"This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries. As well as the complete text of the play, this re-edited New Mermaids edition includes: · A detailed plot summary and annotations throughout the text · An annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading · A comprehensive introduction exploring the...

"‘Up there with the best of them…A big, fat five stars from me’ Sue Moorcroft ‘An irresistible slice of escapism’ Phillipa Ashley Grab your passport and escape to a land of dazzling skyscrapers, steaming bowls of comforting noodles, and a page-turning love story that will make you swoon! For travel blogger Fiona, Japan has always been top of her bucket list so when she wins an all-expenses paid trip, it looks like her...

The Iliad is an epic poem that has captivated readers for over two millennia; the tale of the Trojan War and of Achilles - its most glorious hero. The wrath of courageous Achilles is at the heart of the Iliad. When Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, shows contempt and disrespect to the great warrior, Achilles decides to withdraw from the war. Meanwhile Hector, the prince of Troy, is leading the Trojans on from one victory to another. But when Hector kills Patroclus ‒loyal friend of Achilles‒ the great...

"** PRE-ORDER THE SEQUEL I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI NOW ** THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she...

"The number one Sunday Times bestseller, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. 'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates' – The Observer A Selection of Dua Lipa's Service95 Bookclub. Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine...

"""Elsie Silver's writing is a true revelation!"" ALI HAZELWOOD --- Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs: the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver. Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison. Two childhood best friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. I've been living in the friend zone for years now. To Jasper Gervais's fans, he's just the hockey heartthrob on TV. But to me, he's still the...

"FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES TO WATCH RICH PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY . . . 'Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'The perfect page-turning summer read' GRAZIA BOOK CLUB 'Think Succession by the sea' RED MAGAZINE 'Wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp' KEVIN KWAN 'Cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written' DAILY MAIL 'Delicious: such gossipy, naughty fun. Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this darkly hilarious book over one weekend and resented everything that kept...

"The fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling Witcher series that inspired the hit Netflix show finds Ciri trapped in a distant world and separated from Geralt and her destiny. After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world... a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. But this...

"From Olivie Blake, the bestselling author of The Atlas Six, One For My Enemy is a captivating fantasy story of ambition, sacrifice and the enduring power of family legacies. 'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' - Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights In New York City, two rival witch families fight for the upper hand. The Antonova sisters are beautiful, cunning and ruthless, and their mother – known only as Baba Yaga – is the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants. Their adversaries, the...

"The film tie-in edition of the royally romantic, enemies-to-lovers bestseller from Casey McQuiston. Now a Prime Original movie starring Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez. What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic, a genius – pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House ever since his mother first became President of the United States. There’s only one problem. When the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an...

"She's a good girl, but she's falling for the wrong man. Broken down by her emotionally neglectful ex, all Charlie Underwood wants is someone to tell her she's good enough. Then she stumbles into a new job with a boss who brings her to her knees-literally. As an owner of the Salacious Players' Club, Emerson Grant knows exactly what he wants and isn't shy about his particular tastes. But when he mistakes Charlie for a candidate to be his new submissive instead of his son's ex-girlfriend, he immediately tries to...

"‘I was completely captivated’ Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien. England, 1444. Three women challenge the course of history… King Henry VI’s grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses starts to tear England apart. And from the ashes of war, the House of Paston begins its rise to power. Led by three visionary women, the Pastons...

"A Sunday Times Bestseller THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos, QR codes of videos, and all album information. After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official...

"From the author of the heart-wrenching global phenomenon It Ends With Us - now a major film starring Blake Lively - comes a breath-taking psychological suspense about obsession and dangerous love . . . Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care...

"The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a light-hearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes and trying to make each other laugh. While No Longer...

"This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai’s novel has made “people of the setting sun” a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the...

"Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. ""Everything's gone,"" the father explains to his daughter: ""Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up,"" ""Yeah, they all burned up,""...

"DISCOVER JUST HOW INTOXICATING LANCASTER PREP CAN BE WITH THE LATEST FROM THE TIKTOK SENSATION AND AUTHOR OF A MILLION KISSES IN YOUR LIFETIME Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep. He could have any girl on campus, except for one. Me. I'm a Lancaster, meaning I'm basically untouchable - or so I thought. My family owns the school which I have to endure before I can return to what I love most: ballet. West doesn't make my time here easy. He's arrogant. Crude. Insufferable. Yet he's the only...

"***NEW NOVEL ATMOSPHERE COMING JUNE 2025 – PREORDER NOW*** From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . . just order it' EMILY HENRY 'A crowd-pleaser. Taylor Jenkins Reid captures all the sweat, rivalry and glamour of elite sport' THE TIMES 'Jenkins Reid has written yet another page turner . . . [it] will have you hooked' INDEPENDENT ...

"If you loved From Lukov with Love - the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world - then you don't want to miss any of Mariana's unique romances! No one writes slow burn like Mariana Zapata and her millions of fans agree! 'A seriously addictive slow burn romance. This book was seriously perfect.' ? ? ? ? ? reader review 'This one just really hit the spot for me. Great characters, slow burn romance, funny interactions, and when the heat finally hits, it's delicious. I read straight...

"The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now! ?“Only someone like Jeffrey Archer … could have written a compelling story like this. Every page bristles with suspense and the ending comes at you with the force of a tank round” DAVID BALDACCI THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER ‘Only someone like Jeffrey Archer … could have written a...

"**Now a major film KILLER HEAT starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden, streaming on Prime Video** **THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR** ____________________________________ Murder. Assassination. Revenge. Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime. Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or something...

"The startlingly powerful psychological thriller by international bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek. Now adapted into a compelling TV series from Amazon Germany. Four years ago Josy, the 12-year-old daughter of well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, disappeared without trace: no witnesses, no demands, no body. In the aftermath of Josy's disappearance, Viktor's marriage broke down and he withdrew to a remote North Sea island to find peace and to heal. Now, that peace has been shattered by the arrival of Anna...

"THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES. YOU KNOW WHO WILL LOVE READING THIS? EVERYONE! ---------- 'Full of Osman's trademark charm, insight and intelligence' Lee Child 'Tender, hopeful and funny' Marian Keyes 'I adored this thrilling adventure. His best yet!' Claire Douglas 'Infectious, charming and full of heart' Gillian McAllister It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the...

"Meet the Kings of Sin . . . The must-read billionaire romance from the bestselling author of the Twisted series. Read King of Pride now for a steamy opposites attract romance. She's his opposite in every way . . . and the greatest temptation he's ever known. Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos - and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the...

"A steamy second chance/roommate romance from Ana Huang, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kings of Sin and Twisted series Two exes, one house. What could go wrong? Olivia had a plan: MBA, Wall Street VP by thirty-two, marriage and two children (preferably twins because #efficiency). Not in her plan? Losing half her belongings in an apartment flood and being forced to turn to her ex for help. Definitely not in her plan? Moving into said ex's house and watching him walk around shirtless, bake her...