Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it? In this groundbreaking new book, Charles Duhigg unravels the sec
Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City.
'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...'
Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat's narrator finds himself adopted by a local scholar and thrown headfirst into the absurd upper middle-class world of Meiji-era Japan. Now a n
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further
'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER
'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL
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They knew they were changing history.
They didn't know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, t
Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. First – a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing about. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket ho
'Alex Cross is a legend' Harlan Coben
'A character for the ages' Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
'Alex Cross. . . only gets better and better' Lisa Scottoline
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it' Lee Child
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In this cosy and spicy paranormal romance from the author of Best Hex Ever, a successful horror writer whose novel is being adapted into a movie clashes with the lead actor on set in a haunted mansion.
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'El-Fassi is the master of cosy spice! Brigitte Kni
You can live a better life. Start here. Start now.
Disruption is everywhere. From artificial intelligence to economic uncertainty to the pandemic's effect on the workplace. We've never seen anything like it in our lifetimes. But how can we use disruption to our advantage?
Enter world-renowned storyteller and entrepreneur, James Patterson, and leadership expert, Patr
Simple Exercises for Building the Life You Want
The official companion to the #1 worldwide bestseller is the next step in your habits toolkit. Guided journal prompts will help you engage with your habits and the forces that impact them. Thought-provoking exercises allow you to implement the Atomic Habits theories and see your life transform. This workbook takes
Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor
'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare
'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy
1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister di
'Karen Russell is one in a million' New York Times
From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America's Dust Bowl.
Visit The Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind
Can we live fully when we are too afraid to be seen? Rhianne is about to find out
'A writer with a voice as fresh as new paint' The Times
Rhianne expresses her inner world through line and colour. This summer, though, back home in the west country, she is seeking distraction in heat and noise. Art school in London has ripped away her confidence and sense of s
Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart.
Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting
A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.
'We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I'm very pleased we have...'
It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reali
If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can&a
'The funniest novel I've read in ages! But also the most romantic! Had me by turns laughing and swooning. This is a comedy of manners for anyone who loves Curtis Sittenfeld, Nora Ephron, Alison Espach, or, well, anyone' Joanna Rackoff, author of My Salinger Year
Rebecca Blume knows two things about Ben Heath: He's a new editor at a rival publishing division, and he has
'Genuinely thought-provoking' THE TIMES
'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD
'Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer' GUARDIAN
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is mad
The memoir from Wrexham's star player, Paul Mullin - as seen in Welcome to Wrexham, a Disney+ documentary series by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
In July 2021, shortly after being named League Two's Player of the Season and Golden Boot, Paul Mullin sent shockwaves through the EFL by taking a downwards move to National League team, Wrexham AFC. Since then, 'Super Pau