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'No matter how big and fast and strong you are, how heavily armed or well trained, there's always going to be someone out there who is bigger, faster, or stronger. Always.'To Aud Torvingen violence is a tool, one to be employed with precision. And it…
'Stay in the world, Aud . . .Stay alive inside. Promise me.' Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking…
'Danger is desperately seductive . . .' Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way.Born in Norway, she now lives in the sticky heat of Atlanta-a security consultant gliding between…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and…
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF 2024'Beautifully written and exquisitely tense' C.J. COOKE 'A masterwork of vision and power' MANDA SCOTTA lone ship journeys south, heading for the furthest reaches of Antarctica. It belongs to Sky, the billionaire…
* New novel THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE available in paperback now * 10th anniversary edition, revised and updated with a new introduction from the authorTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWHAT DOES…
NOW WITH FAQS EXCLUSIVE TO THE PAPERBACKThere is one key factor affecting health and long life that is more important than any other: social connection. When we form meaningful bonds with others, our wounds heal faster, our blood pressure drops and we…
'Glorious . . .guides the reader with authority and humour ' LUCY COOKE'Funny, informative and refreshingly frank' ED WATKINS'Fascinating and important' DAVID FARRIERWe find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries…
Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform. Horrified by the dropping of the first atomic bombs,…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful novel full of life-affirming wonder and imagination' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down…
A GUARDIAN 'BOOK TO READ IN 2025' 'A truly inspirational and beautiful book with a powerful and timely message for today's society' - JIM AL-KHALILIOptimism, irrational though it might be, is central to the human psyche: it seems to give us an advantage…
'Hugely enjoyable' Observer'Wickedly funny' The TimesWhen Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders…
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of…
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked,…
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLERWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTHWINNER OF 2024 SCOTS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD 2024And I have done more than just simply get bySo much…
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'How I loved this book . . .Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a cafe on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits…
The world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and, with few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and…
'Clement has lived a life like no other, and made of it a shimmering mosaic, a masterpiece, which is this book' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessGrowing up in 1970s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's…
A BEST BOOK OF 2023 FOR THE TELEGRAPH, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW SCIENTIST AND STYLIST A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ 2023Discover the next frontier of scientific understanding: your body's electrome. Every cell in your body - bones, skin, nerves, muscle…
How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up…
'A great book' JAMIE CARRAGHER 'Joyously discursive - as if Tristram Shandy has written a football book' FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE'Does anyone in this room think that I can do wonders? I'm a normal guy from the Black Forest . . .I am the "normal one"'…
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of…
This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing…
i thought ifi ate the worldi would finallybe fulli would neverbe hungry againIn this debut collection, Marina's talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional…
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that…
The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar.The Deranged Mother. Doon Mackichan is best known for her comedy characters, but throughout her career there are parts she's refused to take and stereotypes she's continually defied. In My Lady…
VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At eighteen months old, he was kidnapped from his parents' house. His maternal grandparents transported him to suburban…
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from…