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Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy's first memoir. It explores her complicated relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, an influential women's rights activist and educational reformer. Beginning with the death of her mother, Roy reflects on childhood, family, grief, freedom and the...

A warm, witty and bittersweet novel told through the letters of Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old woman who uses correspondence to make sense of her life. When letters from her past force her to confront painful memories and long-held regrets, Sybil must find the...

THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Boundlessly wise . . . important and engrossing’ The New York Times‘One of the most important books I’ve read . . . It’s absolutely brilliant’ Dr Rangan Chatterjee'Urgent and essential' GuardianAcclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the...

What is the price of progress? In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control. Weaving together the stories of a group...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUBA cunning killer. A race around the world.An iconic new detective team is born.-----Solving murders. It's a family business.Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers the...

In Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith shares practical psychological tools for handling many of life’s everyday challenges. Drawing on her professional experience, she explores topics including anxiety, low mood, self-confidence, motivation, criticism, emotional resilience and difficult experiences....

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.

George Orwell’s 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society where the Party controls information, language, history and even private thought. Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past to serve the Party’s version of reality. Under the constant surveillance...

Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is...

NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad ― often in the same sentence' Sunday Times'The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine WelshAn outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating...

'Astonishing . . . an amazing book . . . absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING...

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In his provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that...

When Imogen inherits a country mansion near Bath from Dorothea Roe, a reclusive artist she barely knew, she sees it as a chance for a fresh start. But discovering a box bearing her name makes Imogen suspect Dorothea was trying to reveal a secret....

Artie Dam appears to have an ordinary, settled life: he teaches history, enjoys sailing and shares his home with his wife of three decades. Yet beneath the surface, he is troubled by loneliness and questions about how little people truly understand one another. When...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of “break in case of emergency” advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur. In this essential self-help guide, Dr. Julie...

Agent Sonya tells the extraordinary true story of Ursula Kuczynski Burton, a German-born communist who became one of the Soviet Union’s most remarkable spies. Living outwardly as an ordinary wife and mother in wartime Britain, she secretly gathered scientific intelligence that helped Moscow develop...

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until, on...

One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...'Her best yet' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us'Magical, delightful, and utterly one of a kind' Ali Hazelwood, The Love HypothesisNora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game....

Two writers. One holiday. A romcom waiting to happen...'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us'A great love story' Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here'The perfect escapist romp' Laura Jane Williams, One Night With YouJanuary is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead...

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive...