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THE BREATHTAKING SEQUEL TO THIS POISON HEART, FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR KALYNN BAYRON _______________'This duology closer delves deeper into mythology while depicting textured, realistic relationships' - Kirkus Reviews'A delicious mix of intoxicating fantasy…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN 'It makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme' - Daisy Goodwin Lover, mother, murderer, Tsarina1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta…
Discover the highly acclaimed historical fiction series set within the glittering and ruthless House of Romanov. 'Gripping ... Who would not want to spend more time in the mad, bad world of the Romanovs?' The Times 'A delicious hotbed of greed, lust…
'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien…
'Explosive' Margaret Atwood'Seismic' Observer'Brilliant' Nigella Lawson'Gripping' Jon Ronson*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN AND ZOE KAZAN*A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, METRO AND ELLE BOOK OF THE YEAROn…
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram In 2018, without any…
'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . .. It is rare that I encounter…
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The TimesTo be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful and profound' Esquire'Unbridled and unapologetic' VogueWhen Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant…
A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . .. Combined with this linguistic skill, Dik tter has a writer's gift EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great…
History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues…
'Riveting . . .Essential reading' GUARDIAN'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVERThe definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the…
The first collection of short fiction from legendary comic book writer Alan Moore Illuminations is a momentous, wildly original collection of short stories from the king of comics (Guardian), each featuring some kind of illumination or realisation.…
Is this a cookbook? Well, it's full of Heston's typically brilliant, delicious and inventive recipes, including green gazpacho, beetroot and pea salad, quinoa with vegetables, Moroccan pasties, hemp panna cotta, banana and parsley smoothie, tomato and…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR'A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone…
Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window their circling, strident calls and thinks of D. H. Lawrence.It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most…
Polarbear is one of the most influential poets of his generation. The work collected here is the work that made his name. These poems have racked up hundreds of thousands of views online, lodging themselves in the hearts and minds of readers and audiences…
'Melissa captures her love of food and its roots deliciously' - Ainsley Harriott'A masterful work and a must for any lover of the food of Jamaica and the Caribbean region or simply anyone who loves good food' - Dr Jessica B. HarrisMotherland is a cookbook…
A stunning collection of 100+ heart-warming recipes that also happen to be packed with good things The perception that there is the food we love, and the food that's good for us, and never the twain shall meet, is swept away by this stunning collection…
The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . .by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE A great historian at the peak of his…
The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always…
Oozing with bad airs, boggarts and other spirits, the world's marshes and swamps are often seen as sinister, permanently twilit - and only partly of this earth. For centuries, they - and their inhabitants - have been the object of our distrust. We have…
The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. 'A hugely daring, intrigue-packed,…
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politicsSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s,…
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Explosively…
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper…
'Witty and fascinating ... a guide book that can't help but inspire' independent.co.ukAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos…
'Heads up - here's how to run like a pro' The Times'A fascinating book' Adharanand Finn, author of Running With the Kenyans'I'm convinced that Shane's insights were were instrumental in me winning the Marathon des Sables for a second time' Elisabet Barnes,…
Based on the principles of engineering science, physics and mathematics, but assuming only an elementary understanding of these, this textbook masterfully explains the theory and practice of the subject. Bringing together key topics, including the chassis…