'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...
THE ELECTRIFYING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER HEAVENLY BODIES'The Heavenly Bodies series officially has me in a chokehold' Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars 'It wouldn't be a surprise if this follows in the hallowed halls of Sarah J Maas' iNews'A deeply romantic quest beyond death... impossible to put down' Shalini Abeysekara, This Monster of Mine********************************************************************************Never make a bargain with a god. ...
PRE-ORDER NOW! The addictive new novel from bestselling author and TikTok senstation, Tillie Cole. ---------------------Born and raised a Texas cowgirl, Hallie Oakley is the most skilled showjumper on Team USA. And she has just one goal in mind – an Olympic gold medal. But to achieve this, she must train with the most prestigious facility in the world – Golden Oaks. A beautiful English stables, nestled in the Cotswolds which has produces some of the best riders. . . Inc...
Pre-order the must-have cosy crime novel of the year! Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Ian Moore and Robert Thorogood!Having won the Golden Trowel Award for best community gardening club, Gill and the Bromley Botanists are poised to turn the Chequered Lawns Golf Club into a flower farm. Confident they can succeed with their new plan, Gill has already handed in her notice at Chislehurst Green Insurance and Mike has left Dobbies. The soil beneath the pristine turf of the ei...
Join our lovable Fuzzy Friends as they discover an enchanted storybook that transports them into an extraordinary fairy tale world! In this delightful colouring book, you'll accompany our cute friends on their journey through reimagined classic tales, filling each page with warmth and whimsy. Let the glow of magic guide your colouring journey as you transform each page into a masterpiece! Your magical story awaits...
ALL GAMES MUST COME TO AN END.In the stunning finale to the global phenomenon of the Inheritance Games Saga (over 6 million copies sold!), discover danger, riches, romance--and the staggering answers to long-brewing mysteries.All games must come to an end. In this series-shattering conclusion, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled, precious threads are unraveled, and impossible mysteries are solved. In the grandest of games, there is so much to win--money, love...
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...
Pre-order Shirtaloon's LitRPG full of adventure, magic, monsters and mystery!***9-5 worker Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters. He soon finds out that It s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, despite having only evil powers at his disposal.He ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that s just on the first day. He s g...
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...
'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...
'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown'By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, passing the time by studying her colleagues and taking notes for the novel she might write one day. Each night she returns to a vast mansion flat, which has felt bigger and emptier since her mother’s recent death.Then Frances meets charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix, and finds herself drawn into their tight circle of friends, her diary suddenly full of engagements and excite...
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...
This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - sh...
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...
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? ...
In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word.But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a...
'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...
For Detective Chief Inspector Joe Mottram, a summer on the island of Capri was meant to be an opportunity to reconnect with his troubled teenage daughter, Angelica, and his Italian in-laws, after his wife’s Francesca’s death by a hit-and-run.But when a British tourist is found dead and a member of his late wife’s family is accused of murder, Joe is pulled back into a world of police cells, crime scenes and local corruption. As he discovers more about the island, he realises i...
ONE DAY AGO… Following a car accident, Preston Stewart goes in for surgery on his face. But when the bandages are removed, his wife Ellie knows something is wrong. It’s not her husband. 16 YEARS AGO… Zauna Roy’s older brother Marco went missing when she was ten. Years later she begins looking into his disappearance with documentary makers, Anna and Sydney. A month later, the three women have vanished into thin air.... NOW… When missing persons investigator David Raker looks i...
‘I want to have him, I really do. I just don’t want him to have me.’Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they tr...
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...
A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.** FEATURED IN THE NEW BBC SERIES CIVILISATIONS: RISE AND FALL **** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **‘A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably reaching humanity's end days’ HENRY MARSH'Absolutely essential reading for understanding why past civilisations collapsed, an...
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...
From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, The Versions of Us. A novel about six lifelong friends and one unforgettable year. ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral meets One Day...I couldn't put it down.’ 5-star reader review 'I haven't read a book this delightful in a long time.' 5-star reader reviewZoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie. Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their hopes a...
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...
'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...
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 ...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." -- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." -- Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga ...
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...
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,...
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...
When Cerys’ best friend and secret crush Jake moves to a new college, she realises she’s running out of time to take their relationship from platonic to romantic. She’ll do anything to get out of Jake’s friendzone, even if that means diving into the huge fantasy fandom he loves so much.But when Jake introduces Cerys to his shiny new friend Max, who goes to all the conventions and loves a costume, she realises she’ll need to do a lot more to grab Jake’s attention than just rea...
Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year's game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. ...
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUBA brand new series.An iconic new detective team.And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .-----Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life.He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's business now.Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good...
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making?a record-breaking, critically acclaimed no.1 bestseller. 'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on SundayIn the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama recounts his journey from a young man searching for his identity to the 44th president of the United States, describing in strikingly personal detail his political education and land...
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and The Six-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person...
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023‘If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years...please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue t...
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. 'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp.Mitchell – a funny man and skilled historian – tells stories that are interesting and fun. Here is Horrible Histories for grownups’ GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES 'Just fantastic. Delightfully contrary and hilariously cantankerous.Very, very funny’ JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SU...
'Hilarious and wise… Another knockout’ Taylor Jenkins Reid'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover‘A must-read book of the year’ Lauren Asher Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything?Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying...
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems. At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making music speaking not just to their hardships, but their joys.Grooving with his best friend, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. His youth, shame and sacrif...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and d...
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts.She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakf...
'A writer at the peak of her powers' The TelegraphTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.It is 1873.Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and ...
DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW. Two hearts.One love story. An ending you will never forget...Run...
DISCOVER THE DEEPLY ROMANTIC AND UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT WILL GRIP YOU UNTIL THE VERY LAST PAGE'Wren and Crew stole my heart and neither of them will give it back. I cannot explain how much I adore this story . .. Full of angst, drama and steam' 5* READER REVIEW'Addictive, angsty and unforgettable . .. their chemistry was explosive' 5* READER REVIEW'Wren and Crew are perfection and the chemistry they have is sizzling! I was sweating it out with nerves at Chapter 4...
Summer love abounds in the New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series, now available in a paperback boxed set—and an original series now streaming on Prime Video! Belly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. For as long as she can remember, she’s shared her summers with the brothers at Cousins Beach. And for as long as she can remember, she’s been in lo...
