A rambunctious, tragicomic absurd road trip novel about a wealthy Swiss-German mother and son

Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson

A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.

In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic over­tones of Flannery O'Connor at her most haunting.

Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Glorious. Wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed... that rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining' New York TimesWHY DO WE FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE WE DO?WHY DO WE VISIT OUR MISTAKES ON OUR CHILDREN?WHAT MAKES LIFE TRULY BEAUTIFUL?Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks...

Seven stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.

In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A middle-aged Russian countess who confronts sex and age in a Cotswold teashop. The fe...

Een verteller schrijft een brief aan de overleden dakloze Japanner Yasujiro. Hij blikt terug op zijn kennismaking met de gamer, als twintiger, in een kartonnen optrekje in het centrum van Tokio. Van daaruit ontdekte hij een onbekende wereld. Niets was zoals het leek: Yasujiro bietste stiekem een bestaan als dj en onderhield een relatie met de hermafrodiete Noh-actrice Akemi, die ook een verborgen leven leidde als jonge vroedvrouw.

De daad van het ter wereld komen is voor de verteller vooral e...

Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science, and AI is your guide to the business-related impact of artificial intelligence, data science and analytics, designed to prepare you for a managerial role. The text's vignettes and cases feature modern companies and non-profit organizations and illustrate capabilities, costs and justifications of BI across various business units. With coverage of many data science/AI applications, you'll explore tools, then learn from various organizations' exper...

A riveting and revealing exploration of the world created by computer algorithms and its impact on individuals, from the workers across the globe who feed artificial intelligence systems with data to the shocking, often mysterious impact of algorithms on our own behaviour, as consumers and citizens.