Until she meets Arthur. He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office – the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in – he is a source of much-needed sustenance.

And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life. Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

Hera ha circa venticinque anni, un’età che sembra giovane a tutti tranne che a chi ha vent’anni. Da quando ha lasciato la scuola, ha cercato di dare il massimo per vivere una vita che le piaccia, ma finora con scarso successo.

Finché non incontra Arthur. Lavora con lei, è più grande di lei, ed è anche sposato. Ma nel suo ufficio senza anima – la grande stanza fredda in cui sente di essere destinata a trascorrere la sua vita – lui è una fonte di sostentamento indispensabile.

E sebbene Hera abbia già avuto relazioni con altre donne, presto si lascia travolgere da una storia d’amore sul posto di lavoro che le consumerà rapidamente la vita. Esilarante, profondamente commovente e brillante, Green Dot è una storia sul terribile fascino di desiderare qualcosa che non promette nulla e sul tortuoso, spesso esilarante viaggio che intraprendiamo per decidere chi siamo e chi vogliamo essere.

The Marshalls have been keeping secrets. And someone is prepared to kill to hide the truth. Until Maeve finds out what happened to Rosalie, no one will be safe …

It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family – something ‘like you’d see in a Spielberg movie’. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she’s forgotten something important about her past.

As expected, it’s not a match made in heaven – that is until one night, while tossing back tequilas, they form a plan. And if it involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together, well, who could blame them?But it’s all just for show, of course. Because there’s no way Daphne would start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex… right?

In The Patron Saints of Middle Age, a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In A for Alone, a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in Lost but Not Forgotten, Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion.

The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.

But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family. Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends. As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre—from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.

Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodie’s most outrageous and memorable case yet.

Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.

And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .