From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, a transfixing psychological thriller about the point at which the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, start to blur.[...]

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened wh[...]

"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in "The""New Yorker." "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unit[...]

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of "May We Be Forgiven.".. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence w[...]

Richard Novak is a modern day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, except his trainer, nutritionist and housekeeper. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire t[...]

'This novel starts at maximum force -- and then it really gets going. I can't remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing.' Salman Rus[...]

A macabre and thrilling look at the vagaries of desire, and the terrible consequences of acting upon it.[...]

Strange, smart and sexy short stories from one of America's most brilliant contemporary writers.