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'Sensual, poetic, and full of delicious, excruciating yearning' Ali Hazelwood Clementine Clark isn't looking for love. She's a talented singer, but she's set her dreams of stardom - and romance...

Master the technology reshaping our world today. In a series of 50 accessible essays, Keith Mansfield introduces and explains the essential concepts, ideas and key thinkers behind artificial intelligence. From...

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Get in tune with the rhythms of nature with this month-by-month guide to foraging. Learn how to identify wild plants correctly, harvest them at their prime, and use them in...

'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer 'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca Wait 'Climb up...

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO RETURNS "Not just the extraordinary conclusion to the trilogy, but a work that contains its own fully-rounded plot . . . Brilliant" V al...

Longlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2025 Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise...

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child 'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Nazi troops in blizzard...

After her magnificent historical epic, The Beasts of Paris , Stef Penney returns to her heartland in this tense thriller set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in...

The hero Tungdil Goldhand vanished years ago. Until the gem-carver Goimron discovers Tungdil's diary . . . and finds that the last entries are terrifyingly recent. Goimron gathers a small...

A state of emergency has been declared in the UK. A complete night-time switch off has begun. From now on, at 8pm every night, all electricity cuts out. The Government...

"READ THIS BOOK AND USE IT." TIM FERRISS Millions of highly effective people have become more successful by understanding the simple fact that 80% of your results come from 20%...

'A festive feast of a novel ... I absolutely loved it!' CATHY KELLY Dreams are for living... Ever since Catherine and her mother Ann opened the doors of their bookshop...

'Full of practical advice on how to help you survive and thrive in an uncertain world.' MICHAEL MOSLEY 'Tells you how to duck and dive when the unexpected surprises are...

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into...

This book offers a path to well-being and satisfaction for the anxious and exhausted and anyone charmed by concepts such as hygge , ikigai , and wabi sabi. Psychologist Scott...

Perfect for fans of Horrible Histories and Dog Man - in this totally TRUE graphic novel, the animals of the past are here to tell you what REALLY happened in...

Ghost Boys, the New York Times bestselling novel about a Black boy killed by a white police officer from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, is brought to a new audience...

From the illustrator of Bob Dylan's If Not for You comes a wildly cute, encouraging picture book about a lovable lion who learns to be brave and that you're never...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop '[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record Collector The...

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the...

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** For the mothers of the disappeared in 1970s Argentina, protest was difficult. Every Thursday they marched in front of government buildings...

The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes...

In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens...

'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai , internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child 'A celebration of complicity and love among women' Pilar Quintana ,...

*** NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES, STARRING CONNIE NIELSEN AND CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON *** She can't remember the last year. Her husband wants to keep it that way. Dramatic psychological suspense...

'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and constantly make yourself new' Glennon...

How do we combat racism in a world determined to tell us it doesn't exist? To hold the line against racism, we need to know it when we see it....

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary 'A...

'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLS This is the definitive tale of how our...

When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as...

Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told....

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become...

This next installment in the Vacation Crosswords series features 54 easy-to-easyishthemed daily crosswords edited byStanley Newman, originally published in Newsday (updated, ofcourse, to reflect any facts that have changed since...

'Brimful of charm' Heather Fawcett, bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series ' A tale as warm as a cup of spiced chai on a chilly evening ' Sarah Mughal...

Cherub Series 1 Collection 5 Books Set (Books 1 To 5) By Robert Muchamore (Class A, Divine Madness, The Recruit, The Killing, Maximum Security)

The ability to understand and perform well in psychometric tests is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Gareth Lewis and Gene Crozier, leading experts on...

Do you want to be able to read Sanskrit with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself the No. 1 brand in language learning....

Unlike a phrasebook or a dictionary, Essential French Vocabulary will take your existing knowledge and build on it systematically and organically, so that you will increase your vocabulary and at...

Your guide to the emotions of pregnancy and early motherhood, from top reproductive psychiatrists Dr Alexandra Sacks and Dr Catherine Birndorf. With a combined thirty years of counselling new and...

Born to rule. Blessed by fire. Broken by desire. . . In A Fate Forged in Fire , a powerfully blessed blacksmith must use her wits and fire magic to...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A snowy escape. A charming stranger. A Christmas she'll never forget... Music has always been Hailey Morgan's greatest love, but her dream of becoming a...

In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events...

'Under Their Roof... does so much more than chronicle her time living with the Wests. It's a desperately sad insight into what makes someone vulnerable to abusers... but ultimately, this...

'A triumph of storytelling' Guardian THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, SEPTEMBER 2025 A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it...

'Packed with action' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An incendiary thrill ride' HEAT 'A pure hitman thriller with cinematic flair' THE I PAPER ___________ In his latest gripping adventure, the world's deadliest assassin...

A whistle-stop guide to some of history's brilliantly bizarre drinking games, from the notorious to the wisely forgotten. As long as there have been people, there has been drinking -...