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Celebrating seventy-five years of the Moomins, Stories From Moominvalley is a beautiful collection of three stories based on Tove Jansson's beloved and classic chapter books. Sensitively adapted for a younger audience by Alex Haridi and Cecilia Davidsson, it's both perfect as a gift and a must-have for fans of Tove Jansson’s enchanting world.Join Moomintroll, his charming family and his eclectic band of friends on a series of adventures in a picturesque valley where anything ...

'The Vintage Way is a lesson in quiet curation...this is thoughtful, atmospheric interiors inspo with longevity at its heart.' Fabric'Sarah has a sharp eye for curating vintage Scandinavian design, and this book - filled with inspiring home tours - will encourage you to look beyond the beaten path to create a more personal home.' Frida Ramstedt, author of The Interior Design Handbook'A must-read for anyone who loves vintage and second-hand treasures... Whether you're a season...

Take a tasty trip from the Med to the Middle East with Sabrina Ghayour's effortless creations - Mail on Sunday YOU MagazineA brand new collection of inspiring recipes from Sunday Times bestselling author Sabrina Ghayour - each designed to be as easy as possible. Every recipe in Persiana Easy make irresistible Middle Eastern flavours simple. From midweek meals and traybakes to pastries and sweet treats, every recipe is accompanied by a photograph to make beautiful cookery easi...

Bestselling author Emma Porter has teamed up with world-renowned diabetes expert Professor Roy Taylor to create meals that balance health needs with varied, enjoyable recipes to enable you to lose weight, reverse your type 2 diabetes and stay diabetes-free for life. Recipes include a broad range of satisfying dishes from high-protein shakes and soups to 800-calorie plates that follow Professor Roy Taylor's world renowned 3-step plan.  This is the perfect go-to cookbook for an...

This ingenious collection of 75 cocktails made directly inside the bottle to store in the freezer means your drink is ready when you are.There is a time and a place for meticulous home mixology. But more often than not, what we really want is a shortcut to our favourite cocktail that's at the ready whenever we want it. Pour. Sip. Simple!Build your drinks in batches right in the spirit bottle, then keep them on call in the freezer for whenever the mood strikes. That means a pe...

The Empire Strikes Back, the sequel film to 1977's Star Wars, is regularly voted the Greatest Film of All Time. It was also the first time Yoda, a Grand Master of the Jedi Order and the most powerful Jedi in its history, made his awesome first appearance. Since then, the two-foot-two, green alien humanoid of unknown origins has become one of the franchises most enduring and popular characters appearing in six of the nine sequel trilogies, as well as the acclaimed Clone Wars a...

The new gothic fantasy sensation from SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Lindsey Kelk.‘Your new obsession’ CosmopolitanYOU’LL WANT TO BE ONE. UNTIL YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS.After sixteen-year-old Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious.But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret.When Emily meets the al...

Moscow, 1934.Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones.Anton Belkin is an Investigator at the Procuracy, a sensitive job at a dangerous moment on the road to the Show Trials. He is als...

When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laar family.They're cold, rich people. They own the camp. And it's happened to them before.Fourteen years ago their little boy, Bear, vanished without a trace.Two children lost to the same wilderness.Is it a tragedy… or a crime?

IS IT EVER A GOOD IDEA TO GO ON HOLIDAY WITH FRIENDS?Best friends Darcy, Camilla and Kate have just landed in the Maldives for a luxury holiday. They can't wait for ten days of scorching sun, crystal-clear waters and white-sand beaches.But against this idyllic backdrop, long-buried secrets come to light one by one, and the darker side of female friendship floats to the surface.After all, when you’ve known each other forever, you’re bound to hold a grudge or two - and the bet ...

Dress up your favourite pop diva with this press and play paper doll book. Featuring 12 H-O-T-T-O-G-O looks – from the all-green Lady Liberty moment at the 2024 Gov Ball, to the jawdropping vintage Jean-Paul Gautier Degas-inspired gown on the Grammy’s red carpet – Dress Up Chappell takes you through the very best of the beloved Mid-West Princess’ fashion moments. With beautifully illustrated, press-out outfits and a sturdy Chappell mannequin, this paper doll book is the ultim...

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s two first novels. Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind. Haunted by memories of the ...

'Deliciously dark, razor-sharp, and unapologetically wrong in all the right ways' C.J. Skuse, author of SWEETPEAHe wasn’t afraid of me. That was his first mistake.Read the cult word-of-mouth hit readers are obsessed with:‘Such an incredible read!’‘Holy hell this book was fun!’‘Included all the things I like in fiction…vigilantism/revenge, cold, calculating women, themes of obsession, queer desire’‘Amazing twists!’‘You guys NEED TO READ THIS!’Scarlett Clark is an exceptional E...

Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown's brilliant new thriller, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, available for pre-order now.The astonishing number 1 global bestseller, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon.Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Broo...

PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY'James ...

Those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . .After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for anothersixty-eight years... and panic sets in.They quickly decide...

Sometimes pretending to be someone else helps you figure out who you really are…Freshly divorced and in need of a job – Kate Elliot’s life needs a rewrite. So when she unearths an old letter from her ex-talent agent, Jojo Francisco – she takes it as a sign from the universe to brush off her old acting skills and become someone else entirely.Meanwhile, Charlie Francisco is back from LA, leaving his dumpster fire of a life behind. He may be well over his head in filling the sho...

It’s time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.A serial killer is taking out America’s finest legals minds, and Alex Cross is called to investigate their brutal murders.But during a dangerous mission to track down the killer, his wife, Bree, and best friend, John Sampson, go missing.To save the people he loves most, Cross has only three goals.Number one: Find Bree and John.Number two: Escape.Number three: Surviv...

Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novellike no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationYahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.Her days are measured out making elaborate religious paperc...

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked out?‘A cause for celebration’GEORGE SAUNDERS‘A stunner of a debut’NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON‘Exhilaratingly good’ KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an all...

Rhetoric once sat at the centre of elite education. Alexander the Great, Shakespeare and Martin Luther King, Jr. used it to build empires, write deathless literature and inspire democracies. Here, Heinrichs shows us how these persuasive tools, invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero, and honed over more than three thousand years, can sway your most difficult audience: yourself.Illustrated with examples from history and pop culture – Winston Churchill, Iron Man, Dolly Pa...

What if we could stop cancer in its tracks, prevent cardiovascular disease, lose weight at will and reverse the effects of ageing? With new developments in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics, it might all be possible sooner than you think.In Hacking Humanity, technology journalist Lara Lewington takes us to the cutting edge of scientific research to demystify how new innovations are transforming medicine for the better. Drawing us into the science behind the w...

What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myths and age-old stereotypes of adolescence to reveal the reasons why teens behave the way they do.Above all, Foulkes shows that adolescents have an ex...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor’s surgery. ‘I want an abortion,’ she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that day will change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. A mysterious curse causes all the men to die by the age of forty-one, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu...