Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference.Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achi...
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazificat...
For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa a...
A deadly venom. A ruthless terrorist. A billionaire's terrifying final wish . . .Answering a research ship's distress call in the Timor Sea, Juan Cabrillo's Oregon finds the crew unable...
The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much...
When Ellie Barker was three years old, her mother was found in a torched Cadillac, overturned on Mulholland Drive, with a bullet in her head.Many detectives had tried and failed to solv...
Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinat...
The legend of Croesus's riches has echoed across millennia. Stolen and hidden by pirates after the Persian King's defeat in 546 BC, his staggering wealth was thought to be lost to history . . .
If you've ever taken a child (or sat near one) on public transport - you know how important this book is. Five Minute Mum: On the Go is the ultimate companion to any journey, staycation or holiday:...
Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...
From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be Lonely'Audacious, revelatory, devastating' Robin DiAngeloAt home and in gove...
Spokane, 1909. The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home,...
As Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thriller featuring the NYPD's finest detectiveWeeks before NYPD Detective Michael ...
Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still l...
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It i...
'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that '...
Dr. Aphra teams up with Darth Vader himself in this original script of the thrilling Star Wars audiobook production.Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra, rogue archaeologist, is in trouble again.
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard real...
Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the second book in an exciting new children's history seriesWinter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a chil...
How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued?In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining.At...