'Written in big, beautiful prose that expands throughout the novel and leaves the reader full and satisfied … Leila Mottley’s grasp of human nature is unmatched' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS-From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling. Adela, Emory, and Simone – three young women bound by chance, motherhood, and defiance. When Adela Woods is sent to her grandmother’s house in a forgotten Florida beach town to have her baby in secret, she expe...
PRE-ORDER THIS EXPLOSIVE SEQUEL TO NEVERTHORN, A SWEEPING ROMANTASY PERFECT FOR FANS OF ZODIAC ACADEMY SERIES . . . -Still reeling from the betrayal that shattered her at Neverthorn, Harlow Daygon is in hiding. Again. Magically disguised and barely holding it together, she and the rest of House Phoenix are masquerading as students at Heathermoor, Neverthorn s mysterious Scottish sister school.The castle looks like a fairytale on acid, the Fae here wield wild magic like it s a...
A Financial Times best book of 2025'This is the guide you've been waiting for'Steve Chen, co-founder, YouTube‘Masterfully reveals how to combine the rigour of data with the nuance of personal experience - and make better decisions in every aspect of life’Annie Duke, author of Thinking in BetsYou Already Know reveals how to harness your intuition - your brain’s natural blend of experience and data - to make smarter decisions and achieve more. Drawing on groundbreaking research...
'A searing, beautiful book' KILEY REID, bestselling author of SUCH A FUN AGESusan ‘Zuzu’ Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder ‘what if'.What if she had chosen to live with her father instead of her mother after their divorce? To pursue art over law? And, most importantly, to pursue her feelings for he...
A six-figure offer. A family mystery to solve. A town of buried secrets. When Auto mechanic Sawyer Taft's estranged grandmother offers her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season, Sawyer's first instinct is to run a mile. But then she realizes her grandmother's offer might mean solving the biggest mystery of her life - her father's identity. So she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses and even bigger...
In this practical guide, psychotherapist and bestselling author Anna Mathur helps you understand what your anger and irritability is really telling you so you can catch it sooner, calm faster and repair more deeply. You didn’t used to be like this. The sharp words, the slammed drawers, the guilt that follows. You tell yourself to hold it together, but somehow, you keep finding yourself back here. Anna knows that moment well. One evening, hot and exhausted in her kitche...
‘A moving, essential book . . . Nobody writes about Nature with more beauty and grace than Jay Griffiths’ Brian EnoFrom celebrated author Jay Griffiths comes a unique and heartfelt insight into the healing nature of our relationship with animalsAll animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history, and Indigenous knowledge. Original, playful and wise, How Animals Heal Us explores how animals ...
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and f...
Leo thought he knew his wife. Until she disappeared. Leo Kennedy has it all: money, looks, the perfect marriage and luxury homes in the UK and South Africa. But when his wife Addison goes missing, his immaculate life detonates. 48 hours later, Leo arrives at their safari lodge to retrace her steps. Only there's no sign of Addison. Instead, Leo is met with a scene of blood and chaos, and on the wall a missing poster, with his face, his name and his details. His wife may ...
Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a better ally, UNMASKED will help you make sense of it all, and put the power in your hands.''This book will change lives! A cracking read and a must for folks with brains who do things differently'' Heidi Mavir, author of Your Child is Not Broken''I loved it. I''m so impressed by Ellie''s courage and wisdom, this book is comforting and clever, but most of all kind'' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable and C...
*** PRE-ORDER THE THRILLING BOOK FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR BEA FITZGERALD NOW ***Nadine Heywood is determined to be the best actress in the world.Getting into London s top drama school is just the first step. But there, Nadine comes head-to-head with Harper Moore. Beautiful, brilliant, effortlessly charming, she is everything Nadine isn t. And immediately Nadine see s her as more than just her competition.As their worlds collide against the glitz of Hollywood, they can no longe...
'A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other' Jhumpa Lahiri'Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating' Colm Toibin'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I’ve changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I’ve erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They’ve been the best ten years of my life.' A son is celebrating a bittersweet anniversary. It is a decade sin...
PRE ORDER THE NAIL-BITING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Claire Douglas is a class act - she never, ever disappoints' LISA JEWELL When Imogen inherits a country house near Bath, she thinks it’s a mistake. She last saw its owner, reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, sixteen years ago, during a tragic summer which she’s never forgotten. But a chance discovery in the study leads Imogen to believe Dorothea left her a secret message.And when rumours begin to s...
