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In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are...

The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key...

Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, elite populists, and freextremists are exploiting our digital information infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to distort and undermine our politics and...

January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron Curtain has descended...

Hello, Shadowlands is the story of Southeast Asia's anarchic enclaves and their hidden connections to the West. There is no better place to observe the clash between old codes and...

New York Times -bestselling author: This richly imagined urban fantasy novel set in London's supernatural black market reads like a cross between Clive Barker and Anne Rice There's an underground...

Million-selling wellbeing guru and psychiatrist's guide to why our addiction to technology causes us to feel anxious, stressed and lost - and what we can do to take back control....

A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature - No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction. 'A masterpiece of hurt' New York Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...

A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp,...

Most commonly known for winning the first soccer World Cup, electing the world's so-called 'poorest president', and raising a whole lot of beef on the pampa, Uruguay remains among South...

A short story in James Patterson's hit series starring everyone's favourite underdog Just when school was at its suckiest, things take a turn for the better when a cool, mysterious...

1942, and the battle for Stalingrad is just beginning- this is historical fiction at its finest and most epic by Simon Sebag Montefiore, global bestselling author of Stalin- The Court...

A frank, funny and tender new book from Christie Watson about the search for meaning in mid-life 'A wildly entertaining and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY 'A must-read for every woman'...

When Matilda discovers a treasure map inside an old bottle, she shows it to the Jolley-Rogers and they all set sail to find the mysterious island. Only to end up...

How to Vanquish a Virus is a funny, fascinating blend of facts, quotes and science stories from the world of health research and science history. In the wake of Covid-19,...

A quirky kid donates her beloved panda sweater, and through this act of sacrifice gains a new friend. With whimsical, contemporary artwork, this story balances the topic of selflessness with...

Pagan Portals - Nature Mystics traces the lives and work of ten writers who contributed to the cultural environment that allowed Modern Paganism to develop and flourish throughout the twentieth...

Dorr was once a city of merriment, music and dancing. Now it lies grey and silent under the spell of the witch Sirdis. When a young princess arrives in Dorr...

1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have...

'In a very noisy house in a very noisy city lived three noisy foxes.' The foxes decide that it would be nice to be quiet sometimes and set off to...

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the...

EVERYTHING IS MADE OF MAGIC . . . Effie Truelove and friends Lexy, Wolf, Maximilian and Raven must use their magical skills to defeat the Diberi, a corrupt organisation intent...

Join Lizzie and the gang as they try to uncover the identity of the mysterious phantom. In Victorian London a masked figure has been robbing houses and evading the police....

Lizzie is proud of her psychic powers so becomes enraged at the fakery she sees all around her. People are flocking to see Douglas Grant a man who claims to...

Lizzie and the circus are in Whitby a town that doesn't seem to want them there. The only friendly faces are the glamorous Maharajah and his beautiful but secretive wife....

In rural Bethnal Green, Lizzie Brown takes pity on a couple of drunks and gives them a free palm reading.y However, she is horrified when she has a vision of...

'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS . The violent and predatory society of...

What would it take to make you a killer? One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100k in cash. The only condition is that if...

Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ebb and flow with increasing...

"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....

'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...

'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....

Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it...

The stunning conclusion to the mind-bending series Shuos Jedao is awake... ...and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet-a nobody-in the body of an old man; a...

Presenting Druidry in an easy-to-understand way, making the concepts open to everyone. Pagan Portals - The Urban Ovate, continues the process started by Brendan Howlin in The Handbook of Urban...

One love letter can change everything... The new Rose Harbor novel from the international bestselling author of Rose Harbor in Bloom and Blossom Street Brides. Ellie travels to Rose Harbor...

It is 2047: fourteen years since Jacob Gabriel descended into the Mayan netherworld, while his twin brother turned from their chosen path, opting to remain behind. Immanuel Gabriel - still...

After sacrificing himself to preserve the human race, Michael Gabriel is imprisoned in a torturous, purgatory-like dimension in the Mayan netherworld. The Mayan prophecy states that the Hero Twins -...

On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle. Archaeologist Julius Gabriel dies certain of one fact: that, on this date, the human race will cease...