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Elegant, mature and richly atmospheric, a bittersweet love story glimpsed through the veil of memory
’The love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited… Sublime and elegiac’ Francesca Reece
’[A] heady mix of hope and nostalgia, of desire and regret, of new love and lost love’…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES
’Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility’ The New York Times
The lifeblood of any free society is…
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.
’Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with’ Max Porter
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language…
The story of the Higgs boson – the so-called ’God particle’ – and the man who thought of it
In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomiska system och strukturer Nationalekonomi
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
’Galvanizing and uplifting’ The Guardian
’Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever’ Owen Jones
It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. It’s OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a…
House witch Finlay Ashowan is pulled out of the kitchen-and into the fire-as war, family, and love collide in the third book of this fantasy romance series.
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Having somehow convinced Lady Annika Jenoure to marry him, all Finlay Ashowan wants to do is settle down, cook some good meals, and enjoy a quiet life in…
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.
How do we build enduring and honest relationships?What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt?What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
In her bestselling follow-up to the…
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithMagical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by…
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set…
Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters, Jean Rhys’s semi-autobiographical portrayal of a young woman’s sexual encounters is a searingly honest exploration…
Every day, an unseen form of labour creeps into our lives, stealing precious moments of free time, placing a strain on our schedules and relationships, and earning neither appreciation nor compensation in return. Scheduling doctor’s appointments. Planning a party. Buying a present. Filling out paperwork. This…
”A clever, compassionate and humorous look at teenage kicks and sectarian strife in early 80s Northern Ireland” Guardian
School is almost over – and for Paddy, Liz, Christy and Kevin it’s time to figure out what’s next. But before they start the rest of their lives, these teenagers have…
’Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.’
A woman’s teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The …
’Mesmerising’ Sunday TimesAs an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral – no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will have to get his hands dirty.
His mission is…
”Superb…Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography” Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol’s Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
’I want to press it on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?’ Sophie McBain, New Statesman ’Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st…
Naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity.
1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant. England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men within a corrupt government manipulate a weak king – and name Cecily’s husband, York’s loyal duke, an enemy. As the king’s grasp on sanity weakens, plots to destroy York…
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER’The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date’ Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny’A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler’s failed invasion of the Soviet Union…
THREE GIRLS MISSING
Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car – her friends have vanished.
THEY ARE NEVER SEEN AGAIN
Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: folk och länder Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the warriors from the north – the Vikings…’Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*
’This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able…
A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home
James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of Cabbages & Kimchi, he takes the ten greatest ’living’ ferments – fermented foods that are neither cooked nor pasteurized – and places them under the microscope, before…
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
This candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry when it was published…
Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.
But when the London streets below her window fall…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Management och företagsledning
’David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis’ Rory Stewart
’An extraordinary achievement. Probably the best book ever written on crisis management’ Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the Realm
We never know when a crisis might explode. Some ’sudden impact’ events, such…
Discover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns
From the great cities of Europe to the jungles of Burma, and from the deserts of North Africa to the remote islands of the South Pacific and the freezing waters of the…
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and…
From L.J. Shen, the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Reckless, comes a brand new book in the All Saints series.
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a…
Genius Gut is a modern guide on what and how to eat for a great life inside and out from Dr Emily Leeming, former ZOE lead scientist which draws on her clinical and research expertise as a registered dietician, microbiome scientist and chef. This book digests the latest ground-breaking scientific research about the…