An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back ...
‘How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy’s stories’Sharon Cameron ...
When a routine mission is compromised, Captain Juan Cabrillo learns of a sinister plot. Off the Brazilian coast is another one-legged captain, with a ship just like the Oregon.Same weap...
Will shatter some of your basic assumptions about ageing' - Adam GrantWhy do some people age better and live longer than others?This is the question that led leading expert ...
Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens – and Jessica, the exqu...
Alexander's mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny.'Alexander of Macedon has one, wild dream: to rule the worl...
The bestselling TikTok sensation!Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal's We Hunt the Flame is a breathtaking debut about discovery, conquering fear an...
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the tense, highly fortified bo...
WOMANI learned early in life how to survive. A skill that became vital in my position.WIFEI was given no power, yet I was expected to hold my own with the most powerful man ...
When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To ...
Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of ...
The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The CircleWhen the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce...
Put your vocabulary skills to the test with this witty and engaging book. Improve Your Word Power is primarily a collection of multiple-choice challenges in which the reader is asked to decide whic...
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have a...
'His heart racing, Henry took a step towards the enemy line. A shape loomed towards him in the darkness...'Travel back in time to a world engulfed by war, as historian Dominic Sandbrook...
A good life involves more than just pleasure. Suffering is essential too.It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness - and pain does the opposite. And yet we are irresistibly draw...
George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, hi...
Jonas is used to his young wife disappearing. Everyone in the town knows that she goes off with other men. This time, however, he tells a small lie to protect her, saying she is visiting a school f...
Stranger Things meets the Netflix series Dark in this paranormal thriller where three mysterious doors in a school basement hold the key to unlocking the mystery of what really happened the night M...