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’Fascinating…. Wonderfully exhilarating.’ Mail on SundayAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of…
Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she’s not listening to grizzly murder podcasts, she’s managing her crippling phobia of bald people and trying hard not to think about her mortifying teenage years – which is hard, when she’s…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg. Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition. A Guardian Book of the YearLooking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the…
’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,…
’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!*…
Not all missing girls want to be found . . .
*FEATURED IN SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, APPLE’S BEST BOOKS, AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF JUNE,CRIMEREADS RECOMMENDS AND LITHUB’S TOP BOOKS*’SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD, BUCKLE UP: Killingly is hitting the Plain Bad Heroines place in my heart…
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan – a Tamil dishwasher and…
’Subtle and compelling.’ Observer
Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled ’snowflakes’? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children’s futures? Are Generation X the saddest generation? Will Generation Z fix the climate crisis? In this original and deeply…
’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 . . .…
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…
For decades, a secret network in Stockholm has been exploiting young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who threatens to reveal their secret. As oddly paired duo Teddy and Emelie – the thug and the lawyer – investigate, the terrifying noose tightens. The police force has established a special team to…
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…
Have you heard that Bill Gates is running a secret genocidal plot? That the war in Ukraine isn’t real? Or that people are paid to act out some of the worst attacks imaginable?
In Among the Trolls, BBC reporter Marianna Spring meets the most committed conspiracy theorists – and their victims. Far from a…
’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…
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 perfect beach read: chaotic, darkly funny and keeps you on your toes’ Liv Little for Elle UK
’A bold, daring take on the wild, unconventional world of sugar babies’ Harper’s Bazaar
’I’m going to be recommending this brilliant book to EVERYBODY. Glamorous, and dark, and…
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.…
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…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Go behind the scenes with Eddie ’The Beast’ Hall as we follow his incredible journey from World’s Strongest Man to competing in ’The Heaviest Boxing Match in History’ against his nemesis Hafthor ’Thor’ Bjornsson.
’No human can visualise the impossible like this…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
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…
NAMED A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023
’Passionate, clever, and often very funny’ Marina Hyde’A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth’ Rory Stewart***Chosen as a 2023 Non-Fiction highlight in the Guardian, New Statesman and Irish Times***
We live in an age of…
’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…
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…
***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…
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.
’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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
’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…
ONE OF LIT HUB’S TOP CRIME NOVELS OF 2023’A haunting story . . . will stay with me long after reading’ ELIZABETH LEE, author of Cunning Women’Completely engrossing. I was half-charmed, half-horrified by every peculiar character and every unexpected twist. Unforgettable!’ MARTHA CONWAY,…