I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath.

A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare.

Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman’s charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring.

Guilt, grief and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection – but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love and longing, each sinister and beautiful.

Step by step these unnerving stories lure us into the shadows to confront the monsters of everyday life – ourselves.

Un’avvincente miscela di crudo, sorprendente e tragico, ogni storia è inaspettata come una trappola: tesa, squisitamente avvolta, pronta a spezzarsi al minimo tocco.

Qui, un giovane padre è tormentato dalle conseguenze di un momento di distrazione; la tragedia è complicata dall’inspiegabile comparsa di un cavallo ferito; un tentativo di avvelenamento porta due scrittori a conclusioni sorprendenti; la carità di una donna sola viene ricompensata con un’invasione domestica. E nella sconvolgente storia d’apertura, una madre emerge dalle profondità del lago dietro casa sua, dove ha visto qualcosa di orribile ma affascinante.

Colpa, dolore e relazioni interrotte permeano questa affascinante raccolta, ma lo fanno anche i legami indicibili di famiglia, amore e desiderio, ognuno sinistro e meraviglioso.

Passo dopo passo, queste storie inquietanti ci attirano nell’ombra per affrontare i mostri della vita quotidiana: noi stessi.

Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, they must undermine the old families of the Camorra and remain united among themselves. Every paranzino has his own vendettas and dreams to pursue – dreams that might go beyond the laws of the gang. A new war may be about to break out in this city of cut-throat bargaining, ruthless betrayal, and brutal revenge.

Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’ envy and violence. As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.

Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security

Un’avvincente miscela di crudo, sorprendente e tragico, ogni storia è inaspettata come una trappola: tesa, squisitamente avvolta, pronta a spezzarsi al minimo tocco. Qui, un giovane padre è tormentato dalle conseguenze di un momento di distrazione; la tragedia è complicata dall’inspiegabile comparsa di un cavallo ferito; un tentativo di avvelenamento porta due scrittori a conclusioni sorprendenti; la carità di una donna sola viene ricompensata con un’invasione domestica.
E nella sconvolgente storia d’apertura, una madre emerge dalle profondità del lago dietro casa sua, dove ha visto qualcosa di orribile ma affascinante. Senso di colpa, dolore e relazioni interrotte permeano questa affascinante raccolta, ma lo fanno anche gli indicibili legami familiari, d’amore e di desiderio, ognuno sinistro e meraviglioso. Passo dopo passo, queste storie inquietanti ci attirano nell’ombra per affrontare i mostri della vita quotidiana: noi stessi.

This stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother.

Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss. And then a woman approaches her.

The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist. No, says Bonita, my mother didn’t paint. She never travelled to Mexico.

But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows her. Into a story where Bonita and her mother will move apart and come together, and where the past threatens to flood the present, or re-write it.

There are hundreds, even thousands of them. They capture your best days and your worst, memories you treasure and those you try to forget. And then there are the rest, those in-between days that we didn’t know were leading to the great highs and lows.

Then, you are asked to pick one photograph from each year to be placed in a beautiful Japanese lantern, to be set spinning so that your life will flash before your eyes before you move on. This is the task set for each guest who arrives in Hirasaka’s photo studio. Like our most thumbed-over photos, our favourite memories can be tarnished in time too, so Hirasaka guides the guests back in time to relive one special day over again, to take a fresh photo and find peace.

If you could relive one day of your life, which would it be?

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 . . .