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Beloved icon Willie Nelson shares his well-earned wisdom about reaching an astonishing creative flourishing, and an even deeper union with the love of his life, Annie. Willie Nelson is a giant of country music. He has sold more than 50m records, written…
'Please read this' DAVID MITCHELL'Direct, beautiful, humane' MADELEINE THIEN'A book to give, to share, to cherish' LEÏLA SLIMANI'An essential novel' DAVID DIOP One morning, during a ceasefire in Gaza, a young photographer wanders far from his hotel and…
A 'Sleeping Beauty' is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time.So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great.This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep?…
Between life and death there is a library . . .Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth, she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try…
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE BERNSTEIN AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Washington Post, Elle,…
'Glorious' KATHERINE RUNDELL'Wondrous' MICHAEL MORPUGOOne winter's day, Chloe Dalton went for a countryside walk and discovered a newborn baby hare - no bigger than her hand - chased by a dog and separated from its mother. Worried for its safety, Chloe…
'Joyous' MATT HAIG 'I want to press it into the hands of everyone I love' DAISY BUCHANAN'Beautiful, moving, surprising' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Hugely readable' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A gorgeous, immersive read' SAMANTHA ELLISOne Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds…
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2025Why do women who outearn their male partners still tend to do more housework and childcare? Why are unemployed men generally happier if their female partners are also unemployed? And why is unpaid labour…
BLISTERING ~ MACABRE ~ IRREVERENTLegendary chef Anthony Bourdain's crude culinary noir classic.When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's failing restaurant in Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself…
RAW ~ REBELLIOUS ~ VULGAR Bukowski's take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel.Lifelong misfit Henry Chinaski grows up downtrodden, stumbling through a world he has only ever known as hostile. Fights, failed romances…
YOU KNOW BATMAN.BUT DO YOU KNOW FRANK MILLER?In Push the Wall, Frank Miller chronicles the creation of his most iconic works such as Sin City, 300, Ronin, Daredevil, Wolverine and notably, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which, alongside Batman: Year…
INTOXICATING ~ EFFERVESCENT ~ HEDONISTIC Iconic LA 'lit girl' Eve Babitz's semi-autobiographical novel of sun, excess and success.Jacaranda - wild child of sun and surf - grows up by the hurling glory of the ocean and believes that good things are infinite.…
FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATEA neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention.Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a…
Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan Labyrinth, the Minotaur - or M as he is known to his colleagues - is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered…
IN A WORLD THAT'S LIKE OURS BUT EVEN STRANGER . . . A TV star president is campaigning for a constitutionally dubious third term, normal Americans are falling into an unexplained weeping sickness and a wrestler claiming to be the reincarnated mystic…
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder,…
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood - his home.Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship…
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces…
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a fabulous novel connecting the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of his life in modern-day Oxford.
Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines. Despite the losses they have suffered, the resolve of their…
'One of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time' ED YONG'Chanda Prescod-Weinstein brings light to our universe' ROBIN INCEIn The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes readers to the boundaries of the universe, inviting…
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.For Wilbur his best days…
'You knew I'd write a book about you someday'Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when…
'Powerfully inspiring ' GUARDIAN'A timely message for today's society' JIM AL-KHALILI'An expansive tour de force' OBSERVERThe Bright Side makes a vital and transformative new argument: that optimism is not only the natural state of humanity, but an essential…
A WATERSTONES BEST HOME & LIFESTYLE BOOK OF 2023*This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings.Wear stripes. Eat chocolate. Don't leave empty-handed.But also embrace change, let go…
Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live…
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA TIME MUST-READ OF 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT'Spellbinding' Washington Post'Had me gripped from the very first page' RACHEL JOYCEA family on a remote island.…
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over…
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDSOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad…