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'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them. Where should you move first in Connect 4? Which property is…
'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE 'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR 'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI The instant Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings’ Cosmopolitan…
'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR'An engulfing novel' AVNI DOSHI'The book that everyone is reading'NEW YORK TIMESTold in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid…
'ZADIE SMITH-ESQUE IN ITS KALEIDOSCOPE OF LONDON' NIAMH CAMPBELL'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONESSummer in London stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers,…
'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY, AUTHOR OF THE FLATSHARE 'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening’ CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE, AUTHOR OF THE RACHEL INCIDENT Bette loves Mei, but…
An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best of Young British Novelists ‘Oozes with erotic tension from the start’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ‘Sublime… I loved this book’ Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea ‘Moody, generous…
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window:…
Our twenties can be challenging. Today, so many twentysomethings are struggling, especially with anxiety and depression, and yet we're not sure what to think or do about it. In The Twentysomething Treatment psychologist Dr.Meg Jay explores why and unveils…
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein?'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity'…
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date―a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering…
A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home'An astonishing debut ... Rhythmic, atmospheric and enduring' CHARLIE CARROLL'A book where language feels like hands reaching into the soil, where landscapes feel alive, where…
'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'Delicious' i-D Magazine 'Luscious … I devoured this' IMOGEN CRIMP The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial…
‘ An easy, honest, delicious win’ Yotam Ottolenghi ‘Clever, delicious, heartfelt and wholesome’ Jamie Oliver Award-winning and bestselling cook Anna Jones gives her golden rules for easy wins in the kitchen with super-simple recipes that are bursting…
'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, bestselling author of Pandora'A well-researched and thoroughly convincing page-turner' LAURA SHEPPERSON, bestselling author of The HeroinesSOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE…
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen 'Incredibly funny and very moving’ BELLA MACKIE 'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love’ NINA STIBBE ‘Even…
‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes…
The hotly anticipated book from ‘one of the all-time pop-culture greats’ (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. ‘Intense and compelling’ SUNDAY TIMES 'A gripping…
SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES - from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW…
Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them? Around the World in 80 Games is about the mathematics of chance, game theory, gamification, gaming strategies and computer games.…
'Trippy, incisive and riotously funny' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'A wonder ... Precision, humour, heart, this is a stunner' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars'An original mind brimming…
30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR The lyrical, timeless tale of the Lisbon sisters, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. The five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and, now,…
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an…
'A moving collection' GRAZIA 'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE 'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM 'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives with brevity, depth and wry humour.' THE FACE…
An Observer Best Debut of the Year'Oozes with erotic tension from the start' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life'Sublime ... I loved this book' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea'Tense and taut and exhilarating' Monica Heisey, author of…
'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here 'Quietly profound ... belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild' New York Times Riverman: An American…
'A page-turner ... nothing less than magical' Observer 'An extraordinary slice of suburban noir' Daily Mail From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions…
'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation…
The all-new adventure from the international bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on…
The new novel from the Women's Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future - as the richest people on the planet have…
One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and…