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There were too many of them. Lucille was nowhere Dave could see, and only a faint mournful sigh reached him from where she lay.... It was time to die, the heroes journey over. New York is on fire, the streets are overrun, and the Demon Horde is feasting. With the world's greatest city in chaos, all eyes are on Dave Hooper, the superhero destined to save mankind. But hero or not, Dave is just one man, and he's short of allies.

These hilarious tales of urban terror reveal the dark truth hidden behind three seemingly innocent words - a phrase that you have seen a hundred times before but will never view in the same light again - WANTED TO SHARE. John Birmingham's rendering of a life in share houses will leave you laughing, cringing and reminiscing about your own brushes with the mad, bad residents of flat mate hell.

When travel blogger Sophie West flees London and her toxic ex for a fresh start in Santorini, the last thing she expects is to be mugged at the port—or rescued by a mysterious artist whose eyes hold secrets deeper than the Aegean Sea. Ethan Carter sketches tourists for pocket change, but Sophie glimpses the dangerous man hidden beneath his easy smile. When she stumbles into a high-stakes art auction involving Russian criminals and a lost Leonardo da Vinci, Ethan's carefully constructed new life comes apart.

When a lethal spy meets a gentle Viking scholar in the Scottish Highlands, sparks fly—and so do bullets. Samantha "Smack" McAvoy is very good at two things: eliminating threats and staying emotionally unavailable. Fresh off a mission gone wrong, she's supposed to be healing in a remote Scottish inn. Instead, she finds herself protecting Finn Colpher—a gorgeous, book-obsessed academic who quotes medieval poetry to his golden retriever and apologizes to furniture.

A son's homage to his father. John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep grief.

She's ice-cold precision. He's stupidly brave and reckless as hell. Their fake marriage might just get them killed... or lead them to love. Elite Agent de terrain Justine Dupleix has spent five years of training perfecting every detail, following every protocol, and absolutely despising her rival Ash Durham. They've always competed to be the best recruit the Agency has ever produced, and the laid-back New Zealander represents everything she's not: impulsive, irreverent, and impossibly successful at winging it when her careful plans should work better.

Humanity’s last surviving heroes must protect a shattered civilization from an all-conquering enemy in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars. “[The Shattered Skies] is a delightful military space adventure that runs at full tilt.”—Booklist The Sturm, an empire of “species purists...

John Birmingham ci fa scendere nell’inferno delle case coabitate, in cui ogni girone si rivela più allucinato e incredibile e ci racconta, a venti anni dalla sua prima uscita, che non è cambiato poi molto. La necessità di condividere un appartamento per sostenerne i costi è ancora parte integrante della vita di molti giovani, e non più giovani. Torna in libreria un cult della generazione anni Novanta, un libro e un film che sono rimasti nella memoria collettiva di milioni di persone.

A crew of intrepid heroes faces off once and for all against an enemy intent on destroying humanity—and the galaxy—in this exhilarating conclusion to The Cruel Stars Trilogy. When the Sturm, a group of “species purists,” returned from the far reaches of Dark Space to eliminate any human...