»Sex and the City« meets »The Great Gatsby« - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott Patricia ist 24 Jahre alt, als ihr Mann sie verlässt. Vor den Kopf gestoßen versucht sie zunächst, um ihn zu kämpfen. Aber sie merkt schnell: Sie will - und vor allem kann - auch ohne Peter leben. Das New York der 1920er ist eine flirrende Metropole und Patricia stürzt sich in die Party-Szene: Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, aber auch schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen, erlebt sie, welche Konsequenzen es hat, mit dem typischen Frauenbild zu brechen. »Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.« Mareike Fallwickl »Umwerfend aktuell!« The Guardian »Ein bewegendes, witziges und manchmal beunruhigendes Porträt einer Frau, die schockiert ist über das Ende einer Beziehung, von der sie dachte, sie würde ewig dauern. Beim Lesen war ich erstaunt über die Ähnlichkeit unserer Erfahrungen, trotz der fast 100 Jahre, die zwischen Patricias und meiner Scheidung liegen.« Monica Heisey, The Guardian

'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson This is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It's a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker's breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon. Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, Blood and Guts in High School is published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William S. Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others.

'I devoured this book! Jane Anger is a voice that must be heard, and in Rosanna Pike's capable hands, she sings' Bonnie Garmus, author of Peck and Peck 'A gloriously sharp and wonderfully witty novel about the power of the written word - and a woman finding her voice. Rosanna Pike has crafted a heroine for the ages. I loved it' Emilia Hart, author of The Sirens 'Historical fiction at its most sharp and lively. Filled with seething anger and scathing wit, this novel enrages, surprises, and entertains' Emma Van Straaten, author of This Immaculate Body 1589: A woman may be on the throne of England, but in the burgeoning pamphlet-printing business it is men who own the narrative. And the narrative tells a familiar story against women: of original sin and corruption, of temptresses and witches, of the risky folly of indulging an outspoken wife. Kit Straker, trapped in a marriage to a man whose ego is as large as his belly is wide, can only suffer in silence as the pamphlets of Francis Straker, decrying the weakness and sinfulness of the fairer sex gather a growing following in the city. But when she meets Will, an apprentice printer, and Winifred, a prostitute who has carved out her own kind of freedom among the stews of Southwark, they give her the courage to secretly defy her husband and spread her own, very different message. Soon London is in thrall to the battle of wits between 'Jane Anger' and Francis Straker, and the women of the city are asking questions they have never dared utter before. But as the net closes in around her and those she loves are dragged deeper into danger, Kit must choose between staying silent or gambling all on the power of words.

Originelle Cocktails inspiriert von TV-SerienDer nächste Fernsehabend wird zu etwas ganz Besonderem mit einem originellen Cocktail in der Hand! Wie wäre es mit einer Neuinterpretation des Cosmoplitan aus 'Sex and the City'? Und was wären eigentlich die Lieblingscocktails von Walter White oder Daenerys Targaryen? Inspiriert von den beliebtesten Fernsehserien der TV-Geschichte präsentiert dieses Buch köstliche und unterhaltsame Drinks zum Selbermixen. Von Klassikern wie dem Old Fashioned, der in 'Mad Men' nicht fehlen darf, bis hin zu neuen Kreationen wie dem Central Perk als Hommage an 'Friends' findet sich unter den 60 Rezepten für jeden Geschmack das passende Getränk. Begleitet von stilvollen Illustrationen vermittelt das Buch auch die Grundlagen des Equipments, der Zutaten und Zubereitung sowie des Servierens von Cocktails.

