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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper-...
Hiroshima
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and...
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...
The House by the Lake
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A passionate memoir.?Neil MacGregor'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.? ...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout? - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the ...
Cream Buns and Crime: Tips, Tricks and Tales from the Detective Society (Murder Most Unladylike)
Daisy and Hazel invite you to discover their untold stories ... Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved - but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazel's casebook, from the macabre Case of the Deepdean Vampire, to the baffling Case of the Blue Violet, and ...
Ada
'A lady dancer, a comedienne, and a comic singer. And the head of my own travelling troupe. The Ada Delroy Company, lately extinct.' Meet Ada. Losing her looks but not her touch, waving a morphia cocktail and holding forth from her bed, she's still got some silks, sequins, a scrapbook, and the story of ...
Not Without Laughter
Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas townWhen first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted noveli...
What It Takes: How I Built a $100 Million Business Against the Odds
Draw inspiration from Raegan Moya-Jones' empowering journey and learn how to take the leap into entrepreneurship. Raegan Moya-Jones is one of today's most fascinating entrepreneurs. Growing up a party girl in Australia more interested in travelling the world than holding down a job, she dropped out of ...
All Quiet on the Western Front
In 1914 Paul B umer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story. A few year...
Bad Behavior
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre...
Church of the Open Sky
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...
The Cockroach
Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loat...
Hey Duggee: the Christmas Badge
Based on the Hey Duggee CBeebies Christmas special premiering December 2020!Earn your Christmas Badge with Duggee!It's Christmas at the clubhouse! Duggee's old friend Clarence arrives, but he's lost his Christmas cheer. Can the Squirrels help him get it back?With a super glittery cover, this Hey Duggee ...
Oh She Glows for Dinner - Nourishing Plant-Based Meals to Keep You Glowing
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Angela Liddon, author of The New York Times bestselling Oh She Glows cookbooks, returns to offer readers nourishing plant-based dinners bursting with layers of flavor. For more than a decade, Angela Liddon has been one of the biggest names in the healthy cooking blogosphere. Famous...
Kafka and the Doll
Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the d...
Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy
Jamie's brand-new cookbook, TOGETHER - a joyous celebration of incredible food to share. Being with our loved ones has never felt so important, and great food is the perfect excuse to get together in any fashion. Each chapter features a meal, from seasonal feasts to curry nights, with a simple, achieva...
My Book of Fossils
A friendly first guide to the amazing variety of fossils found on EarthUnearth the treasures from the prehistoric world beneath your feet.From glittering ammonites to razor-sharp dinosaur claws and delicate leaf impressions, uncover our world's primeval past through the incredible fossils left behind. A...
Supercharge Your Brain
Leading brain health expert Professor James Goodwin delivers practical advice on how to optimise our brain's performance and halt cognitive decline.'Some people improve mentally with age - here's how you can be one of them.' Mail on SundayWith a new chapter on Covid and the Brain, this is the definitive...
Names of the Women
An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples of Jesus Christ - and whose roles have been erased from the Gospels From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were...
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