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Beryl Bainbridge: An Awfully Big
Adventure / B

An Awfully Big Adventure

In the heart of 19th-century Spain, where the bustling streets of Madrid echo with the whispers of intellectual exploration, a profound tale of personal identity unfolds. This philosophical fiction, once lost to time, has been lovingly restored for today's and future generations, offering a fresh lens through which to view the timeless dance of human relationships. As a work of social commentary, it invites readers to ponder the intricacies of societal norms and personal convictions, making it as relevant now as it was in its original era.

This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For decades, the book was out of print, but now, thanks to Alpha Editions, it returns to the shelves, ready to captivate classic literature enthusiasts and Spanish language learners alike. Its pages are a testament to the brilliance of Spanish realist authors, capturing the essence of Madrid's vibrant setting and the nuanced interplay of its characters' lives.

The narrative weaves through the complexities of personal identity with a deft hand, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the rich tapestry of 19th-century Spanish literature. As a key piece of Benito Pérez Galdós's works, it stands as a beacon for those seeking both intellectual stimulation and emotional resonance. This restored edition ensures that its legacy endures, a bridge between past and present, enriching the literary heritage for generations to come.

El Amigo Manso

'Heartwarming, nostalgic and poignant' Lucy ClarkeBuy a lottery ticket¿Win your wildest dreams¿Lose everything...?One lucky ticket is about to change everythingEdie and Ron have been together for nearly fifty years, keeping each other afloat by the skin of their teeth. They've always been ordinary - until something very extraordinary happens.Winning the lottery is everything they've ever wanted - well, almost.Because for the last twenty years, Edie and Ron have been running from a secret that tore their family apart. And when you can suddenly buy everything you've ever wanted, you realise that the only thing you really want is the one thing money can't buy.Join Edie as she finally takes control. She's had enough of playing the hand she's been dealt - it's time to risk it all.

How to Lose the Lottery

Venice. The perfect setting for romance, and for secrets to be shared. 'Stunning, utterly beautiful . . . Jill at her absolute best. One of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read' Jo Thomas Fen can't believe her luck. A luxury holiday with her beloved grandmother Disa - what could be more delightful? It doesn't cross her mind that she might fall in love. Or that love can bring complications . . . Jamie can't help it that women always fall for him, rather than for his kind-hearted friend Leon. Nor that only one of them got the looks (that would be Jamie). But how will he feel if the girl he's drawn to only has eyes for Leon? Disa has a secret. A few weeks ago, an old letter in a file revealed a shocking truth about her late husband. She's come to Venice to find out more. There's news on the way that will reverberate through all their lives, as Jill Mansell's joyful, heartbreaking new novel takes readers on a roller coaster ride of emotion - and makes us believe in love again. Acclaim for Jill's novels: 'Wonderful setting, fabulous plot lines' Milly Johnson 'Vintage Jill Mansell . . . a real ray of sunshine' Fabulous 'The queen of romantic, witty and heartwarming novels' Daily Express

'There is nothing like a Jill Mansell book to make the world feel better' Milly Johnson

Just One Look At You

ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE... DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press is having a field day with what they have named the Grimm Ripper Murders. But as the bodies stack up, Lyla's whole world is about to flip on its head. Because the killer's bloody trail stretches deep into her own origin story, and when she discovers the truth, nothing will ever be the same again. Faced with the fact that everything she knows is fiction, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own if she's going to turn the final page on the killings... 'An exquisite puzzle of a crime thriller, it revels in the shadows, as reality is savagely entwined with the very roots of storytelling itself... Prepare to be spellbound because A. K. Benedict is a master of this darkest art' JANICE HALLETT 'A clever, clever, thoroughly meta, extraordinarily enjoyable modern fairy-tale with layer after layer of intrigue and a breathless pace, I loved it, especially the delicious happy ever after' ANDREA MARA 'Hugely inventive and mind-bendingly clever' CLAIRE McGOWAN &nbsp; 'A fairytale trickster of a book, witty, sly and wickedly clever; it gripped me from first page to last.&nbsp;This is the thriller you'd get if Angela Carter kidnapped Stephen King and made him write with toadstool ink' KIT WHITFIELD &nbsp; 'Some passages read like Agatha Christie, some like Angela Carter&nbsp;- but all of it is written with the smoothness and intelligence that is AK Benedict's signature style. With charm and chills often on the same page, this is a serpentine novel that refuses to give up its secrets until it's good and ready' CHARLOTTE BOND

