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Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this timely thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men. Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life...

As a private eye in New York City, it’s Jessica Jones’s job to investigate humanity’s worst, unleashed impulses. Possessing superhuman strength and endurance does nothing to help her process other people’s tragedies, much less her own slate of unresolved traumatic issues. Realizing drinking and hitting things is no way to cope with her problems—no matter how much fun it is—Jessica gives therapy a try. But she finds it hard to look after herself when so many people need help.

Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls takes her to a place darker and lonelier than she could have ever imagined. The lab-grown dolls can respond to pleasure or pain; their synthetic heads contain only the simplest AI to prevent any pesky robo sex doll uprisings. But just because growgirls don’t have a brain, doesn’t mean they don’t have a voice...

Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons.

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last...

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger...

Written for audio format, this collection of six science fiction stories draw on themes of arrival, discovery and destination. Commissioned especially for Audible, and narrated by outstanding performers, these stories evoke the traditional storytelling of West African Jali as the unknown and distant are brought to life for audiences.

In this reality-bending thriller from the author of The Shining Girls, a grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities.It was a game they played; the other worlds, the other lives. It was part of her mom’s grand delusions. It wasn’t real. Unless it...

The Shining Girls: A Novel: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist. Harper Curtis is a...

What's really going on? Who's really in charge? You have NO. F***KING. IDEA. In the near future, an art-school dropout, an AIDS baby, a tech-activist, and an RPG-obsessed blogger live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment, but someone's got to stand up to Government Inc. - whatever the cost.

A Detroit detective, her geeky daughter, a journalist, and a homeless man struggle with broken dreams, terrifying threats, and long-buried secrets in this thriller of inner and outer worlds that are tearing at the seams. Broken Monsters: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to...

Chicago, 1930. Lee Harper ist kaltblütig, hochgefährlich, von Wahnvorstellungen getrieben. Er findet den Schlüssel zu einem alten Haus, dessen Türen sich zur Zukunft öffnen. Im Schlafzimmer sind die Bilder von neun jungen Mädchen aufgereiht, die seltsam zu leuchten scheinen. Harper spürt, dass er dazu bestimmt ist, die Mädchen zu töten. Von nun an reist er durch die Zeit, um seine Shining Girls aufzuspüren. Niemand kann ihn auf seinem mörderischen Feldzug stoppen.

La detective Gabriella Versado ha visto molti cadaveri. Ma questo è unico anche per gli standard di Detroit: per metà ragazzo e metà cervo, fusi insieme. Con la scoperta di cadaveri sempre più strani e inquietanti, come farà la città a resistere a una realtà che si sta già lacerando? Se siete Layla, la figlia adolescente secchiona della detective Versado, inizierete un pericoloso flirt con un potenziale predatore online. Se siete il disperato giornalista freelance Jonno, farete di tutto per ottenere l’esclusiva su una storia sconvolgente.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . . Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead...

The girl who wouldn’t die, hunting a killer who shouldn’t exist… A terrifying and original serial-killer thriller from award-winning author, Lauren Beukes.“It’s not my fault. It’s yours. You shouldn’t shine. You shouldn’t make me do this.”Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls' through the decades – and cut the spark out of them.

Brought to you by Penguin. Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run . . . All Cole has left in the world is her boy, Miles. With men now a prized commodity, keeping him safe means breaking hastily written new rules - and leaving her own sister...

Chicago, 1931. Prima di trovare la Casa Harper Curtis era uno dei tanti vagabondi in una città schiacciata dalla Depressione. Poi una voce lo attira in quella che sembra solo una villa in rovina, e la sua vita cambia per sempre. Le porte della Casa permettono di viaggiare nel tempo e lui incomincia ad assaporare le meraviglie del futuro. Ma Harper Curtis è anche un uomo violento e crudele, un sadico, e a farne le spese sono giovani donne, forti, indipendenti e ricche di talento.

In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. A terrifying new thriller from Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of The Shining Girls. Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide...

Brought to you by Penguin. The mind-bending masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss. In infinite parallel universes, there's a version of you who already has everything you've ever wanted. But 24 year old...

Brought to you by Penguin. In a troubling, near-future Cape Town four broken people try to carve out a place for themselves before a brutal storm of change hits them . . . Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to...