**Setzt du deine Karriere für die große Liebe aufs Spiel?** Nach einem desaströsen Vorstellungsgespräch kann Megan es kaum glauben, dass sie tatsächlich ihren ersten Tag in Londons erfolgreichster Modeagentur antritt. Als sie jedoch den Sohn des Geschäftsführers kennenlernt, ist dies niemand anderer als Adrian - der heiße Fremde, den sie gestern in einer Bar geküsst hat! Auch Adrian hat nicht damit gerechnet, Megan jemals wiederzusehen, und als sich die Ungereimtheiten um eine verschwundene Kollegin häufen, müssen sie der Sache gemeinsam auf den Grund gehen. Schon bald ist nicht nur Megans Herz in Gefahr, denn die Intrigen gehen weitaus tiefer, als beide ahnen konnten ... 'Gossip Girl' trifft auf 'Sex and the City' in der Londoner Modewelt. //Dies ist ein in sich abgeschlossener Einzelband.//

»Sex and the City« meets »The Great Gatsby« - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott Patricia ist 24 Jahre alt, als ihr Mann sie verlässt. Vor den Kopf gestoßen versucht sie zunächst, um ihn zu kämpfen. Aber sie merkt schnell: Sie will - und vor allem kann - auch ohne Peter leben. Das New York der 1920er ist eine flirrende Metropole und Patricia stürzt sich in die Party-Szene: Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, aber auch schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen, erlebt sie, welche Konsequenzen es hat, mit dem typischen Frauenbild zu brechen. »Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.« Mareike Fallwickl»Umwerfend aktuell!« The Guardian »Ein bewegendes, witziges und manchmal beunruhigendes Porträt einer Frau, die schockiert ist über das Ende einer Beziehung, von der sie dachte, sie würde ewig dauern.Beim Lesen war ich erstaunt über die Ähnlichkeit unserer Erfahrungen, trotz der fast 100 Jahre, die zwischen Patricias und meiner Scheidung liegen.« Monica Heisey, The Guardian

**Gefangen zwischen royaler Pflicht und verbotener Liebe** Als die Tänzerin Solace River in einem Londoner Nachtclub auf den mysteriösen DJ KiNG trifft, ahnt sie nicht, wie sehr sein Name Programm ist. Eingeengt von seinen royalen Pflichten und den damit verbundenen Erwartungen, führt der charmante Kronprinz nachts ein wildes Doppelleben, welches unter keinen Umständen auffliegen darf, wenn er seinen bereits dürftigen Ruf nicht völlig ruinieren möchte. Ausgerechnet Solace führt den bekanntesten Social-Media-Account der Stadt und könnte Kings Identität mit nur einem Post offenlegen. Als sich ihre Wege immer wieder kreuzen, wird aus anfänglicher Faszination bald mehr. Doch schafft es Solace, ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen und kann King sein Misstrauen überwinden? Persönliche Leseempfehlung: »Verkleideter Prinz meets Sex and the City Girls - humorvoll, sexy und wundervoll leicht.« - Valentina Fast, Autorin //Dies ist ein in sich abgeschlossener Einzelband.//

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Things aren't looking good for Blast. Shin, under extreme stress from the band's rising success and his relationship with Reira, seeks out reconciliation wherever he can. Reestablishing ties with his own family turns out to be a horrible failure, and before he can connect Nana with her unknown little sister, Shin gets arrested! Is this the end of Blast?!

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Ever since she got engaged to Takumi and moved out of apartment 707, Hachi has felt like she's slipping out of Nana's life. When the tabloids start digging up Nana's troubled family history, Hachi tries to step in and take care of things. But the price for bringing down Blast keeps going up. Will Hachi's good intentions just make things worse?!

From Katie Cotugno and author of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell comes this fierce and feisty exploration of feminism: standing up, speaking out and rewriting the rules. Don't be easy. Don't give it up. Don't be a prude. Don't be cold. Don't put him in the friendzone. Don't act desperate. Don't let things go too far. Don't give him the wrong idea. Don't blame him for trying. Don't walk alone at night. But calm down! Don't worry so much. Smile! Marin is a smart, driven, popular girl - she's headed for Brown when she graduates and has a brilliant career as a journalist ahead of her. Especially in the eyes of English teacher Mr Beckett. He spends a lot of time around Marin, and she thinks it's harmless . . . until he kisses her. No one believes Marin when she tells them what happened, so she does the only thing she can: she writes an article called 'Rules for Being a Girl' for the school paper to point out the misogyny and sexism that girls face every day. As things heat up at school and in her personal life, Marin must figure out how to take back the power and rewrite her own rules.

