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There's a House Inside My Mummy
Giles Andreae
A new baby is coming, and it's waiting in a very special place--in Mommy's tummy house. There the baby grows and kicks, and Mommy eats all kinds of things to feed it. Ideal for young children who are awaiting the arrival of a younger sibling. Illustrations. ...
The Lamb: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Lucy Rose
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping, sinister folktale set in contemporary Cumbria for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Angela Carter, Daisy Johnson, Margaret Atwood and Julia Armfield 'A new generation of literary horror begins with Lucy Rose' GENEVIEVE JAGGER 'Deliciously dark and shockingly bold. One of my favourite debuts in a long time' KIRSTY LOGAN 'Superbly creepy . ...
Unknown Pleasures
Broomfield Publishing
An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel / Cecilia Kang
New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in this behind-the-scenes expose that offers the definitive account of Facebook's fall from grace. Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, for the past five years Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech gi...
The October Man
Ben Aaronovitch
A Rivers of London novella, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything. Enter I...
Cujo
Stephen King
With a stunning new cover look, King's classic tale of survival sees a young mother and her son trapped in a car by a horrifyingly familiar monster. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Exce...
The Housekeeper And The Professor
Yoko Ogawa
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship...
Spy X Family, Vol. 14
Tatsuya Endo
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head!The midterm exams—with stella stars and tonitrus bolt...
Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not)
Jose Rizal
The great novel of the PhilippinesIn more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistanc...
Not That Bad
Roxane Gay
Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault and harassment head-on. In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence and aggress...
Nrsv Catholic Edition
Harper Bibles
The New Revised Standard Version is recognized in scholarly circles as the most accurate translation into English of the original Hebrew and Greek texts and is the most commonly used translation by the global Catholic Church. This special Catholic edition includes: The Catholic Scriptures with inclusive language Imprimatur Anglicized text Special lightweight Bible paper Intr...
Socialism: a Very Short Introduction
Michael Newman
What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical evolution from the French Revolution to the present day. Michael Newman argues that socialism has always been a diverse doctrine, while nevertheless containing a central core of i...
How To Build a Boat
Elaine Feeney
** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 ** Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year 'A gorgeous gift of a novel'Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain 'Heart-rending and delightful'Louise Kennedy, no.1 bestselling author of Trespasses Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees,...
Living With Men
Manon Garcia
Gisèle Pelicot's story outraged the world. The sickening parade of crimes to which she was subjected and her betrayal are dark pages in our history. Feminist philosopher Manon Garcia decided to attend the trial and to analyse its resonance for our future. It became the trial that demonstrated that trials will never suffice to serve justice. If the perpetrators, for the most par...
Screen Damage
Michel Desmurget
All forms of recreational digital consumption - whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs - have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, it's more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 schoo...
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before ; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). ...
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the disco...
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 13
Kanehito Yamada
The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.After being reunited in the past with her old friends, the Party of Heroes, Frieren looks for a way to return to the future. But the Demon King's minions want the knowledge Frieren possesses, and the powerful demon Grausam traps Frieren and Himmel in an illusion so beautiful ...
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The Jasad Crown
Sara Hashem
In the thrilling conclusion to the Egyptian-inspired Scorched Throne duology, a fugitive queen may be the key to restoring her lost kingdom of Jasad, but it could cost her everything and everyone she loves. Held deep in a mountain refuge, Sylvia has been captured by the Urabi, who believe she can return their homeland to its former power. But after years of denying her legacy ...
Sisters In Yellow
Mieko Kawakami
From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set ...
Shake Out The Ghosts
Al Hess
A beautifully funny and deeply moving contemporary queer romance with a magical twist, the perfect next read for fans of TJ Klune and Ashley Poston.A brutal assault nine months ago left eccentric portrait artist Micah with facial scars and PTSD. He's struggled to leave his apartment ever since, and he can't let anyone in. Then his only sanctuary is disrupted by signs of a haunt...
Strange Buildings
Uketsu , Uketsu
Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely... and you'll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't w...
The Gate Of The Feral Gods
Matt Dinniman
*PRE-ORDER THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE EXPLOSIVE DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES* "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure. Surviving in a multilevel dungeon that also happens to be the set of the galaxy's most watched game show has taught Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, t...
The Death Of Us
Abigail Dean
*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper* 'Taut, elegant and heartbreaking' Monica Ali 'A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival' Claire Fuller 'Wonderful... lives up to the hype' Stephen King 'Impossibly accomplished' Chris Whitaker _________________________ Isabel and Edward meet as teenagers. When she tells him she loves him, ...