A mind-bending murder mystery like nothing you've read before - enter the woods, if you dare

Little Red Death

Messenger Cat Café

The Fallen Gods Trilogy

Faithbreaker

Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead.------------------------------------------------PICKED AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 BY ELLE, VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN, STYLIST, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, OPRAH DAILY AND WOMEN.COM'Unputdownable' COSMOPOLITAN'One to watch' ELLE'Wildly fun' i PAPER'A literary entrance worth noting' WOMEN.COM'I tore through it; as hilarious as it is heartfelt' CLAIRE DAVERLEY'Fans of Dolly Alderton and Nora Ephron will eat this up' LAURA HANKIN'Breathtakingly original' CLARE LESLIE HALL'Dazzlingly funny and devastating and life-affirming' ELLA BERMAN'A funny book about grief, an honest book about lying' JENNY JACKSON'A blazing firework of a novel' MORGAN DICK'A book as compulsive as Dandelion Is Dead has no business being this psychologically astute, this emotionally complex, this genuinely hot ... One of the fiction debuts of the year' EMMA FORREST------------------------------------------------Seven months after Dandelion's death, Poppy resurrects her sister's phone and finds a message from a man on a dating app. Jake.Dandelion delighted in bad behaviour. She pushed Poppy to be daring. So, on what would have been her 40th birthday, Poppy decides to do something her sister would love, and - for one night only - she goes on a date as Dandelion.Only when Poppy meets Jake, they have unexpected chemistry. Thrillingly hot, confusing chemistry. They become tangled in deceit while discovering something shockingly real. What happens when you fall in love with a lie?As a precarious dare spirals somewhere altogether more unexpected, Dandelion is Dead becomes a love story, a ballad of sisterhood and an ode to bad behaviour.------------------------------------------------'Almost made me redownload Hinge for the plot' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'What starts as a grief-fuelled moment of reckless curiosity turns into a wildly original rom-com ... The masterful pacing and vividly realised characters make it hard to believe that this is Storey's first book' OPRAH DAILY'This tale of both romantic and sisterly love seamlessly combines humor and heartbreak' PEOPLE'If you're a fan of messy, character-driven conflict in contemporary fiction, Dandelion Is Dead is for you ... this book read like an indie movie: A little raw, a little quirky, with lots of heart' READER'S DIGEST'The novel is as lively and vibrant as its titular character is dead' BOOK REPORTER

Dandelion is Dead

'Kim Young-Ha is exceedingly good' New York Journal of Books 'Sublime, galvanizing' Nylon 'Compelling' Atlantic ___________________________ It's been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six? In his prime, Kim Byeongsu was one of the best murderers around. But he gave it all up to become a dedicated father. Despite suffering from dementia, he decides to come out of retirement for one final target: his daughter's boyfriend, who he suspects is a killer too. In other dark, glittering tales, an affair between childhood friends questions the limits of loyalty and love; a family disintegrates after their baby is kidnapped and recovered years later; and the pursuit of creative fulfilment may come at the expense of all reason... _____________________________ Readers are loving Diary of a Murderer 'A masterclass in storytelling' 'A page-turner' 'Haunting and unique' 'Reminds me why I love reading' 'Sharp, dark and edgy'

Chilling Korean crime stories from the award-winning writer

Diary of a Murderer

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a heartfelt, multigenerational family story which asks: what does it mean to call a place home? 'Delectable... a pleasure to read' THE TIMES 'A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest' JOHN BOYNE 'Utterly absorbing, a big, sweeping story of family and identity' EDEL COFFEY 'Why hadn't she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?' Rafaela remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip. Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from - the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past. Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, and something else. What was it? Now Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy's bedside and confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family and led them to this moment.

the poignant and uplifting family story from the bestselling author of American Dirt

