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Fear the Worst
The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job -...
The Railway Station Man: A beautiful novel of longing and lost love
Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has...
Among the Heroes
The events of September 11th 2001 are etched on the minds of people all over the globe. This book examines the fate of Flight 93. Believed to be heading for...
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the...
The Game of Mix and Match
Experience the magic of Herve Tullet from books you can only read in the dark to one in which the story relies entirely on the reader s fingers through five...
Shostakovich
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present...
Dig!: Uncover the Secrets of the Past with Archaeology
Uncover the secrets of the past with the latest archaeological knowhow in Dig!, a scientific journey through millions of years of human history. Do you have a favourite history fact?...
Natural Experiments of History
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for...
In Milton Lumky Territory
Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter...
Parasol against the Axe
The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in the...
Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
In Find Me , Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the...
Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day
An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than...
The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How
Expands on the traditional 'Seven Wonders' to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe. The traditional list of seven wonders was derived from ancient Greek guidebooks,...
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your...
The World According to Coco: The Wit and Wisdom of Coco Chanel
French couturiere Coco Chanel has achieved legendary status across the world and continues to captivate young generations of fashion fans who eagerly collect and share her quotes, creations and insights....
When We Left Cuba
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life--and heart--to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana. Instant...
Workbook: for Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, Second Edition
Written exercises-The Second Edition includes new exercises for each chapter that reflect changes in the text, in particular changes in the chapters on fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Exercises require students...
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal
Criminal profiling-the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us-holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it...
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety
When clients are stuck in the cognitive experience of their story, an explanation of polyvagal theory helps to bring their attention to the autonomic experience- to bring the importance of...
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab bag of polyvagal-informed...
Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions:
DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are influenced...
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions...
The Food of Southern Thailand
Austin Bush has spent decades traveling across Thailand, collecting recipes, observing cooking techniques, taking photographs, and recording stories. With his documentarian's eye, he captures the rich culinary traditions of the...
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher,
In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses of modern living to its...
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab , revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. And for fast, fresh...
The Science of Interstellar
Interstellar , from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar , Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning...
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to...
The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the...
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business
"I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment." -- Steven Levitt Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's...
The Arabian Nights
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed- new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on...
Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan\'s work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts,...
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Two beloved and esteemed poets have collaborated on this intimate and useful anthology illuminating the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art. Intended for all those who love...
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's...
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
We know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to his character and leadership: Lincoln...
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay. The Red Book , published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works....
The Odyssey
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, the Odyssey is a...
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine
In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth...
Long Live Evil: A story for anyone who's ever fallen for the
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TALE FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN... When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second...
Lion Of Macedon
'THE HARD-BITTEN CHAMPION OF BRITISH HEROIC FANTASY' - Joe Abercrombie 'HEROISM AND HEARTBREAK . . . GEMMELL IS ADRENALINE WITH SOUL' - Brent Weeks His name is Parmenion. Despised by...
Speaker for the Dead: Book 2 of the Ender Saga
Three thousand planet-bound years have passed while Ender the star-traveller remains young. In that time his name has become anathema, for he is the one who killed an entire race...
A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen: 'Fantastic, exciting deep dive into
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD ' Sally really tells it how it is . . . This book will be a go to for those...
Releasing 10
Releasing 10 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love...
Random in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 58)
It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Sixteen-year-old Jenna Harbough's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York...
Salome: The woman behind the dance
An evocative, unputdownable novel about the infamous Salome. Discover the woman behind the myth, in this epic and opulent novel, perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Madeline Miller, Philippa Gregory...
No Judgments: escape to paradise with the perfect laugh out loud
'Meg Cabot is chick-lit royalty' NEWSWEEK ' Her trademark humour makes for compulsive reading' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Escape to Little Bridge Island in the first full-length novel in a brand new...