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Pre-order 'How I Say 'I Love You' and discover the never-ending multitude of tender ways you can show your loved ones how much you care. How do you say ‘I love you’?By making a hot cup of tea?Offering a warm hug?Or simply by lending a listening ear?In this book, discover the endless ways in which to express love to the special people in your life. From making them their favourite sweet treat and being there when they’re sad, to opening your heart, giving thoughtful gifts, sha...
'The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about every continent, every religion, every tradition of art and poetry' TOMIWA OWOLADE, THE TIMES'For anyone who has enjoyed The Cultural Tutor on X, this book will be more of the same delight. Expect nuggets of insight and wisdom, wrapped in the author's trademark warmth and wit' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A remarkable book. The Cultural Tutor is a witty, wide-ranging, and engaging exploration of humanity's...
Baby Unicorn is feeling sleepy, and she wants you to help her get ready for bed!Use the flaps and sliders to play along and give Baby Unicorn a perfectly magical bedtime. First, she needs a warm bath, full of fluffy cloud bubbles. Then it’s time to get Unicorn dressed in her cosy starry sky pyjamas – don’t forget to help her comb her mane and tail! Next you’ll need to brush her teeth, before picking out the perfect bedtime story. And once Baby Unicorn is all ready for bed, tu...
Peppa and George are SUPER excited to show Evie all of their favourite toys. From puppet shows to dinosaurs, and paint pots to dress-up, there's so much to explore in the new playroom!Help Peppa, George and Evie to find all of their toys in this lift-the-flap book and join in the messy play!Don't miss these other brilliant Peppa books:Peppa Pig: Play with Peppa Hand Puppet BookPeppa Pig: Peppa's Play DatePeppa Pig: Peppa's New Baby SisterPeppa Pig is a 4-time BAFTA award-winn...
'A tactical, science-based blueprint for managing situations clearly and objectively ... a tour-de-force' ETHAN KROSSDistance gives you perspective. Bestselling author of Turn the Ship Around! David Marquet and professor of psychology Michael Gillespie show you how to make better decisions by becoming your own coach.Be yourself. Be fully present. Be in the moment.That is the message we hear constantly. Yet, the biggest obstacle to making wiser, more successful decisions is of...
One Night in Paris. A Summer on the Coast. A Connection That Changes Everything A sweeping, sensual story of love, desire, and reinvention from the multi-million bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop - available now to pre-order in paperback!‘A powerful portrait of two women choosing to act on unexpected desires’ Booklist‘Captivating. This exploration of unfinished relationships has a haunting, evocative quality’ Publishers Weekly‘A poignant story about longing and ...
Join Bluey and family for loads of fun in this jam-packed annual!This official Bluey annual is full of activities, games, crafts and stories about Bluey and her adventures. Keep little Bluey fans busy for hours in this awesome annual with a spot the difference, a search and find and a memory quiz and so much more!The perfect stocking filler this Christmas! WACKADOO!Don’t miss these other awesome Bluey books:Bluey: Let’s Play Verandah Santa! A Lift-the-Flap BookBluey: Jingle B...
After Dad eats her last chip, Bingo gets three chances to put Mum and Dad in ‘dance mode’ but Bingo is still feeling sad. Everyone keeps taking things from her without asking! Find out how Bingo is really feeling in this 2-button sound book. Press each of the coloured spots on your YES and NO buttons when you spot them in the story. Are you ready to dance like no one’s watching . . . YES!Don’t miss these other awesome Bluey books:Bluey: Keepy UppyBluey: Food: A Touch-and-Feel...
Discover amazing dinosaurs in this interactive board book that’s PACKED with flaps. The perfect book for busy little hands.You can roar like a Tyrannosaurus rex, play hide-and-seek with a Triceratops and feed the hungry Diplodocus as you flip the flaps to bring the dinosaurs to life.Then have fun spotting the busy little dragonfly who’s hiding on every page of this interactive board book for toddlers. With peep-through surprises to look out for and secret flaps under flaps, t...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELA BARRACK OBAMA READING PICKA lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.''The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years'' GUARDIAN''Weir''s finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they''ll love it.'' BRANDON SANDERSON''If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. . . This one has everythi...
** NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX RELEASE STARRING EMILY BADER AND TOM BLYTH! **------'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us'A gorgeous romance' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show'Loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop*Also known as You and Me on Vacation*------Two friends. Ten trips. Their last chance to fall in love... 12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never s...
Come and explore the jungle with this interactive board book that’s PACKED with flaps. The perfect books for busy little hands!You can swing the gibbon through the treetops, stomp the elephant''s feet and flap the parakeet''s wings as you flip the flaps to bring the jungle to life.Then have fun spotting the colourful chameleon who''s hiding on every page of this interactive board book for toddlers.With peep-through surprises to look out for and secret flaps under flaps, too -...
Based on unprecedented access, the harsh and hilarious life of a football referee – from Sunday leagues to the World CupBooed by crowds. Sworn at by players. Spat on from the stands. Threatened, accused, hated. Welcome to the world of football refereeing.We watch referees every week. But almost none of us understand what the job really demands.In this meticulously reported book, William Ralston goes deep inside football's most exposed role, speaking to officials from Sunday l...
