Best Sellers - Individual titles

In The Book , Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on...

Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most...

How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...

"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...

In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prevalent and are taken for granted....

Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an...

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts...

It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those...

Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate...

The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been...

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined,...

Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified...

In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds...

According to Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche's only value is the flourishing of the exceptional individual. The well-being of ordinary people is, in itself, without value. Yet there are passages in Nietzsche...

Planetary scientist and educator Ken Coles has teamed up with Ken Tanaka from the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology team, and Phil Christensen, Principal Investigator of the Mars Odyssey orbiter's...

How does Google sell ad space and rank webpages? How does Netflix recommend movies and Amazon rank products? How can you influence people on Facebook and Twitter and can you...

How do you solve a murder that hasn't happened yet? Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made...

An upbeat production exec is tasked with reining in the cynical director who was her forbidden college heartbreak in this sparkling, sexy contemporary romance. The best love stories happen off-screen......

Standing Watch - Terri Reed To protect an innocent witness... a K-9 must sniff out a killer. When K-9 task force officer Zach Kelsey's estranged wife is attacked at a...

Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Where'd You Go Bernadette in this witty novel about coming of (middle) age and discovering that you...

A Marriage To Shock Society - Joanna Johnson An accidental introduction, takes them to the altar! Having lived at the Laycock School for Young Ladies since the day she was...

A billionaire for Christmas... or for life? To Konstantin Galanis, heiress Eloise Martin was always strictly off-limits. Too young, too innocent - and his late best friend's sister. Then he...

SHORTLISTED - 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel Gutsy new PI Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted, gritty thriller. Perfect for readers of Sarah Bailey and Jane...

Dangerous Recall - Tyler Anne Snell An unidentified body. A vulnerable client. And a bodyguard pushed to extremes Protecting people is Mack Atwood's job. But when a mysterious murder leaves...

A missing child. A deadly network. A father who will tear it all down. Rex Dalton's world is upended when his college sweetheart reaches out after years of silence. She's...

In the heart of the Andes, an archaeological dream is threatened by a sinister plot. When former black ops field agent Rex Dalton and his trusty K9 companion, Digger, form...

When a beautiful woman breaches Rex Dalton's defences, he will stop at nothing to save her. Ex-military operative Rex Dalton's quest for a new identity in Thailand takes a treacherous...

In a struggle to escape his past, Rex Dalton is unleashed against those who prey on the innocent. To stay alive, Dalton must live as though he's dead, and fleeing...

In a relentless fight to escape his past, Rex Dalton is unleashed against those who prey on the innocent. When Rex Dalton's family is killed in the Madrid train bombings...

Sometimes a victim decides to stop being a victim. Michael Gresham and Marcel, his investigator, go on the hunt for a client's missing wife. She has been nominated to the...

There's a problem with the lawyers in the US Attorney's Office. They're dying. Someone is picking them off, one-by-one. Michael Gresham is assigned to prosecuting the case against the at-large...

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve. Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes,...

A deadly arms shipment, a rigged trial in Russia. Can Michael Gresham navigate a labyrinth of deception to save his clients from execution? When two CIA operatives uncover evidence of...

Who defends the defense lawyer? Michael Gresham's career is hanging by a thread. The lawyer who stops at nothing to defend others, is in the defendant's chair, alone. Enter Harley...

A death in the wilderness.A woman mourns alone.A reporter works a single lead. In the heart of the wilderness, a chilling secret waits to be unearthed. Will Finch, the relentless...

Following on from the seminal book The Early Career Framework: Origins, Outcomes and Opportunities (2022) edited by Tanya Ovenden-Hope, this new book written by Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Holly Kirkpatrick explores...

First in an epic, gritty trilogy from the hottest new voice in British fantasy. It is a time of darkness. The last magic of the dead gods is on the...

The Hugo-nominated, astounding 10-volume, 1,924-page graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu's international bestseller THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM. An investigation into a spate of apparent suicides amongst the world's top scientists leads...

From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales. In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on...

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones . 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat...

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES THE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI PHENOMENON Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough...

The seven houses of the matriarchal Seaborn have plied the seas of the Fair Isles for centuries, trading among the islands and fending off the attacks by the fearsome Bone...

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the...