"I laughed so hard and uncontrollably I could hardly breathe. Reading this on public transport is not a good idea."--Penthouse magazine

"In the dominion of social networking and electronic communication, David Thorne has become the king of biting sarcasm." --Thane Burnett, editor, Sun Media

We are more than pleased to announce that we now officially handle rights to David Thorne's books

• The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius
• I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs. The Unpublished Emails.

David Thorne is an Australian humourist, satirist, and Internet personality. His work has been featured on the BBC, the Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 for an email exchange in which he attempts to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The exchange spread virally via email and social networking sites, leading to a surge of visitors to his website 27b/6 (27bslash6). 27b/6 features a collection of humorous emails and articles from Thorne's life. These and additional essays appear in Thorne's book, The Internet is a Playground. Published by Penguin Group and released on 28 April 2011, the book debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller list.

A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer

Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.

Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry with her her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself?

The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane’s hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn’t be. Here is a new writer who comes to us fully formed, working wonders with language, renewing our faith in the power of fiction to describe the mysterious workings of our minds.

Foreign sales to date: Hamish Hamilton-Penguin Australia (Australia/New Zealand), Sceptre/Hodder (UK & BC), Einaudi (Italy), DVA (Germany), Olivier Cohen (France), Lumen (Spain), Meulenhoff (Netherlands), Gyldendal (Norway), China Times (Taiwan), Achuzat Bayit (Israel), China CITIC (China), Muza (Poland), Sigongsa (Korea), Angle Editorial (Catalan), Paseka (Czech Republic), Bertrand (Brazil), Hayakawa (Japan), Atticus-Azbooka (Russia).

The Queen of Burgers has drawn together her tastiest recipes for the ultimate between-the-buns experience. Whether you're cooking for one or for one hundred in your own backyard burger bash, The Book of Burger has you covered for bringing family and friends together for the love of burgers! Please 'em all—big and small—with everything from burgers to sandwiches, hot dogs, fries, sliders, and sloppies, and so much more.

Start with Rach's "Big Spicy Mac," tempting you from the cover, or go with the heavenly French Onion Burgers. And if beef isn't your thing, there are plenty of chicken, pork, salmon, veggie, and lamb patties. Want a mind-blowing sandwich? Whip up the BEST one Rachael has ever made: the 7-Hour Smoked Brisket Sandwich with Smoky BBQ Sauce. Rachael even shares her legendary pickle recipe and her own homemade burger blend. Want a fun, cute, tasty bite-size treat to pass around? Rachael is slider obsessed and you will be, too: try the Mexican Pulled Pork Sliders.

Rachael Ray is a wildly successful career as a syndicated TV star, an iconic Food Network TV personality, bestselling cookbook author, founder and editorial director of her own lifestyle magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and founder of the Yum-o! organization.

It's a SMART BOOK: Twelve original videos (directly accessible by links throughout the text) make The Book of Burger a truly multimedia experience and a smart book that celebrates the infinite possibilities of everybody's favorite food.

PAPER AIRPLANES is Christina McDowell’s Kafkaesque before-and-after memoir. Innocently living a life of privilege in her childhood and teens, it all came crashing down when her dad, a Belfort associate practicing a similar form of criminal investing, is sent to prison. But this is only the beginning. Once behind bars, Tom Prousalis continued to lie, cheat and steal while his family fell to pieces. PAPER AIRPLANES is not Christina’s story alone. It is just one of many that has resulted from recent Wall Street rapaciousness. It is a classic father/daughter story, a cautionary tale of starting over, and a younger, more innocent Blue Jasmine.

It wasn’t until The Wolf of Wall Street was released that Christina McDowell made the connection between her father and Jordan Belfort. She sat down and wrote an opinion piece for LA Weekly titled “An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself,” in which she urged people not to support the film, reminding citizens that crimes such as Belfort’s and her father’s have victims. And those victims deserve a voice. Within hours, her piece went viral, stirring an international debate and becoming one of the most controversial opinion pieces ever written about a Hollywood film. She received thousands of emails from strangers around the world who told her their personal stories about being defrauded and lied to, and how they agreed that the American value system of glorifying criminals had become unbearable. And, for the first time in five years, Christina heard from her estranged father, not in a personal note but in an open letter on an obscure blog. His message? “You need to apologize to Marty and Leo.”