How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the...

How To Lose Weight And Alienate People

Howard Kirk, product of the Swinging Sixties, radical university lecturer, and one half of a very modern marriage, is throwing a party. The night will have all sorts of repercussions: for Henry Beamish, Howard's desperate and easily neglected friend, and for Howard's wife Barbara,...

Howl with laughter at dozens of the very best dog jokes ever collected--and made even funnier by the comic color illustrations that enliven every spread.You'll bark with delight at this collection of more than 100 dog jokes by this bestselling author.and Accompanied by the...

Human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time . . . 'this is gasp a minute stuff by a vintage practitioner' Daily Mail

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future SF from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of...

Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and...

Humans have returned to Pandora-with an armada of starships-but Jake Sully and the Na'vi are ready for them! Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na'vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again...

Husband and wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo ARE BACK in a brand-new thrilling adventure to find an ancient scroll which carries a deadly curse . . .North Africa, 533 A.D.The last Vandal ruler faces the invading Byzantines.An oracle predicts defeat unless a...

'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.'Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis,...

I can't ever choose to be normal even for a single minute of a single day of my entire life. When 12-year-old Darren Dudlow tears down his school with his bare hands it's not just the police who want to talk to him. Enter...

'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough . . . a terrific debut' - Jenny Blackhurst, author of Before I Let You In. The only thing more dangerous than a lie . . . is the truth. When a family man is killed at...

I didn't like to perform. I liked to be loved.'Like Daisy Jones soaked in Britney Spears' Curious'and HOLLY BOURNE'It's a delightfully bubblegum novel of hot summer nostalgia'and LITHUB'A sexy swagger of a debut'and EMMA STRAUBIt is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing...

I didn't say anything.and I didn't return his smiles.and I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting.and I grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes.and I hate those who think fat people are stupid. 'An obese woman and...

I do not know how to love you and be a good king to my people.'Romeria has fled Cirilea as a traitor. Zander has sacrificed his crown to save her life but dreads what her existence means for the future of his realm. They...

I don't need the perfect guy. I don't need candlelight or roses. Honestly, I don't even need a real bed... Ellie Kolstakis is a twenty-one-year-old virgin. She's not religious. She's not waiting for marriage. She's not even holding on for The One. Ellie's just...

I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot.and And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air. . .and And then a body falling . . .'A man retires to a...

I don't want to be remembered forand One Hundred Years of Solitudeand or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available...

I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig.That's a cruel thing to think, I know. He...

I enjoyed it SO much!' MARIAN KEYES'With glorious characters and a dreamy setting, I couldn't have loved this book more'and THE SUN,and ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐and REVIEWBack to the city of dreams . . .Paris has always held a piece of Jess's heart, ever since she spent...

I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of...

'I had the idea, from books and movies, that love was a disease that afflicted only the young and the beautiful, and that this was something I had escaped, on a technicality. I was too thin, too dark. But now I realized I would...

'I had to go back to New York and try to find him. There was a chance he mightn't be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here.' Anna Walsh is...

I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft-petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer.Children who don't die before their parents.A community in shockWhen...

'I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay . . .' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this...

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I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know...

I learnt to love like a man-to love without feelings. And I shall never forget this lesson.' Matsyagandha, Daseyi, Yojanagandha - the queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a rishi, she hardens herself, determined that the next time she...

'I love the Gray Man' Lee Child The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels Court Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a...

I LOVEDand The Girl from Donegal. The storylines are so captivating and the sense of the secret that travels around the world is magical . . . unputdownable'and CATHY KELLYCan you ever forget your first love?Donegal, Ireland, 1939As the world teeters on the brink...

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I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending - it's an absolute triumph.' Sophie Kinsella'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan'and Sunday Express'This spirit-lifting series will warm your heart'and Best'Like a much-needed reunion with friends'and...

I Nearly Died Laughing: The Darkly Comic World of Tony Husband by Tony Husband, Art and Artists Book Paperback - January 1, 2012

I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it."and Started 2007, I Wrote This For You is an acclaimed exploration of hauntingly beautiful words, photography and...

'I raced through it - edgy, tense' HARRIET TYCE, AUTHOR OF BLOOD ORANGE _______________ EVERYONE IS HIDING A SECRET. ONE OF THEM IS MURDER. The book club was her idea, of course. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close....

I seemed to be seeing double. I saw two Edies instead of one - but they weren't the same.'Edie isand fascinatedand by Victorian times, and she's just desperate to be cast in the lead role of her drama club production of Oliver. When she's...

I slide my hand into the crook of your arm, as you open your big brolly wide. We both can stay dry when the spring showers fall, if we dash through the drops, side by side...As spring turns to summer, and autumn turns to...

I started reading this with my ten-year-old son . until he decided the book was so good, he had to carry on without me' - Val, parent reviewer'A superbly funny debut comedy story . A wonderful read, full of fun but, above all, heart...

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared...

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I thought things would change when I found the others. We would stop running. We would fight the Mogadorians. And we would win.But I was wrong. Even though we have come together, we barely escaped from them with our lives. And now we're in...

I used to just write murder mysteries. Now I investigate them…Crime writer turned amateur sleuth, Jen, has taken over the running of the local bookstore in her hometown of Riddleton.But balancing the books at Ravenous Readers is nothing compared to meeting the deadline for...

I wanted more' DAVID GILMANOne lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it.Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud.In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as Igor into Britain - and he's regretted it ever...

'I was gripped immediately' Katerina Diamond, Sunday Times bestseller How much do you know about the couple next door? When Emily and Ben move in next door to Dr Burman and his wife Alisha, they are keen to get to know their new neighbours....

I was in my Granny's kitchen eating extra-special cake,when the walls began to tremble and the roof began to SHAKE.KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!and Ring! Ring! Ring!and Oh MY - a dino's at the door.And now it's taken Granny . SOMEONE STOP THAT DINOSAUR!Chase down the...

'I was taught to take everything I could by any means possible without feeling any sense of remorse, and that coloured the way I saw the world, a world where the strong stomp on everyone below them and doing good is for the naive.'...

I went to see Santa and I got ...When a brother and sister go to see Santa, they compete to see who can be given the most bizarre and brilliant things. As they try to remember all the Christmas gifts, everything escalates until ...It's...

I will remember the story of Einstein for the rest of my life ... This book should be read by everyone.'and VIRGINIA MCKENNA'An unusually powerful book - and a timely one too.'and MICHAEL PALIN'Revealing, perceptive and chilling in turns, the book is unlike any...

I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.'He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern. When Alif comes into possession...