I've left the grips of one king to fall into the hands of another.Rip's name is whispered in taverns and street corners throughout the kingdoms.But as I get to know him, I realise he is not what he seems...He is Fae.Part of the powerful and magical people who abandoned this world hundreds of years ago.But here one stands before me. And when he turns his onyx eyes upon me, I fall captive.For an entirely different reason.As his army marches towards a battle with the king I once...
This is the story of King Midas...Or that's what we were always told. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, his golden touched girl.I'm kept locked away. For my safety, I'm told. No one can get in. Apart from him.But when political upheaval becomes strife in our kingdom, I am sent with the royal court to be with my King.And everything I know starts to change. My love for Midas is challenged, my trust is broken. Everything I knew about him was wrong.We are told it'...
Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man’s body is found on the tracks. With only two leads – a distinctive accent and a single word, ‘kameda’ – Senior Inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle.Setting aside his beloved bonsai and haikus, he must cross Japan in search of answers, from Osaka to Akita, accompanied by junior detective Yoshimura. At each new town, they encounter traces of the avant-garde Nouveau Group...
One king caged my body.Another has caged my mind.War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged.There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out.Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound.Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will alwa...
In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications ...
Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous gift: witchcraft.But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father protects, Medea sees her opportunity to escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounc...
Why did he invite them? Why did they come? A hotel dedicated to the Master of Suspense – round-the-clock film screenings, movie memorabilia in every room, and an aviary of fifty crows. Owner Alfred Smettle invites his five closest friends from college to stay. He hasn’t spoken to any of them in sixteen years. Alfred calls it a reunion. Really, it’s a last chance.But Alfred is not the only one with an agenda. And it’s only a matter of time before things get worse. After all, n...
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all – the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her response? An indecent proposal…Written by the first disab...
Having a seat at the table doesn't mean that your voice gets heard. Knowing something is wrong doesn't make it easy to speak up. But this silencing - intentional or not - has profound consequences on our work and life. It blocks talent, skews decisions and causes teams and individuals to fail. So what if there was another way?Drawing on her experience as a lecturer at Harvard Law School and as a Managing Partner at one of the world's leading leadership development companies, ...
Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturall...
'Bewitchingly cozy and deliciously queer' S.A. MACLEAN'Wildly original, and impossibly charming' LANA HARPER'Brimming with tender longing and heart' NADIA EL-FASSI__________A delightful queer cottagecore romantasy full of friends-to-lovers romance, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic.Yael is the only heir to one of the wealthiest families in the realm, destined for a life of power and privilege. But that’s not the life they want, and so, chafing at their f...
** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **'Insightful and heartfelt' GLAMOUR'Easy to inhale' GUARDIAN'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT, author of THE VANISHING HALF *** New York City, 1999. Lily Chen is an unpaid intern, pursuing the American Dream, when she falls for a young financier – and the life of luxury his vast fortune promises. Everything she wants seems to finally be within reach. But deep down, she knows that her ambitious scientist mother, Mei, imagined so much more for...
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The ...
THE NEW LUKE CARLTON THRILLER.BBC Security Correspondent FRANK GARDNER'S thrillers are . . .'Fast, taut, tense, accurate.' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Utterly authentic.' DAILY MAIL'Enthralling, intelligent.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Nerve-shredding.' TONY PARSONS'Heart-in-mouth.' i-NEWSPAPER'Compulsively readable.' RADIO TIMES __________________________________________The world is on high alert. Across the Strait from Taiwan, China’s armed forces appear to be readying for war. Could the Peopl...
‘Joyful, exuberant, and crackling with adventure.' STUART TURTON‘A clever and beautiful novel about the power of books.’ SUNYI DEAN‘Full of magic, wonder and heart.’ ANITA FRANK‘A magical, mesmerising adventure from the very first page.’ A. J. WEST ----------------------------------Because some doors should never be opened.New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a f...
Without the injuries, the man's face would have been unremarkable, fairly young and probably quite cheerful. Even in death, there were traces of something open and honest in his expression . . . That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private. It did not really seem dead. It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away. ...
Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly...
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant'...
Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, killed a man she said raped her in her own home, but was denied the protection of a self-defense argument.Angoori Dahariya led a gang in Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to avenging victims of domestic abuse.Cicek Mustafa Zibo fought in a thousands-strong all-female militia that battled ISIS in Syria.Can women’s acts of vengeance help to create lasting change in their communities, or will they ultimately hurt their cause? ...
‘A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.’ Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAIThe promise of the internet has been stolen.Over the last decade, a handful of giant companies like Facebook and Google have seized control of the web – sapping its dynamism and taking its profits for themselves.But there is a way to take it back.Here, a leading Silicon Valley investor argues that blockchains – the radically free and democratic new type of software design that u...
The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-changing book reveals what really works, and how it can help you.Spurred into researching this topic following his own journey from breakdown to recovery, award-winning writer and broadcaster Horatio Clare speaks to experts from across the system to show how to put together the best treatment plan for you or a loved one.Whether your...
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed ‘anti-gender ideology movements’ dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization – and even ‘man’ himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish r...
Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. Anaximander's legacy includes the revolutionary idea that the earth floats in a void, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, that animals evolved, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking...