75 simple steps to help you excel - so you can focus on what matters mostCollege can be a time of independence, lifelong friendships and personal growth - but it can also bring intense pressure to stand out and succeed. In How to Win at College, Cal Newport - bestselling author and Professor at Georgetown University - interviews extraordinary students and distilling what he learns into 75 counterintuitive rules for a calmer, smarter path to college success. These include:Don’...
Reject the cookie-cutter path and build a remarkable future on your own termsGetting into higher education can feel overwhelming. The pressure to achieve top grades, join endless activities and stand out in every way can quickly lead to stress and burnout. In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport - bestselling author and Professor at Georgetown University - shows why this ‘do everything’ approach doesn’t work.Instead, he offers a smarter, research-backed path to succ...
Better grades - without burnoutMost students believe that top grades are the result of endless cramming, stress, pressure and exhausting all-nighters. But Cal Newport - internationally bestselling author and Professor at Georgetown University - shows that real academic success comes from a different approach: studying smarter, not harder. In How to Become a Straight-A Student, Newport reveals practical, proven strategies for mastering every aspect of academic life, from quizz...
Written in the 17th Century by Chinese scholar Wen Zhenheng, Treatise on Superfluous Things offers a compelling glimpse into the tastes and cultural values of the educated elite in late Ming China. This guide to everyday items – from window frames and old master paintings to caged birds, fruits, and vegetables – is the most complete surviving account of the material and cultural tastes of the era in one of China’s largest and richest cities. It is also a guide to finding joy,...
PRE-ORDER THE FASCINATING AND UNEXPECTED STORY OF THE ICONIC HARRIER JUMP JET, AND THE BRITISH ENGINEER WHO BUILT ITVictory in the Falklands War made the Harrier’s name as a world-beating British icon, as capable of giving the enemy a bloody nose as it was of thrilling the crowds at airshows with its thunderous aerial ballet. Its failure seemed inconceivable. But that’s not the real story of the Harrier.From its inception, it faced an uncertain future. Designed to survive a n...
Being in love with your best friend is hard, but being a good friend is even harder. The final volume of the hit manga series about the complications of friendship, first loves and what it truly means to be an ally. Childhood best friends Hime and Akira are finally ready to make up.After a big fight about a boy, and about what ‘being a girl’ means to them both, Hime and Akira have done the work to accept themselves and each other. But Hime has a secret. She has a huge crush o...
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...
Pre-order this global history of high speed rail, from the railways' "wisest, most detailed historian" (The Observer)'The greatest expert on British trains' GUARDIAN'The high priest of railway studies' LITERARY REVIEW'Our most eminent transport journalist' SPECTATOR'If you love the hum of the wheels and of history, then Christian Wolmar is your man' OBSERVERSleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future. Since Japan’s Bullet Train first sped do...
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...
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Burnt Sugar comes a gripping psychodrama of unravelling and rebirth – for readers of Katie Kitamura, Deborah Levy, Gwendoline Riley and Elena Ferrante'Unsparing, exhilarating. This novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the finest prose stylists at work today' Katie Kitamura'Lush and sharpened to a dagger point...I was consumed by this novel' Amina Cain‘I married my husband to live in a fairy tale. I imagined us like p...
Long ago, the gods unleashed monsters to remind us of our insignificance. But I didn’t need a deity to tell me I was powerless. Being a princess had never been more than a performance. Until the day an infamous monster hunter sailed to our shores. The day I married a stranger, signed a magical treaty, and set off across the continent to the most treacherous kingdom in all the realm. That was the day I learned that not all myths are make-believe. And that the only way to kill ...
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...
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...
A superb murder mystery set in the snowy wastes of ancient northern China Judge Dee is again in relentless pursuit of evil in one of van Gulik's most strange, atmospheric and ingenious murder mysteries. Set in a remote, freezing part of China, the novel twists together a girl's disappearance, the theft of some jewels and a horrifying beheading. And, just to make things worse, there seems to be some link with these events and a 'Seven Board', a popular game in the region.There...
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 ...
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...
'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...
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 New York Times bestseller, Financial Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearThe book we need to understand China today: a riveting, first-hand account of its seismic progress from an indispensable expert voice For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve e...
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...
The New York Times BestsellerA Financial Times Book of the Year 2025A Guardian Book of the Year 2025A detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity -- a breakthrough moment in the history of human health care -- from one of the most respected medical researchers in the world.‘Fascinating . . . expertly surveys the latest approaches to managing the diseases and decline associated with ageing.’Financial Times'Extraordinary . . . a blueprint for the future.'Siddhar...
'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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
‘Heart-smashed’ by the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir – a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is: shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother, Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.With the scale, sweep and depth of her novels, and the passio...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers...
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...
It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s Casanova. A young – and beautiful – apprentice is just what he needs.He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecitta, the studio where Ca...
‘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...
