Luster

Jeśli ktoś spędził w korporacji choć jeden dzień życia, śledząc przygody Cavii, od razu rozpozna znajome klimaty… Cavia wspólnie z Kim – jedyną serdeczną koleżanką, Stellą – szefową HR-u, zwanego rzeźnią, Ruudem – pastwiącym się nad innymi szefem Finansów, i Royem – recepcjonistą gejem, mają wspólny open space i tworzą swoisty biotop, w którym słabe ogniwo nie ma szans na przeżycie. Do tego towarzystwa jak ulał pasuje introwertyczny nerd Harm-Jan z działu IT, od lat pielęgnujący tamagotchi. Tam właśnie, przy oknie z widokiem na ulicę i w otoczeniu ulubionych przyborów biurowych Cavia odnajduje swoje z pozoru bezpieczne miejsce. To korporacyjne bezpieczeństwo okazuje się, podobnie jak szczerość relacji międzyludzkich, jedynie ułudą. Ułu...

'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books 'The air trembled, gold and green and clear, at the edges of the forest' A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival. This is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissect...

In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of Greek mythology's most enduring stories. 'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of Circe Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures and resourceful witches. In this telling the female characters take centre stage as Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries. In Charlotte Higgins's thrilling new interpretation of these ancient stories, their tales combine to form a dazzling, sweeping epic of storytelling. With a series of original drawings by Chris Ofili.

A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret HistoryOliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago.As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spi...