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The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times – Ezra KleinThe Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the…
Immensely readable and gorgeously comic, this is Rebecca’s finest novel yet.
* From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever *
How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plagued people…
Now longlisted for the International Booker Prize, a cabinet of curiosities exploring notions of loss and disappearance by one of Europe’s finest and most original voices
The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year*Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich, an executive producer of HBO’s Succession, a former chief drama critic of The New York Times, and the author of…
Do you waste time overthinking things you can’t do anything about? Do you freak out when things don’t go to plan? Does anxiety get in the way of you living your best life?
When life hands you a big fat f**king lemon, Calm the F**k Downgives you practical ways to manage the situation, not to mention your…
”Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again.”-David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonOne of the New York Times’ ”20 most…
Kategorier: Konst
The official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.
Paris, J’Adore! is Emily Cooper’s diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to starting at marketing firm Savoir in Paris, it reveals all the thrill, fear and confusion Emily experiences as…
An unexpected love story from the bestselling author of In Five Years
**THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK!**
**The sixth in the Millennium series – more than 100 million copies sold worldwide**
”Expertly told, the plot crackles with life” DAILY MAIL
”Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read” SUNDAY EXPRESS
”Exciting and disturbing”…
’A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!’ Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series
’Continuous action, Mach-speed mayhem, sharp intrigue, and well-rounded…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, the bestselling book that changed countless boys’ lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves.
What have the footballer Kylian Mbappé, the philosopher Socrates and the singer Ed…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED THE ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM’Gareth Southgate’s secret weapon’ – Guardian’A copy of Eastwood’s new book, Belonging, was given to every England player when they reported for duty at the European Championships’ –…
’Beth O’Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book’ Emily Henry
Two sworn enemies. A failing hotel. One chance to save the season…
It’s the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling…
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON.
Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:
Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women’s prison for saving a young boy’s life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.
Mikael Blomkvist makes…
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart…
BOOK ONE IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A RICHARD & JUDY PICK. WINNER OF THE USA’S BARRY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR.PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES’One of the best regarded crime series of recent years’ Independent
A brutal…
An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity’s greatest mysteries – the origins of language.
”Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another” A.J. FINN
It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622.This anomaly piques the interest of Joel Dicker, Switzerland’s most famous literary star, who…
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is…
A wonderful idea and, pun intended, brilliantly executed’ Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants
Frances always said she’d be murdered.She was right.
In 1965, seventeen-year-old Frances Adams was told by a fortune teller that one day she’d be murdered. Frances spent the next sixty years trying to…
THE CHINESE ”LORD OF THE RINGS” – NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES – 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD.
”Jin Yong’s work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of ”Harry Potter”…
The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a mesmerising feminist re-imagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemi.
You have to save me. When glamorous socialite…
A poignant fictional oral history of the beloved rock ’n’ roll duo who shot to fame in the 1970s New York, and the dark, fraught secret that lies at the peak of their stardom.
A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever.
Opal is a fiercely…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Reportage och samlingar av journalistiska texter
”[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum” Telegraph
”Essential reading” History Today”A moving evocation . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state.” Clarissa de Waal, author of…
The bestselling book everyone is talking about, revealing the surprising art of caring less and getting more.
’Genius’ Cosmopolitan’The best book I have read recently . . . Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it’ Mail on Sunday’The anti-guru’ ObserverAre you stressed out, overbooked…
THE BESTSELLING GLOBAL PHENOMENON
Meet Lisbeth Salander – the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
”As vivid as bloodstains on snow . . . a perfect introduction to the unique strengths ofScandinavian crime fiction”LEE CHILD
Lisbeth Salander gets under the skin of her…
Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion.
When Samson Kolechko’s father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead…
It was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night.
Megan Phelps-Roper was…
Love, in all its permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr’s breathtaking debut, The Prophets.
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when…
The unmissable new book in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Ruth and Nelson are working on a murder case in which Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect. Can they uncover the truth in time to save their friend?’GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE’ The Times ’SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK.…
THE CHINESE ”LORD OF THE RINGS” – NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES – 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD.
”Jin Yong’s work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of ”Harry Potter”…
’A fascinating treasure trove for plant lovers and gardeners alike.’ – Frances Tophill
Often beautiful and sometimes strange, flowering plants have evolved to become masters of seduction.
We are surrounded by extraordinary partnerships between plants and the birds, bees and other insects that…