Aline Azoulay-Pacvon Books

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan’s life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan’s father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families—sharing equally complex and addled histories—will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home… But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made—in Richard Yates’ haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.

The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown Love blooms in the darkest days...

The story of a year in the lives of Charlotte, Karen and Nan, none of whom can quite believe how things have turned out. Why is it all so difficult? Why do the most ridiculous mistakes have the most disastrous consequences? When are you too young to be a mother? Both hilarious and wise, it is a clear-eyed look at motherhood-and childhood-in its many guises, from the moment the condom breaks to the moment you file for divorce or, more optimistically, from the moment of your baby's first cry to the moment you realise that there are as many sorts of mother as there are children, and that love sometimes is the most important thing of all.

There's nothing normal about a man loving a woman. Meet Simon, early thirties, a travel agent going nowhere, looking for love in all the wrong places. Simon says his big problem is that he only falls in love with his best friends - the rest of the world doesn't compare. Simon says his great gift is that he understands the workings of a woman's mind. Simon even says he knows what women want. Simon says a lot of things. When Simon finally does find love, it's where he least expects it, and to his great surprise and relief, she feels the same way. His new passion changes everything: how Simon looks at the world, how the world sees him, what he thinks about himself. He's a stranger in a strange land with a lot to learn. But why does he have to practice gently licking sugar of the top of a cappuccino? What's all that about? An original and comic angle on how men love, by turns startlingly earthy and unexpectedly touching, this is a tremendous debut novel from an outstanding new voice in contemporary popular fiction.