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From Ice Cube to You Tube via 'Singlish' and Bouncebackability - Mark Abley travels the globe to report on the dynamic new forces shaping the future of the English language...

'This is the best book about sex I have read in a long time' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to...

'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect...

What happens when a holiday romance becomes serious? The Sunday Times besteller from the bestselling authors of fun romantic novels and entertaining family sagas including The Seven Year Itch and...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved....

Just as celebrated columnist Katie Kiernan thinks life is over, it suddenly arrives on her doorstep in the shape of her sister Michelle, and all the intrigue Michelle brings with...

'A masterpiece of biographical investigation' Richard Holmes In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady,...

There is a story behind each letter of the alphabet. Why is X the Unknown or shorthand for a kiss? Which letter came last, historically, in the alphabet? (J). How...

A gripping action thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of Ultimate Weapon. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will love this gripping, no-holds-barred, all-action thriller...

Don Domenico has a suprise in store for his family. He wants them to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. Nothing unusual about that. Except that...

A gorgeous novel from the best-selling author of Flora's Lot A Highland textile mill in need of saving. A handsome yet abrasive stranger. A life adventure awaits... from the bestselling...

In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the...

Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure...

When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother has cancer, her father insists that Ellen come home to look after Kate. Ellen has always been the special child, the high achiever,...

The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth uses the personal to explore the 'birth myth', the culture and practices of pregnancy and childbirth, with ferocity and passion. Every year, millions...

Jack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days - that he is lucky to be alive. His face...

"The author reveals that Washington DC's layout and architecture was devised according to occult principles and that it is in effect a magical spell set in store." "Today there are...

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...' In A Man Walks On to a Pitch,...

A moving and inspirational true story of a little girl determined to make life better for her family 'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was...

The principles of creativity revealed in deceptively simple words and pictures by the man behind the world's most successful advertising agency Simplicity looks easy. It's not. It's easier to complicate...

Don t forget, Wexford said, I ve lived in a world where the improbable happens all the time. However, the impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He...

Mary Beth has built her life around her close knit and much loved family- husband Glen, a successful ophthalmologist, their beautiful and talented 17 year old daughter Ruby, and 14...

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in...

A tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of THE MISSING A serial killer who wants to watch you burn... The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer...

Brett Dalton is a tough guy - hardened, angry, uncaring and always ready to use his fists. When the world hates you, you might as well hate it back... But...

Annuals & perennials have always held a special appeal because of the vast array of colour, size and style of plants available. In fact, their versatility provides the gardener with...

The sun shone intensely on the island of Djerba in Tunisia. The beige earth refracted heat with the dry odour of ripe fennel and thyme.' Rachida has been lucky all...

Recent research has shown that oils - from peachnut to passion flower - have attributes which, when taken regularly and in the right way, can have remarkable therapeutic effects. Whether...

Special operational forces have been used since war began, and great reliance is laid upon them in the modern era. This is an illustrated account of the evolution and modern...

Never miss another deadline! A proven method that defeats procrastination forever by conquering emotions, not time management Procrastination is a serious and costly problem. And time management isn't the solution....

Currently, there are more than 5 million electronic trading accounts in the United States, and millions more are expected to open accounts in the next two years, topping more than...

Fans of Allison Saft and Margaret Rogerson will be swept away into this lush and beguiling sapphic romantasy from the bestselling author of Flowerheart, Catherine Bakewell. Ofelia has lived her...

With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait"...

Former friends and former flames reunite on a mayhem-spike quest in this cozy romantasy perfect for readers of Legends & Lattes and lovers of Shrek . "This delightful novel has...

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an...

Yellowjackets meets One of Us Is Lying in this masterful survival thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst. "Formidably scary, Durst's survival/horror story is the stuff of...

Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence Why is our society so politically polarized...