A GLITTERING NEW COSY MYSTERY STARRING EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE DRAG QUEEN TURNED AMATEUR SLEUTH, MISTY DIVINE... 'Misty Divine has me holding my breath as if I were right there, investigating with her. She's the superhero the world needs right now and forever' DRAG RACE'S JUJUBEE‘With sequins shining and danger lurking backstage, this is a murder mystery where identity matters as much as motive’ RuPaul on Murder In The Dressing Room ---‘Listen to me, Misty.You’re in danger . . ....
The unputdownable love story spanning continents, years and families, from the Sunday Times bestselling author – the perfect holiday read for fans of Eve Chase, Lucinda Riley, and Kate Morton. ‘Immersive, captivating, utterly transporting’ STACEY HALLS‘Filled with intricate detail, this book will entrance and move you. Harriet Evans is a master storyteller’ KATIE FFORDE‘The very definition of escape’ VERONICA HENRY‘Magnificent.It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story a...
Nadine Heywood is determined to be the best actress in the world. But only one thing stands in her way…Getting into London’s top drama school is Nadine’s first step. But there, she comes head-to-head with Harper.Beautiful, brilliant, effortlessly charming, she is everything Nadine isn’t. Too quickly, their rivalry turns obsessive. Wherever their careers take them, Nadine and Harper are pulled back into each other’s orbit - drawn together by jealousy, ambition, and a temptatio...
'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. She is enchanted by the visits to France that follow, but they come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Finding themselves thrust into uncertainty and surrounded by well-meaning strangers, Zoë and her mother must learn how...
In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In ‘War of the Clowns’, Mozambique’s Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her i...
From New York Times bestselling author K.M. Moronova comes a delicious arranged-marriage romantasy.In a world ravaged by war and ruled by vengeful gods, love is both a weapon and a curse…Haunted by her role in a massacre that reignited an ancient war, demigod knight Alira is cursed to relive her kingdom's destruction - dying again and again at the hands of the Blood Knight, a ruthless demon commander. But when the demons propose a peace marriage to end the bloodshed, Alira vo...
On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country's increasingly compromised role in Am...
'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the Kindertransport: orphans of the war, and strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived.Now, in adulthood, they have been unable to separate. They share a successful business, but they are also bound by the shaky foundations of their own pasts. Hartmann’s carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about, while Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remem...
Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels spends most of her year chasing brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead.When a prestigious nature magazine announces a storm-cover contest, Sloane knows winning could be her best chance to break into landscape photography.The last thing she needs is distraction in the form of reckless storm-chasing legend “Wild Wes” Talbot. Her close, personal frenemy for a decade, Wes is also the man to beat.Sloane...
Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps in this spellbinding historical romance blending mystery, art, romance and time travel'A captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.' Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of Swordcatcher'An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel.' Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love'Beautiful and bittersweet time travel fantasy' Publishers' Weekly_____‘Have you travelled a long way?’ she asked carefully.A smile twitched at ...
‘Dazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. This is a once-in-a-generation contribution’ Naomi Klein‘America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.’ Irish TimesThe story of the United States’ unique identity was forged facing south – no less than Latin America’s was stamped by the colossus to the north.America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest to the coups and revolutions o...
I have one shot to build a better life—not just for me, but for my little brother still stuck in the dump I escaped from. Now that I’ve gotten to Sovereign Kings University, I have to make it worth it. Keep my head down, ignore the rich kids, and graduate.At least that was my plan before I busted a hockey player’s knee and became public enemy number one. Now the team’s golden boy captain, Alexander, leads the charge against me. Kane, the brooding defenseman never misses a cha...
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even with 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way, involving a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his family's past which throws up some surprising revelations.A story for our times, Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, sur...
Rookie driver Skye is finally finding her groove at Revolution Racing. That is, until her new boss walks in and nearly makes her forget how to breathe.Denver Adams is the charming team principle, and the mystery man Skye spent one unforgettable night with four years ago.He’s under strict orders to keep it professional and get the team on the podium this season. She can’t risk her career or her hard-won place on the grid. But between stolen glances in the paddock and late-nigh...
1950's Italy1957: The summer of innocence Amongst the lemon trees, Rafaella Parisi impatiently waits for the summer visitors to arrive in her small fishing village on the coast of Puglia. She may be dating Fon Giannelli, but there is one person she longs to see: Cosimo – son of the wealthy Franchetti family.1958: The summer everything changes After a devastating accident at the lavish Franchetti villa, Rafa makes a vow that changes the course of all their futures . . .1961: T...
The four of us. Under one roof. It’s going to be one hot summer.Summer Pham has a vibrant life. Family and friends she would drop anything for, a cute apartment and her dream Vietnamese bakery. Until a burst water pipe and a unanimous vote at the Starlight Grove town meeting sees her sharing a packhouse with the Beaufort pack brothers.Lucien, Mercer and Jae are only here for the summer.But as Summer’s building goes through its repairs, she finds her explosive chemistry with t...
'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN Discover the next book in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series... now the inspiration for the original series CROSS on Prime Video starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross. Alex Cross thought serial killer Gary Soneji was dead and buried.But when a hidden cabin reveals a stash of gruesome trophies and diaries, Cross realises the Spider's evil influence has spread wider than he ever thought possible.The chilling truth soon becomes clear: C...
The gripping mystery thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author behind the Netflix sensation and TV series Fool Me Once. David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three year old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes one night in the worst possible way. David awakes to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son's. And while he knows he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts...
Fourteen impossible mysteries from the masters of the Golden Age detective story. ‘Lock your door and enjoy’ – KirkusLocked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They present the reader with a seemingly impossible crime – a body found inside a windowless room that’s been locked from the inside, for example – before revealing an ingenious and satisfying solution.This unique collection features fourteen of the most puzzling locked-room mysteries fro...
First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.‘A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale’ – Daily HeraldThe luxurious Transcontinental Express, a locomotive journeying coast-to-coast across the United States, is the height of 1930s technology and sophistication. Alongside carriages for dining, drinking and dancing, there’s even a swimming pool car. And it’s there, just one day into the journey, that the corpse of a banker is...
Erik and Livia are forced to be worlds apart. She is now under the captivity of their merciless enemies who see her as weak, a pawn in the kingdom's wicked games. But they're no match for the clever Ever Queen. As she lets them think they've won, she navigates a foreign court, searching for a way to be reunited once more with Erik. All while he fights his way back into the arms of the woman who claimed his heart and soul, Erik promises himself that the world will be littered ...
A cosy murder mystery in which a cat helps solve the crime, this is a forgotten Golden Age classic.‘Expert sleuthing’ - The Saturday ReviewBennet Farr was the richest and most hated man in town, so when he is found dead, the list of those with a grudge grows endless. There’s the librarian, the journalist, the schoolteacher, and Bennet’s own son, who was struck off the family inheritance just days before Bennet’s death.How do catch a killer when everyone in town has a motive? ...
'You will love Harry Sidebottom’s magnificent, blood-drenched study of the life of a gladiator … Was I not entertained? I absolutely was.' Dominic Sandbrook, The Times'Grippingly original' Tom Holland***A TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR***In ancient Rome, a single day could decide a gladiator’s fate. Follow in their footsteps with bestselling author Harry Sidebottom.Take a seat at the feast on the eve of the games and watch as the men marked for combat enjoy their final ...
In the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world’s richest and most powerful union. How did this new nation come to dominate global culture, economics, politics and warfare? Informed by years of close observation, bestselling author Simon Jenkins follows the extraordinary journey of America from before independence through revolution to Civil War, its emergence onto the international stage and the turbulence o...
Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. We achieve these identities but want others to imitate us. We disagree with those whose identities contradict ours – leading to polarization and even violence. And yet when they thu...
"We are living in the departure lounge," said Ralph Greenwood, "and flights leave with monotonous regularity." So when another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening in December, no-one is very surprised – not until the results of a routine post-mortem reveal something extraordinary.Police Sergeant DC Smith and his team have to tread carefully as they investigate what took place, and Smith himself has to confront some difficul...
In the peace and tranquillity of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith and it isn’t unusual that the call is from Kings Lake Central police station; what is unusual is the fact that he seems to be the subject of an investigation rather than taking part in one.What can the links be between a prisoner’s violent death in another county, the disappearance of two teenagers and the highest profile case in Kings ...
When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explanations: it was a tragic accident or a suicide.It does not take Smith and his detectives long, however, to discover that James Bell led a double life back onshore in Kings Lake -- a life complicated enough to make him at least one dangerous enemy. Before the case can be unravelled, Smith must get a new team working together; Waters and Murray are still there but one of Wilson’s m...
'In this moving and revelatory book, Anthony Delaney gives a voice to women and men whose lives have been written out of history. At heart, Queer Georgians is about the triumph of love in adversity' Hallie Rubenhold‘A fascinating story, beautifully told . . . I was utterly enthralled from the first page to the last’ Tracy Borman ‘Anthony Delaney is a superb public historian’ Dan SnowIn this dazzling work of restorative history, Dr Anthony Delaney has traced the stories of peo...
A Book of the Year for The New YorkerIt’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams — just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion shows, and East Village hotel rooms; eventually, finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco.What emerges is ...
A MAN ON THE EDGE.A WORLD ON THE BRINK.A TRUTH THAT COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING.In 2050, investigative journalist Marcus Tully is still grieving the loss of his wife and unborn child in the deadly heatwave that struck the Persian Gulf ten years ago.Now, the world is both burning and drowning, and the decision has been taken to elect a global leader to steer humanity through the worsening climate apocalypse. The final two candidates are ex-US president Lockwood, and Solomon, an A...
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious reb...
Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfast.By the time he went back to work, the investigation was well underway. “It’s not my case” he says more than once, and he really doesn’t need it to be; he has enough to think about as it is. But going around the Norfolk countryside dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, speaking to the local farmers and the Brothers of St Francis from Abbeyfields, Smith begins to suspect that t...
Gertie Bickerstaff writes happily-ever-afters for a living… or she did, until her own love life fell apart. Now her ex is thriving, her deadline is looming, and she can’t write a single word.The last thing Gertie needs is more drama—like waking up to find a confused and rugged cowboy on her sofa. And not just any cowboy, but River Oakley, the villain from her unfinished novel. Somehow very real… and very shirtless.River wants to go home. Gertie wants her life back. So they st...
In Oru L'ore is the only one without agbára - the ability to harness power from the sun. And must conceal it from everyone. Including her best friend, Alawani.But when the gods declare Alawani an Alufáa, he must be stripped of his power in a brutal trial likely to kill him. Unwilling to bear his death, Lóre vows to rescue him.But in a desperate attempt to channel agbára an icy magic pours from her hands; a power she learns originated from a forbidden, secret land beyond the w...
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.In this powerf...
They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight and find themselves thrust into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. They have come here from all walks of life, but Dora, Beatrice, Otto and M...
Dubliners, Joyce's first major work and written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. From 'The Sisters', a vivid portrait of childhood faith and guilt, to 'Araby', a timeless evocation of the inexplicable yearnings of adolescence, to 'The Dead', in which Gabriel Conroy is gradually brought to a painful epiphan...
Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night, as Ulysses is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal – cultural, political and sexual – that he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and humour, Finnegans Wake rema...
After ten long years spent away from Dublin, Richard, Bertha and their young illegitimate son Archie are back home. Despite expectations of comfort and domesticity, the couple's return to the place where they first met triggers an existential questioning, an anxiousness which is exacerbated by meetings with old friends and lovers.James Joyce's only surviving play, Exiles builds upon one of his most famous short stories, 'The Dead', to provide a profound exploration of jealous...
IT'S TIME FOR WAR, FOLKS. The seventh explosive installment in Matt Dinniman’s best selling LitRPG series and all's unfair in love and war ... "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson***Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal .. . It all makes for great fun and even greater television.The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy.The winning team must captur...
DID WE SAY KILL, KILL, KILL? OH, WE MEANT RUN, RUN. RUUUUUUUN! The fifth explosive installment in Matt Dinniman’s best selling LitRPG series - going from the most watched to the most hunted isn't fun ... What a surprise! "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson***Attention.The gates are down. The hunters are loose. A lush jungle teeming with danger.Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. And ...
THEY CAN'T CATCH A BREAK, NOW THEY NEED TO CATCH A LETHAL MONSTER. The sixth explosive installment in Matt Dinniman’s best selling LitRPG series where the hunted become the hunters ... while also still being hunted! "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson***It is bedlam on the eighth floor.Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, have survived longer and leveled up higher than anyone ever thought ...
WHERE'S YOUR GAME PLAN? YOU'RE GONNA NEED IT ... The fourth explosive adventure in Matt Dinniman’s hit LitRPG series - find out who's the king of the castle... And who's the dirty rascal. "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson***New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure.Surviving in a multilevel dungeon that also happens to be the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show has taught Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princes...
