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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…
A gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway series – a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, cosy crime and TV series such as Grantchester and Midsomer Murders. ’Griffiths writes with a smart, sharp eye’ Peter James’Recalls the best of Agatha…
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…
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…
A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital – by one of Sweden’s most exciting literary talents ”I’ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am,” he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim – charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends…
Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there – and starts to…
Claire Wright likes to play other people.
A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.
When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation,…
Once inseparable, Joel and Nina haven’t spoken in twenty years. When Joel’s mother Monika develops dementia, he has no choice but to return to his home town. Monika needs specialist care, and that means Pineshade – which also means Joel is going to have to deal with his one-time best friend, for Nina…
Constance Verity – soon to be played on the big screen by Crazy Rich Asians superstar Awkwafina! – is still saving the universe, one crisis at a time – but now the rules have changed. Constance Verity is still saving the universe, one crisis at a time, but the rules have changed.
She’s managed…
From Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes a dark, enigmatic, compelling new adventure.
That awkward moment when your date turns up wearing a T-shirt in subzero weather, just to display a ’Tough Mudder: Finisher’ t-shirt. Or when you find out your flatmate’s password is cryptolegend007. Or when you overhear a loud conversation (with no one) at the checkout queue about how…
THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR27 MILLION BOOKS SOLDWINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARDIn the penultimate thriller in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, Copenhagen’s cold cases division must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades.On…
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from ’recycled material’, ’bioplastic’ or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental…
The best-selling and award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal Brge Hellstrm are Sweden’s most acclaimed fiction duo. Roslund and Hellstrm combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots, propelling them to the forefront of…
When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai’s serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a…
Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus’ son Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive from an address in Arnold’s patch in east London, the superintendent doesn’t know who else to turn to. Arnold and his partner Mumtaz…
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.
So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow…
**THE BRAND-NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
**’A TERRIFIC WRITER’ MARK BILLINGHAM**
**PETER MAY: OVER 5.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**
In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is…
’It should be mandatory reading … Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know’ Emma Gannon
Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of…
”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…
It’s never too late to grow the f*ck up.
And New York Times bestselling author Sarah Knight is hereto help! With her no-bullsh*t bible for the modern adult, you’ll become more self-aware, self-sufficient and resourceful – and turn grownup responsibilities into exciting opportunities for making YOUR…
’Deeply moving’ Katie Fforde’Wise and wonderful’ Veronica Henry’Compelling and beautifully written’ Sarah Morgan
The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets. Thirty-something sisters Leni and Alice…
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC (July 2020) and VELVET WAS THE NIGHT (August 2021), comes UNTAMED SHORE, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-age story with a classical noir.
’Brutality takes on an almost divine quality’ LA Review of Books
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Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS.
Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel.
He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in…
Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. He is a religious man who is close to losing his faith; the very nature of his job has led him to question the existence of a God who could allow the things that Gil sees every day. But Gil’s wife Ruth doesn’t see things the same…
It’s early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she’s excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means.…
A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
’IT’LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR’ Hannah Beckerman
For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose…
A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur from the author of the No 1 bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. A murderer hides in plain sight – in the police.
DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret – but it’s one she’s deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she…
’This book is pure, sexy, dirty joy’ Goodreads reviewer on That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists while others were of princesses trapped in towers guarded by fierce dragons.…
Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is available. No longer confined to restrictive print schedules or occasional broadcast slots, fashion has become an ever-present content driver. With retailers, brands and designers all in on the…
From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy – but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone’s setting the seven up for a fall.
Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is,…
”I’ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am,” he whispers, kissing her neck.
Jim – charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends – has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his…