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Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times 'The Gardener and the Carpenter should be required reading for anyone who is, or is thinking of becoming a parent' Financial Times Caring deeply a…

The first complete English-language edition of Calvino's early short story collection.These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuou…

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes. But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world? 'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times ___…

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect…

Returning to the short prose of Autumn and Winter, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about summer nights to circuses, lawn sprinklers to Mixmasters. But he also writes a diary, where the small events in a fa…

A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place that…

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century. 'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph 'A formidable book .…

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and def…

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series in this beautiful gift edition. 'I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light …

The New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance delivers her most intimate and powerful work- a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry…

**A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. McKinsey & Company have earned billions…

'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the pr…

'Absolutely fascinating . . . A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books' Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton Angels 'Hugely entertaining . . . a propulsive if unlikely t…

In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by a 'mischievous' animal he met in the Falklands: rare, crow-like falcons known today as striated caracaras. These clever, fearless birds of prey stole hats and…

"Bjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned 50 and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his m…

From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications 'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical…

The Heartbreaking French Bestseller When Antoine lost his wife, Hélène, he was left to care for their baby alone. In this wry and honest book he writes about how they have fared since that terrible da…

'As compelling as it is tough, sidestepping piety in favour of clear-eyed infectious anger' Sunday Times Irene Dalila Mwathi comes from Kenya with a brutally violent personal history. Once she wanted …

With a new introduction by VAL McDERMID When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is faced with a difficult situation. Glasgow police view her as both…

'A poet of the short story, Stuart Dybek is a strange and exceptional talent... Impressive.' Phil Baker, Sunday Times An Observer Book of the Year Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up and falling i…

21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Mark…

'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL 'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY A mind-expanding, revolutionary journey across time that shows how our biology has determined human history for the first time. This book will …

Joyeux Noel! Merry Christmas! These festive stories welcome Christmas la fran aise - delicious, chic and unexpected. Sparkling Parisian streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, oyster…