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The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around...

The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k , Get Your Sh*t Together , and You...

Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets. A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O'Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan 'Thrilling,...

Every family has its secrets . . . Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. After all, she's arranged hundreds of them for the travel agency her family runs in the...

'A wonderfully optimistic and original book ... No doubt it will be extremely reassuring for readers and everyone will find some nuggets that are helpful to them' Professor Susan Golombok...

Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, Lost Animals is the story of life on Earth. Over 520 million years...

The incredible finale of the exhilarating paranormal romance trilogy from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Bryn knows first-hand that being the...

Book 2 in the exhilarating paranormal romance trilogy from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Bryn has the usual worries: a new...

Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Tsipras, or even...

Put your pop knowledge to the test with the NME Music Quiz Book. Rediscover your favourite music and memories, from punk to EDM, the Rolling Stones to the Red Hot...

Feel like you've seen these movies before? Spoiler Alert celebrates Hollywood film-making in all its formulaic and predictable glory! Spoiler Alert! takes 38 mainstream movie genres, from 'Teen Sex Comedy'...

Weaving together the great ideas of science, in this, his magnum opus, Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces,...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING IAN McKELLEN It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends...

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing...

We're all feeling poor. Our wages mightn't have risen for a long time, but taxes, food, heating, clothes, pets, driving, kids, booze, leaving the house - and paying for the...

A suspicious device is found inside a suitcase near a nursery in Holon, Tel Aviv. The children are taken to safety; a man is caught fleeing the scene. Then comes...

Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't...

Should companies care about climate change? Should they be vanquishing the gender pay gap? Should they be advancing human rights in their supply chains? And if we think they should...

Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). But imagine for one moment that there are no...

The first book in a new puzzle adventure series takes readers on a thrilling adventure in the company of Knutz, a STEAM whizz-kid, and canine super-inventor Boltz. Knutz and Boltz...

Whoever said being a grownup was easy? If you're up to the challenge, Mastering Adulthood offers smart and entertaining strategies for dealing with difficult emotions like anxiety, sadness, and anger,...

The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture movement of...

This thrilling and intense psychological novel from the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen follows the residents of a rural town in Quebec as they grapple with long-buried secrets coming...

Sometimes the darkest secrets are buried the deepest . . . When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back...

Welcome to the Ooperato Belleza . . . it might save his life, or it just might be the end of him! Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee...

'Stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching' VERONICA ROTH, bestselling author of WHEN AMONG CROWS 'A heartfelt fable about disability and the possibility of reconciling conflicting needs through love and...

The Imposters is the first novel in stories that Tom Rachman has written since his international bestseller The Imperfectionists . 'An astonishing achievement - brutally funny, humane, dizzying - will...

Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or...

'Like its namesake, Silver Nitrate catches fire and doesn't stop burning until the end' The Washington Post 'Perfection. No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister...

Part Two of the Echoes of the City trilogy, set in post-war Oslo, by an author who understands the city like no other. "One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN "Profoundly...

Claire Lidman died fourteen years ago. So why does she appear in the background of a recent holiday snap taken in Venice? Her husband brings the anomaly to Hans Rekke...

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the...

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction. 'An incredibly fast-paced literary thriller ,...

Geraint Thomas's inside guide to twenty-five of the greatest cycling climbs in the world. Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribulations...

"A superior police procedural" Mark Sanderson, The Times Crime Club "Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano" Alessandro Baricco September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery:...

Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography...

The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action . We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world's best solutions...

Linden A. Lewis returns with this next installment of The First Sister Trilogy, perfect for fans of Red Rising , The Handmaid's Tale , and The Expanse. Astrid has reclaimed...

NOVELISTA is a friendly, straight-talking writing guide for people who want to write a novel but don't know how to begin. It asks all the important questions and gives a...

Getting to the top in Business is never straightforward, especially as a woman. This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of...

From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world - how can we adjust to this new reality and what lessons can we...

' A dazzling and joyous celebration ' i-D 'A wonderful book - so timely and much needed. I loved the collection and I hope everyone will read it' Elif Shafak...

From 2001 to 2017 Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple. In Creative Selection he gives his personal account of what it was like to work at...

A dating guide - with bite! For fans of Twilight , The Vampire Diaries and all things supernatural comes a self-help guide you can really sink your teeth in to....

Heaps of funny facts and cartoons about the bug world's most hilarious adaptations! Bugs have developed some of the strangest features and behaviours to survive day in and day out....

Learn all about the STEM-gineers that have shaped our world What is gravity and who discovered its laws? How does evolution work and how did Darwin work it out? Learn...

Are there any inventions older than the wheel? Who invented the computer? What was all the fuss about inventing a flying machine - and was it really that dangerous? Whether...

The second thrilling adventure in a new historical series from million-copy-selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian. Britannia AD 94. On the...