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The phenomenal international and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of SapiensStories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned…
One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact. ‘One of the best scientist-writers of our…
* RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * JIMMY FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK * GRAZIA SUMMER READING PICK *'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok'I recently read this book and loved it ' CELESTE NG, Washington PostThis…
**NOW A MAJOR FILM** BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets…
In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Soon, though, the residents begin to suffer. Undertakers…
** WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE ** This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic. Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon…
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026** In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without…
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**Anne Carson's first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to…
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026** 'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit Hub…
In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend…
A glorious celebration of reading deeply and seeing the world and ourselves reflected back to us in art 'It will remain my writing and reading companion for years, probably always' SAMANTHA HARVEY 'Tessa Hadley is a great writer, and if it's possible,…
The first proper history of the world’s most notorious secret society and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife On 1 May 1776 a radical young professor named Adam Weishaupt founded a secret society whose aim was to infiltrate and overturn the system of…
Urgent and inspiring lessons from the front lines of the climate catastrophe – by one of our most important and influential environmental writers. 'Exceptional' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A necessary voice on the environment' OBSERVER'A clear-eyed, intimate…
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published…
An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the absorbing new book from Jeanette Winterson ‘A dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help’ GuardianI can change the story because…
Jane Austen's classic romance novel, soon to be a major Netflix series adapted by Dolly Alderton, starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family.…
Rediscover the tender, melancholic wonder of Leonard Cohen in this essential collection of his most iconic verses. A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith…
One of the world’s most enduring works on radical simplicity - showing how less effort, less control and less noise can lead to better decisions and a stronger life. The Tao Te Ching has inspired thinkers and leaders for over two thousand years with…
A timeless guide to strategy, decision-making and achieving victory - now in a clear, modern translation with insights for today’s reader. For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has been a manual for thinking clearly under pressure. Its principles…
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane…
The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward…
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis.…
Co když je největší milostný příběh všech dob jenom dokonale vymyšlená lež? Krásná princezna Beruška. Statečný čeledín Westley. Krutý princ Humperdinck. Pomstychtivý šermíř Inigo. Obří silák Fezzik. Tajemný muž v černém. A také dobrodružství, které začíná…
**DETECTIVE HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES**When the snow falls, the killing begins.After the first snowfall, a mother vanishes, leaving behind only a pink scarf wrapped around a snowman’s neck. Detective Harry Hole recognises the signature - a serial…
‘Mush on!’ Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he’d have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because of that Buck is kidnapped and dragged away from his sunny home to become a sledge dog in…
From the international bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals comes a new way to engage with life: aliveness.‘If there are two people who have changed my life … then one of them is Oliver Burkeman’ PANDORA SYKES‘Burkeman…
Revolution, war, political turmoil: this is the extraordinary story of how modern London – the world’s first truly global city – was made. ‘Jerry White is the historian of London, and this may be his crowning achievement … Brilliant’ DAVID KYNASTON,…
A tale of mythic beauty, elemental passion and hope from one of our greatest storytellers, with an afterword by R.F. Kuang.'The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess…