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'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR'An engulfing novel' AVNI DOSHI'The book that everyone is reading'NEW YORK TIMESTold in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid…
'ZADIE SMITH-ESQUE IN ITS KALEIDOSCOPE OF LONDON' NIAMH CAMPBELL'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONESSummer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers,…
'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY, AUTHOR OF THE FLATSHARE 'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening’ CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE, AUTHOR OF THE RACHEL INCIDENT Bette loves Mei, but…
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window:…
Our twenties can be challenging. Today, so many twentysomethings are struggling, especially with anxiety and depression, and yet we're not sure what to think or do about it. In The Twentysomething Treatment psychologist Dr.Meg Jay explores why and unveils…
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein?'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity'…
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date―a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering…
A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home'An astonishing debut ... Rhythmic, atmospheric and enduring' CHARLIE CARROLL'A book where language feels like hands reaching into the soil, where landscapes feel alive, where…
The hotly anticipated book from ‘one of the all-time pop-culture greats’ (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. ‘Intense and compelling’ SUNDAY TIMES 'A gripping…
'Trippy, incisive and riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'A wonder ... Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars'An original mind brimming…
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an…
An Observer Best Debut of the Year'Oozes with erotic tension from the start' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life'Sublime ... I loved this book' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea'Tense and taut and exhilarating' Monica Heisey, author of…
The new novel from the Women's Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future - as the richest people on the planet have…
'A fascinating, in-depth investigation into the complex landscape of misinformation from someone who has spent his career trying to combat fake news' Angela SainiOne of the world's top experts on fighting misinformation reveals the psychology behind…
A Best Book of 2023 in AnOther Magazine, Huffington Post UK and i Newspaper 'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'Sumptuous and astute ... An absolute delight to read' Diana Evans, author…
'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam SangheraIn this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history…
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny…
The whole course of one’s life really can change in an instant.Peter is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment, a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on twenty years. Their…
The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen,s 'Freedom, was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen,s…
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage…
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 With this historic win for BRING UP THE BODIES, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the first to win with two consecutive novels.…
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 With this historic win for BRING UP THE BODIES, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the first to win with two consecutive novels.…
One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley…
A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of…
Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Girls’ and the award-winning movie ‘Tiny Furniture’, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. “If I could take what I’ve…
The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. With this historic win for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, Hilary Mantel becomes the first…
The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world…
A brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Including a new story The School of English. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished…
A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent…
We are not born knowing what to eat. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us. Everyone starts drinking milk. After that it’s all up for…