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Things are slowly coming together for Nana Osaki. The guitarist and drummer from her old band have joined her in Tokyo and she's finally found a ripping new bass player to replace Ren Honjo. The Black Stones are back and they're ready to kick some ass. Nana Komatsu, however, can't shake her old nemesis, the Demon Lord. She's stuck in a dead-end job and there's trouble brewing with her boyfriend, Shoji. He's been working late and hasn't exactly been the most attentive lover. Poor Nana. Life in Tokyo is turning out to be a total bummer.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023 ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S FIFTY BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ONE OF PROSPECT'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 ONE OF DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR '5 INSPIRING READS TO KICK START THE NEW YEAR' 'Funny and very important' Chris van Tulleken, bestseling author of Ultra-Processed People 'Educates and emboldens' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Should revolutionise our understanding of human life' George Monbiot, bestselling author of Regenesis 'A vast and revolutionary history of female evolution' Sunday Times How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

Havana, Cuba in 1957 was the original gambling sin city. The haunt of the wealthy and famous offering gambling, sex, and drugs in an exotic Caribbean setting only 90 miles from Florida. Luxury casinos with five-star hotels, fine dining, and elaborate floorshows with scantily clad beautiful women. A corrupt dictatorship inviting investment by the American Mafia fuels Havana's hospitality industry success. Cuban-American Bart Landeira resigns from the CIA in disgust after working as a field operative following service in WWII. Havana is to be a new beginning. He returns to journalism and unexpectedly becomes involved with the family rum business. Reconnecting with his estranged father, he learns disturbing details of his father's involvement with the American Mafia and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landeira's father is a lawyer with a consulting practice in Tampa, Florida and Havana. The elder Landeira is also chief financial officer of the family corporation invested in sugar cane, tobacco, and rum. His father's consulting work centers on creating shell companies to enable money laundering and conceal Mafia investment in Havana. Batista's corrupt partnership with the Mafia fuels a growing leftist insurgency resulting in violent attempts at repression by the Cuban Army. Events interact to push Landeira into active political resistance against the Mafia and the Batista regime.

Von Altwerden war nie die Rede! Der humorvolle Liebesroman »Der Mann auf der Bettkante« von Evelyn Holst als eBook bei dotbooks. Na bravo! Ihre Glanzzeiten als Star-Journalistin sind eindeutig vorbei, denkt sich die Hamburgerin Marlene, als sie nur noch Reportagen wie »Sex im Altersheim« aufgedrückt bekommt. Und für die Recherche braucht sie nicht mal mehr vor die Tür gehen, denn mit ihrem Mann Hans-Joachim läuft in puncto Leidenschaft schon lange nichts mehr ... Unverhofft stößt sie jedoch auf eine brandheiße Story - und die führt mitten auf den Kiez: Fest entschlossen, sich mit einer »Sex and the City«-Kolumne neu zu erfinden, geht Marlene auf die Jagd nach pikanten Geheimnissen. Wer weiß, vielleicht könnte sie ja auch mit dem ein oder anderen Kniff ihre Ehe wiederbeleben? Doch ihr neugewonnenes Selbstbewusstsein scheint nicht nur auf Hans-Joachim Eindruck zu machen, sondern auch auf Schorse, den König vom Kiez ... Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: Der turbulente Beziehungsroman »Der Mann auf der Bettkante« von Evelyn Holst wird Fans von Susanne Fröhlich und Gaby Hauptmann begeistern. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks - der eBook-Verlag.

In questa nuova opera, Candace Bushnell, la famosissima autrice di Sex and the City, regala ai lettori un'arguta e divertente analisi della vita delle donne intorno ai cinquant'anni quando si ritrovano non più giovanissime, libere e single. Parlando di MILF, cougar, amore, sesso e divorzio, l'onesto e spassoso racconto in prima persona della Bushnell mette a nudo la verità che si nasconde dietro il romanticismo della mezza età.In Sex in the City... e adesso?, ambientato tra l'Upper East Side di Manhattan e un'elitaria enclave negli Hamptons conosciuta come The Village, l'autrice racconta, attraverso una riflessione profonda ma espressa con tono leggero e intrattenente, l'amore e le abitudini degli uomini e delle donne di mezza età mentre continuano a navigare nel mondo sempre più moderno delle relazioni di coppia. La Bushnell guarda all'amore e alla vita da tutti i punti di vista, matrimonio, figli e divorzio, analizzando anche le reali e numerose pressioni che le donne di oggi subiscono per mantenere la giovinezza a ogni costo e cercare di avere tutto.contributori LE Alessandra De Luca

A Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Glamour and one of them's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. "A novel that should become the touchstone of a whole generation." -Edmund White It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon-handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction-takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it's the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city's punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites' dogs. But it isn't until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Philip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him-and what he's capable of doing in order to get it for himself. A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan's In Tongues chronicles Gordon's perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Philip and Nicola's exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon's charm, manipulations, and growing ambition begin to escape his own control, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism, glinting intellect, and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own, In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion, further confirming Thomas Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood's joys and devastations.

In this special 20th anniversary edition, Lee Child introduces the Gold Dagger award-winning serial killer thriller that began the Number One bestselling crime series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV's much-loved Wire in the Blood. You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder... Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one's different - this one's on the loose. Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But soon Tony becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills where he has to use every ounce of his professional nerve to survive. A tense, beautifully written psychological thriller, The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.

In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir-including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures-British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the most influential bands of the Second British Invasion: New Order. 1980. Resurrected from the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis, New Order would become one most critically acclaimed and important bands of the decade and beyond. With their hits "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Perfect Kiss", and "Blue Monday"-the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time-Peter Hook and company quickly rose to the top of the alternative music scene. Widely regarded as the godfathers of electronic dance music, their sound would influence Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Postal Service, The Killers, and other acts that followed in their wake. Hook tells the complete, unvarnished story of New Order's founding and evolution; the band's experiences in the New York City club scene and rapid rise to international fame, its impact on house music, techno, and rave; and its eventual rancorous dissolution. Full of Hook's "gleefully profane" (Entertainment Weekly) humor and vivid, witty storytelling, Substance is the most important and certainly the most controversial part of his story, emanating with drugs, booze, and sex. Complete with timelines, discographies, gigographies and track-by-track analysis, and exclusive photographs and archival images from Hook's personal collection, it is the definitive, comprehensive history of New Order and a compelling snapshot of the '80s cultural scene in all its neon-hued glory.

In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir-including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures-British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the most influential bands of the Second British Invasion: New Order. 1980. Resurrected from the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis, New Order would become one most critically acclaimed and important bands of the decade and beyond. With their hits "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Perfect Kiss", and "Blue Monday"-the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time-Peter Hook and company quickly rose to the top of the alternative music scene. Widely regarded as the godfathers of electronic dance music, their sound would influence Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Postal Service, The Killers, and other acts that followed in their wake. Hook tells the complete, unvarnished story of New Order's founding and evolution; the band's experiences in the New York City club scene and rapid rise to international fame, its impact on house music, techno, and rave; and its eventual rancorous dissolution. Full of Hook's "gleefully profane" (Entertainment Weekly) humor and vivid, witty storytelling, Substance is the most important and certainly the most controversial part of his story, emanating with drugs, booze, and sex. Complete with timelines, discographies, gigographies and track-by-track analysis, and exclusive photographs and archival images from Hook's personal collection, it is the definitive, comprehensive history of New Order and a compelling snapshot of the '80s cultural scene in all its neon-hued glory.

'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief' Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls 'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth' Ay¿egül Savä, author of The Anthropologists 'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . . will go straight to your heart' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'A timeless writer . . . reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani' Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn 'A measured and gorgeous writer, in command of the senses in a way that makes the reader feel alive' New York Times Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance. Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal. Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe? What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?