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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 ’A thrilling deep-dive through our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we are the way we are – and what wisdom we’ve lost along the way’ Cal Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment ’A wild ride: brave, outrageous, hilarious,…
Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a great disservice to the sensory experience, Sensational argues. In fact, we could have as many as fifty-three – and they could explain such mysteries as why we kiss, in…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Projektledning
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTHA FAST COMPANY TOP SUMMER PICK ’Well-written, cogent and useful manual’ – David Allen, author of Getting Things Done ’Forte’s ideas really work.’ – Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing …
’Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat’ Stephen Poole, Guardian ’An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors’ Sunday Times ’Enjoyable … engaging ……
From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic – children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ice slowly melting in a cocktail glass. But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems … In these 10 classic crime stories of midsummer murder and madness, the mercury is climbing – and so is the…
The fourth volume in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling Murdle puzzle series! ’UTTERLY ADDICTIVE!’ JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE TWYFORD CODE and THE APPEAL ’AN ABSOLUTE PHENOMENON’ RICHARD OSMAN, bestselling author of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES Deductive Logico returns in Murdle:…
The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After…
THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way. Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in…
Thomas Brogan is a serial killer. With a trail of bodies in his wake and the police hot on his heels, it seems like Thomas has nowhere left to hide. That is until he breaks into an abandoned house at the end of a terrace on a quiet street. And when he climbs up into the loft, he realises that he can drop down into all…
’Original and illuminating … what a good book this is’ Jonathan Dimbleby ’A love letter to the people of the Old City’ Jerusalem Post In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER To master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions. This ancient virtue of self-control is more essential than ever. In this bestselling book, Ryan Holiday makes the case for this essential virtue, and shows how to cultivate willpower, self-respect and…
’The Singularity’ is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning Management: ledarskap och motivation
Between the theories of business school and the real world of business, there is still a gap – one that can only be filled by experience, helped by the knowledge of someone who has already done it. Over a lifetime as one of the world’s most influential business leaders, Mark McCormack gathered more…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Increasingly, we think and act as if the divides between us are unbridgeable: rather than reaching out and finding paths to reconciliation, we bunker down, create filter bubbles, build walls and gentrify neighbourhoods in a great rush to find our tribe and isolate ourselves within it. As crisis after crisis hits us, we…
’The first, last, best, and only scientific guide to learning in the classroom’ Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham helps you study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress and make…
On a balmy evening in late March, an oligarch’s wife hosts a party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives. Tables cover the massive deck, adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of celebrities. Uniformed staff flank a red carpet on the landing dock. This is what Kata has wanted for a long time:…
’The feminist update to Rosemary’s Baby we all needed’ – ANDREA BARTZ ’A darkly visceral and magically evocative novel’ – SARAH LAWTON I wanted this baby so badly. But she may be the death of me… Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her…
Winner of a PEN Translates Award Named a Most Anticipated Book by Literary Hub When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention centre. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges. Ten listless days stretch before Anya…
A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility.
In this revolutionary guide to learning, Professor Dan Willingham uses fascinating brain science to help you study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress and make learning a skill you can master and enjoy. Outsmart Your Brain offers specific strategies for reading, listening and taking tests, covering…
Your inbox is at max capacity. So is your brain. Your document filing system just means making more folders. You’ve lost count of the number of browser tabs you have open. You’re entirely dependent on the ’search’ function on your phone… In other words, your digital life is a mess. But…
What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad needs guidance: because fatherhood is not a one-off, it is something you do every day. Instead of a parenting book you read once as a sleep-deprived new parent, The Daily Dad provides…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
’Everything Wharton-Malcolm does has the aim of helping people achieve the best version of themselves’ Evening Standard Think running isn’t for you? Running coach Cory Wharton-Malcolm challenges this idea head-on with this joyful love letter to running and motivational guide for beginners. Advocating…
’Utterly charming … Bordas is an invaluable new voice’ George Saunders Every comedian knows that there’s a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that any moment in life, however painful or triumphant, has the potential to become a punchline. At the Chicago…
In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write.
It is the story of his childhood companions and the killer that stalked their small New England town. Of the body they found, the horror of that discovery echoing down the decades. And of Sky, Wilder’s one-time…
’A welcome addition to darkly humorous female serial killer novels’ – GUARDIAN ’Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny’ – CLARE MACKINTOSH ’Delightfully shocking and irreverently funny’ – JANICE HALLETT I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die.…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
A provocative, intimate essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
’Thought-provoking … a welcome antidote to the simplistic and divisive thinking that can sometimes taint the well-meaning world of conservation.’ Katie Burton, Geographical Our planet hasn’t seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global…
’A classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani’s Lullaby… A hot holiday read’ Sunday Times ’A superb debut novel… Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas’s scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich’ Observer ’A dark…
*** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL *** ’Agatha Christie for the 21st century’ – THE TIMES ’The queen of tricksy crime’ – SUNDAY TIMES Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now… The students of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course have been…
’DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK’ – STEPHEN KING
’Creepy, individual and gripping’ – IAN RANKIN
’A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with twists’ – ALEX MICHAELIDES
’Brilliant and moving’ – SARAH PINBOROUGH
Rob is afraid of her daughter. Callie…
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at…
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan’s commitment to seeking out the…
The face of hunger is changing. Since the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even the West is experiencing a level of food insecurity not seen for generations. Climate change is already resulting in food-related migration, and the world will soon see significant shifts in the location of arable…
’Mind-bendingly brilliant. Agatha Christie on steroids!’ TIM GLISTER, author of RED CORONA ’It gripped me for a week. Incredible!’ JANICE HALLETT, author of THE TWYFORD CODE A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can unwind time… In the former mining town of Black Lake, there is…