancunian humour, Blaney explains everything from the sneak thieving, the women, the drugs, the jails, and the mayhem... Amazing memories, well worth a go" Ian Hough, author of Perry BoysGrafters: Mancs Abroad is the tale of Manc lads who lived high on the hog for a couple of decades across Europe robbing the natives blind. Like all ro...

Collects Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace #0.5, Star Wars: Episode I: Anakin Skywalker #1, Star Wars: Episode I: Queen Amidala #1, Star Wars: Episode I: Qui-Gon Jinn #1, Star Wars: Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi #1, Star Wars: Republic (1998) #7-18, Star Wars: Jango Fett - Open Seasons #1-4. It is the beginning of the end of the Galactic Republic. The Jedi just don't know it yet...Across the galaxy, tensions rise and wars threaten as the unseen Sith set in motion their plans for conquest....

A shocking exposé of the desperate subculture surrounding addiction, William S. Burroughs' cult classic Junky is now available for the first time on unabridged audioBurroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through time spent kicking and time spent dealing, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report from t...

Chuck Palahniuk, literature’s favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In “Expedition,” fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display: in “Zombies,” the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragic...

Brought to you by Penguin.A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. T...

Brought to you by Penguin.When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks' reprieve from school, but when her classmate Ross succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other.As others fall ill, questions about what - o...

A vivid and brutal reimagining of Homer's Iliad, set in the Troubles of the late twentieth-century.That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the ceasefire. But them that were around that part of the country remember every bit.Wait now till you hear the rest.Northern Ireland, 1996.After twenty-five years of conflict, the IRA and the Briti...

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture.Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of Bill Lee, addicted to hustlers and narcotics, and his monumental descent into Hell. His...