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What if your soulmate could only ever be the love of your afterlife?
The first time Emery dies, she is only five years old… Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do – if they act quickly enough there will be no…
’A thoroughly modern love story with old-fashioned heart’ Vogue___________________
Meet Ursula
35-year-old Ursula Byrne is successful, witty, smart, and single. She’s tried all the dating apps, and let’s just say: she’s underwhelmed by her options.
Enter The Arc
A mysterious,…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing autobiography of one of Britain’s most successful international cyclists of the modern era
’Getting in a break was my one chance of winning. The hard part was working out, again and again, how to make that…
From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will ’break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy.’ Rumaan Alam
Growing up , TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents – Mae and Jin – took him in. Their family bakery…
As a midwife working in rural poverty during the Depression, Patience Murphy’s only solace is her gift: the chance to escort mothers through the challenges of childbirth. Just beginning, she takes on the jobs no one else wants: those most in need-and least likely to pay. Patience is willing to do what it takes to…
’Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most’ Emma Gannon, author of Olive
’So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days
Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death.…
’I cannot say enough about How to Read Now… Check it out’ Roxane Gay’A red-hot grenade… One of my favourite books of the year’ Jia Tolentino’Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny’ Andrew Sean Greer’I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . .…
’A good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story’ Sara Novic
A feminist coming-of-age tale from a debut author – playful, feminist historical fiction for readers of Sarah Waters, Charles Portis and Anna North
In the summer of 1877, Bridget is orphaned when her unreliable father succumbs to a…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The perfect getaway – to get away with murder… Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort.
But could a star open-water swimmer really have…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
’Profound [and] compelling’ Spectator’Thoughtful [and] heartfelt’ Observer’A noble endeavour’ New Statesman’A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book’ Tristan Gooley’Compelling and well-balanced… valuable and poignant’ Times Literary…
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions, its beauty.
What Penaluna didn’t realize was…
’Extraordinary… A fascinating and intelligent book.’ Sunday TimesNew islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an…
’Carries distinct shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt… Supremely gripping’ Vogue, Best Books of 2022
A struggling author is stuck at the airport, his flight endlessly delayed. As he kills time, he bumps into a former classmate of his, Jeff, who is waiting for the same flight. Jeff invites the…
’Superbly realised. You’ll go a long way before you find a better-written thriller this year’ THE TIMES
Breathtaking . . . filled with twists and turns’ JEFFERY DEAVER
*Featured on The Times’ Best Summer Reading of 2022**Featured on Crimereads’ Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022!*…
Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice…
An audacious and transformative novel on the past, the present and the power of writing from the award-winning author of Damascus.
Monster. Martyr. Mother.
On Emilia Morris’s thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023’Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely transcendent… A luminously told, whole-life story of a young boy discovering how to be his own man.’ Guardian
Ned West dreams of sailing across the…
Hans Stichler’s uncomplicated German childhood ends abruptly when his aunt invites him to study at Cambridge, where she teaches. She will ensure his application is accepted, but in return he must help her investigate an elite university society, the Pitt Club, which has existed for centuries, its long legacy of…
Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think?
Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this entertaining and groundbreaking book, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder breaks down…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
’Utterly fascinating.’ James Holland
’First-class… The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never been told better.’ Andrew Roberts
Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel became among…
A proven, practical and motivational guide to the 10 psychological characteristics displayed by high achievers, that we can all develop in order to be more successful in life and work.
’An inspiring and practical guide, showing how we can all use our strengths to achieve success’ – Dame Kelly…
The definitive edition of Minette Walters’ thrilling tale of courage and defiance during the time of the Black Death, featuring The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight. England, 1348: A deadly plague is spreading across the land, and people are dying by the thousands. In Dorset, young Lady Anne takes control…
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the mid-Atlantic floor, Leigh joins the investigating team; what she…
Given that millions of women have entered menopause each year since the dawn of time, it’s bizarre that it still feels like uncharted territory for the women who are going through it. Dr. Heather Hirsch is committed to changing that. Unlock Your Menopause Type helps women cut through the informational noise and…
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit’s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They’ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into the local dive bar like old times. But it’s soon clear that…
During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father’s house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What…
A captivating economic history of government all over the world
’What you are about to read is a call to arms. Best to prepare for a confrontation.’ New York Times Book Review
’A hard-hitting masterpiece. I devoured it.’ Kristen Arnett, author of WITH TEETH
’A madcap story you won’t want to put down’ Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be?Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter how educated you are, this book suggests you are likely to be very wrong indeed.…
Abby Lamb has done it. She’s found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She’s venomous…
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald ’Sully’ Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is taken over by its much wealthier neighbour, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his…
First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a ’truth serum’ by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in April 1943 led to a mass exploitation of this promising hallucinogen.
Using archival material, Norman Ohler brings to light the often misguided interaction…
From the author of Ayesha At Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of You’ve Got Mail. Hana Khan’s family-run halal restaurant is on its last legs. So when a flashy competitor gets ready to open nearby, bringing their inevitable closure even closer, she turns to her anonymously-hosted podcast, and…
’Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark… A one-sitting read.’ Andrea Mara_____________________________When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find…
Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old stage-school buddy, Adam Harker, is on the brink of…
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and New Statesman***
Across the West, racial injustice has become one of the most divisive issues of our age. In the rush to address inequality and prejudice, and to understand concerns around identity, immigration and colonial…