Speak to Me of Home

From the author of&nbsp;Hollow Kingdom,&nbsp;a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever in this “deliciously absurd tale....I savored every page of this book.” (Shelby Van Pelt, author of&nbsp;Remarkably Bright Creatures) A 2025&nbsp;Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction After nearly losing the election to a geriatric donkey, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci can’t help but feel like the sun has finally set on the rural Italian village of Lazzarini Boscarino. Tourists only stop by to ask for directions, Nonna Amara’s cherished&nbsp;ristorante&nbsp;is long shuttered, and the town hall is disgustingly overrun with&nbsp;glis glis&nbsp;poo—even Postman Duccio has been disgraced. All that’s left is Bar Celebrità, a rustic establishment where weary locals gather to quibble over decades-long disputes, submit their poor stomachs to bartender Giuseppina’s volcanic espresso, and wonder what will become of the place where together they’ve spent their entire lives. &nbsp; Little do the villagers know that local truffle hunter Giovanni Scarpazza has just happened upon something that could change everything. A truffle—un&nbsp;tartufo, that is—sits beneath the soil with the power to either be the greatest gift or the foulest curse the village has ever seen. Written with the same enchanting style and raucous humor that defines&nbsp;Hollow Kingdom&nbsp;and&nbsp;Feral Creatures, Tartufo is a reflection on the interconnectedness of life in all its manifestations—and how holding on to harmony in the face of hardship can grow something beautiful and rare beneath the surface.

Tartufo

A whimsical queer romance about two mismatched roommates whose fragile—and definitely not romantic at all—balance is upended by an impending family wedding and an otherworldly danger in the nearby enchanted wood. There are at least 100 things wrong with Meredith Schwarzwelder. In fact, keeping track of these things is the only way David Carew has managed to remain living with him for as long as he has. Meredith is an irredeemable eccentric who flirts with everyone in his path (#3 on the list), cries at anything (#35), makes the worst coffee in the world (#70), and talks to mice, or imagines he does (#50). It’s bad enough living with such a person on the edge of the Midnight Wood, but when magic starts to seep from the wood and a dark being emerges with a sinister plan involving Meredith, David decides that it’s time to leave the cottage, and his roommate, behind. Then Meredith’s brother gets engaged to the daughter of David’s boss, and David sees an opportunity: If he can insert himself into the festivities, maybe he can advance his career and get himself out of a personal rut. With wedding bells sounding and the dangers of the Midnight Wood encroaching, David realizes there’s much more hiding beneath the surface of his roommate’s seemingly carefree charm, and that perhaps his own exasperation carries more fondness than he’d like to admit. Cozy, sharp, steamy, and poignant, Into the Midnight Wood is a contemporary queer fairy tale about the masks we wear, the stories we tell, and the powerful need for true, honest connection to heal old wounds and new.

A Novel

Into the Midnight Wood

One dead wife is tragic. Two looks like murder...**Get hooked on the new, addictive school gate thriller and discover why millions of readers LOVE C.L. Taylor's books.**________Welcome to Lowbridge. Where secrets hide behind every door...When newly divorced Jude arrives in the small town of Lowbridge, she is soon drawn to widower Will, the father of her young daughter's best friend.But Will's past is shrouded in tragedy, with questions that no one knows the answer to - and after two tragedies tore his life apart in just a few short years, gossip and rumours abound about what really happened to the women he loved.As whispers of murder surround Will, Jude becomes determined to uncover the truth - and with her own father's tragic fate haunting her, she refuses to let another innocent man suffer.Yet in Lowbridge the darkness runs deep, and nothing is as it seems. Can Jude protect Will from a community out for blood? Or will she become the next victim in this web of deceit?Because whilst one dead wife is tragic, two starts to look like murder...________Praise for C.L. Taylor:'I absolutely loved it!' Lisa Jewell'Wow this was exceptional! Clever, original and filled with tension, this is a story I won't ever forget. C.L. Taylor's best yet.' Claire Douglas'Clever, tense and satisfying' Andrea Mara'I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Louise Candlish'Spine-chilling at every turn! One of the best thrillers of the year.' Jeffery Deaver'A tense, twisty thrill-ride of stalking, obsession and revenge.' TM Logan'I absolutely love C.L. Taylor's writing.' Liz Nugent'I absolutely loved this book and finished it in one sitting...In true C.L. Taylor style, it's delightfully twisty.' Katy Brent

It’s Always the Husband

An Awfully Big Adventure

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