'Impossible to put down' V.E. Schwab, international bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueA star-crossed lovers romance that spans a millennia, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, They Both Die at the End and One DayThey've loved each other in every lifetime. They've killed each other in every one.Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday.The problem is...
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARK AWARDOne man. One cat.One alien invasion. Infinite chaos.Dive into the first explosive Dungeon Crawler Carl adventure - a wild mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and twisted survival comedy.If there s a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven t read it Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters--You know what s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat.And you know what ...
THE TRAINING LEVELS HAVE CONCLUDED. THE GAMES MAY TRULY BEGIN. The second explosive adventure in Matt Dinniman’s hit LitRPG series - funnier, darker, and more dangerously addictive than ever.‘[A] comically cosmic adventure series…often laugh-out-loud funny…Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut’ The Wall Street Journal‘If there’s a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven’t read it’ Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters--Now on the ...
Romance, luxury, and secrets abound in this thrilling new collection that takes readers deeper into the world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games seriesThere is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthorne man loves.An amnesiac playboy and the woman with every reason to hate him. A daredevil, his favorite heiress, and three nights in Prague. An unlikely pairing between a cowboy and a goth. Four brothers with an inescapable bond, strengthened by the family they chose, in a ...
Hannah Rooney has a plan: keep her head down and avoid the dealings of her criminal family. She's biding her time in nursing school, waiting for her beloved sister, Kaylie, to turn eighteen so Hannah can get them both far away.Tobias Hawthorne II acts every inch the entitled heir. Yet behind his razor sharp cheekbones and devil may care attitude, Toby is guarding a nest of deadly secrets and a fiery anger.Then, Hannah and Toby’s lives collide in one tragic night, where an act...
Tell your octo-cutie you love them with all your hearts in this punny touch-and-feel board book for babies and toddlers!From the USA Today bestselling series that brought you I Love You Like No Otter comes the next sweet story, perfect for reminding your fin-tastic little one that they mean the world to you.I Love You with All My Hearts! is filled with mer-mazing puns and rawr-some illustrations of fun animals - including axolotls, unicorns, and dinosaurs! With interactive el...
From the bestselling author of BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die and ‘CEO of Plot Twists’ comes an explosive dark academia thriller, perfect for fans of Karen M. McManus, Holly Jackson and Mean Girls. Don't miss out on the limited edition in-world sprayed edge! ‘A thriller author to watch!’ Karen M. McManus, international bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying'An intensely readable dark academia thriller, ideal for fans of Holly Jackson.' The Guardian Chloe Roberts is on ...
A PROBLEM TO SOLVE.Any problem can be fixed . . . for a price. When Tess Kendrick is sent to stay with her older sister, she has no idea that she is a “fixer”, a person who can make powerful people’s scandals disappear. Soon, Tess finds herself thrust into the same role.SECRETS PILE UP.Each sister leads a double life, and their worlds come crashing together as a scandal erupts from the halls of the exclusive Hardwicke School to Capitol Hill.THE STAKES ARE DEADLY.Tess must now...
Pandora is the first human woman – made by the gods on Olympus for one simple purpose: to love and be loved by her new husband, the titan Epimatheos.The only problem? He wants nothing to do with her.Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find meaning in her new life. What's the point of being given all these gifts by the gods, if she can't get this infuriating, awful, frankly very rude man (with an admittedly quite nice face) to love her? Maybe she's failing at her life’s pu...
Karen M. McManus, the internationally bestselling YA thriller author of One of Us Is Lying, is back with a brand-new murder-mystery – you won’t be able to resist Such Charming Liars. Now in bright pink with a matching sprayed edge and an exclusive bonus short story inside!When mother-daughter con artists set out on their final heist before cleaning up their act, it's not long before the job turns deadly and they have a lifeless body to contend with . . .For all of Kat’s life,...
This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the 'piggy bank' system - treating students as passive, empty vessels - to preserve their authority and maintain a culture of silence. Through cooperation and dialogue, Freire suggests, the authoritarian teacher-pupil model can be replaced with critical thinking so that the student bec...
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest,most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each volume is tran...
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriag...
Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church on a hot summer's day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940, describing chestnut trees lit up at night like 'Japanese lanterns' or lamenting ...
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both t...
