Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move....

***A TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021***"200 pages of serious entertainment." -The TimesThe Life of the Mindand opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the “thick, curdled knots of string coming out of her body....

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.In the late nineteenth century, when...

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***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, spilling her trade secrets for minimizing effort while maximizing...

***Elizabeth Day's new noveland Magpieand is publishing this September and is available to pre-order now.***From theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand How to Fail Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure'and Stylist A beautiful timely and humane book' Alain de Botton Most...

***NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER***Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Why do people cheat? Can an affair ever help a marriage?Infidelity is the ultimate betrayal. But does it have to be?...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times andamp; Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink itOver the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made...

***OUT NOW - the first book by Matt Morsia, the UK's #1 Fitness Vlogger***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Powerfully dispels myths with science and humourand - every gym bag deserves a copy' ROSS EDGELY, #1 bestselling author of The Art of Resilience and The...

***SHORTLISTED FOR FT andamp; MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020***FTand Best books of 2020: Business'In a world on fire, status quo is not a great option. Henderson rightfully argues for the refoundation of capitalism and offers thought-provoking ideas on what needs to be...

***THE BRAND NEW, MUST-HAVE HORMONE BALANCE GUIDE FROM PIPPA CAMPBELL***'PIPPA CAMPBELL REALLY HELPED ME OUT OF MY PERIMENOPAUSE RUT!' ZOE BALLAre you looking for expert advice on how to balance your mood, sleep better, control your weight and lift brain fog?and Look no further...

***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILMand OPPENHEIMER***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying'and Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project...

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** "Jessie (a.k.a. the Glucose Goddess) takes you on a fun and informative journey to understand how food affects your sugar spikes and your health. This practical guide is full of wonderful tips and hacks on how and what to...

***THE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER***The explosive new thriller featuring MI6 operative Luke Carlton on his most terrifying mission yet.Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard in search of shelter. They see a cabin ahead....

***The International Bestseller***Do you procrastinate instead of doing the things you really need to?Are you inclined to miss a workout session because curling up on the sofa is more appealing?Do you let your fears stand in the way of your dreams?This is what can...

***THE MUST-READ AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH BOXERS EVER - LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY, INSPIRATIONAL AND BRUTALLY HONEST***'It's a fascinating read' - Chris Moyles'I cannot recommend it enough - I absolutely tore through this.and Fight For Your Lifeand is not a normal Sports autobiography...

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***THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER!***AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4'S 'LOSE A STONE IN 21 DAYS',and A NEW PROGRAMME FOR ACCELERATED WEIGHT LOSS COMBINING KETO WITH THE HUGELY POPULAR FAST 800A keto diet - where you flip your metabolic switch, going from burning sugar to burning...

***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST andamp; NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.'and Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.'and The TimesEmerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***It's time to turn your dreams into reality. You just need a mentor to guide the way.Holly Tucker MBE - co-founder of notonthehighstreet, and creator of Holly andamp; Co - is on a mission to change business forever. Having inspired over...

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Twelve months' worth of smart self-help from someone you'd want on your team in a crisis ... genuinely useful, charming, comforting'and -and Guardian'Compelling, warm and authoritative' - Viv Groskop, bestselling author ofand Lift As You Climb'A compassionate book filled with useful tips to help...

**A Book of the Year inand The Timesand andand Theand Sunday Timesand **Trees are essential, for nature and for us. Yet we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that we are fast approaching a tipping point.But there is still hope. If...

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**A spellbinding historical novel**The Sunday Times Bestseller O'Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory status' - Reader's Digest A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.'From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent's reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal.Her royal blood makes her...

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**AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST**Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.'An electrifying new history of the universe'HANNAH FRY, author ofand...

**AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4**130 brand-new recipes to cook up at home, any day of the week...Following their bestsellingand Fast 800 Recipe Book, Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison return with a fabulous new cookbook, featuring super-simple recipes to enable you to eat well...

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*HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2021 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD**and She's a murderer.and Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed?So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial.and Coming back to the remote coastal village...

**Instantand Sunday Timesand bestseller**Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend.You might think success at the highest level insulates you from self-doubt.But nothing could be further from the...

**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing**'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR'Profoundly moving' MARK TULLY_______________________The Vanishingand reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities...

**NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER**THE BOOK TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING IN 2025 The most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump'and New StatesmanIn the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a...

**Now a major film, starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilson, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs**A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONAand SUNDAY TIMESand NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Astonishing ... Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan'and Daily Mail'A rollicking read'and Max Hastings,and...

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**Now adapted as the Netflix documentary - Big Vape tells the story of how a cigarette start-up became a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke**'Big Vapeand is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a...

**Picked by Bill Gates for his summer reading list**Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back?Chris Anderson, the head of TED, believes that...

**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THEand SUNDAY TIMES**'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness'and LITERARY REVIEW'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst...

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021****SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE****FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD**D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial - and we are still unsure what the verdict should be.Delving into the memoirs...

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss'Why do we love books so much?'For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books...

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**THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH**and THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN.and 'The book is compellingand as it maps out the building of the Valley, the challenges its early tech pioneers faced,...