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'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives…
With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Necessary, urgent and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH'Intimately life-affirming . . . tackles enormously complex questions' CALEB FEMISomeone once asked me…
What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole?Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE…
NOW A MAJOR TV SHOW STARRING MATT SMITH AS BUNNY"A modern day parable ... Accessible, thrilling and gloriously impolite" Sunday Telegraph"Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they…
Letters have been here all along, quietly influencing countless people in profound ways. They encourage, they bring happiness, while to some they even provide the will to keep on living. Geulwoll is a Korean word for 'letter'.It is also the name of a…
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Splendid' GUARDIAN'Utterly fascinating' ROBERT MACFARLANE'A scientific life as dissonant as it was remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMESDrawing together the many influences which shaped his life and thinking, The Many Lives of James…
UPDATED TO COVER THE LEAGUE-WINNING 24/25 SEASON This is the story of a man who transformed a club and a city The news of Jurgen Klopp stepping down as Liverpool manager sent shockwaves across his adopted city. The story of Klopp and Liverpool is a special…
'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…