200 Monas Exaiie Pb
Jan Saenz
Selected for the March 2026 Indie Next List! One tiny pill. The promise of a mind-blowing orgasm. Are you coming? What if there was a pill that gave you the most intense sexual release of your life - would you take it? On the brink of graduation, Arvy Keening is ready for her life to begin. The problem? She just found 200 pills in her recently-deceased mother's closet. When two...
Noah Can't Even (Ne)
Simon James Green
"A riotous, real-feeling debut" - The Guardian Poor Noah Grimes!His father disappeared years ago, his mother's Beyonce tribute act is an unacceptable embarrassment, and his beloved gran is no longer herself. He only has one friend, Harry, and school is... Well, it's pure hell. Why can't Noah be normal, like everyone else at school? Maybe if he struck up a romantic relationship ...
This Inevitable Ruin
Matt Dinniman
*PRE-ORDER THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE EXPLOSIVE DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES* "Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome" #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson *** Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal . . . It all makes for great fun and even greater television. The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across th...
Hooked
Asako Yuzuki
'Tender and thrilling it's Yuzuki at her best' ELLE 'I couldn't stop reading' COSTANZA CASATI 'Unsettling, compelling, richly written' JODIE HARSH 'Dark, tender, unforgettable' JANE CASEY The unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter. Eriko really wouldn't mind being savaged,...
Light And Thread
Han Kang
What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs and diaries. A book of reflection...
Metal Slinger
Rachel Schneider
DISCOVER THE BOOK WITH THE PLOT TWIST THAT BROKE THE INTERNET Rebellion. Loyalty. Friendship. Magic. Love. What would you do to have it all? Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha - a community exiled to live at sea - training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta - the very same people w...
Look What You Made me Do
John Lanchester
'A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber.' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession 'An absolute riot . . . totally compulsive.' Observer 'A modern master of funny, penetrating satire.' GQ 'If Phoebe Waller-Bridge had a score to settle.' Stylist The new novel from the bestselling author of Capital What if the year's most talked about ...
Children Of Strife
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Long ago, towards the end of humanity's first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of irascible genius Avrana Kern. But Kern had rivals, and a team of self-proclaimed innovators took one world from her remit and devoted themselves to reshaping it into a paradise in their own image, using new and unpredictable methods.Later, after...
Abundance
Ezra Klein / Derek Thompson
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A must-read for progressives' BARACK OBAMA 'Downing Street's current hot read' ANDREW MARR 'Forceful, quick-moving, important' FINANCIAL TIMESThe threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective act...
Small Comfort
Ia Genberg
'A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion' - Expressen 'I haven't read anything better this year' - Sydsvenskan 'Her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life' - Svenska Dagbladet 'Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time' - Göteborgs-Posten _______ 'You know, love is...
Thirty Love
Tom Vellner
Things heat up on and off the court for two tennis rivals in this steamy debut gay sports rom-com, perfect for fans of TJ Alexander and Casey McQuiston.American tennis star Leo Chambers is determined to win the US Open by thirty, the age when many players feel retirement looming. He's just a year away from that dreaded birthday, but he can't find his focus—considering he hasn't...
We Are Not Numbers
Ahmed Alnaouq / Pam Bailey
THE NUMBER 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE IRISH BESTSELLER 'Meaningful and impactful ... A vital [read] ... Tell all your friends' BRITISH VOGUE 'A powerful collection' SERVICE95 'This book is a jailbreak and a miracle' NAOMI KLEIN 'Essential ... A project that insists on liberation' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Impossible to put down or forget' RIZ AHMED 'We Are Not Numbers is not just ...
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Humankind
Rutger Bregman
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind mak...
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes. ...
Wise Children
Angela Carter
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business. ...
Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK TIMES 'Sublime' ÉDOUARD LOUIS A SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid. An unna...
Children Of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne dis...
Lessons In Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Stylist, TLS, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, New York Times Notable, India Knight, Hay Festival and many others 'Sparky, ri...
Modern Classics Memoirs Of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian...
Lie With me
Philippe Besson
THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first lo...
You Should Be So Lucky
Cat Sebastian
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season--set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good. The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O'Le...
None Shall Sleep
Ellie Marney
The Silence of the Lambs meets Sadie in this riveting psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers. In 1982, two teenagers--serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell--are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the star...
Spanish History Selection
A Brief History Of Spain
Jeremy Black
A wonderfully concise and very readable history of Spain, perfect for travellers This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme fr...
Espana: a Brief History Of Spain
Giles Tremlett
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and sty...
Isabella Of Castile
Giles Tremlett
1474. Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania-- and Isabella ascended the throne, a female ruler in a male-dominated world. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon not only united their kingdoms, but began a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Tremlett chronicles Isabella's colorful life as she led her country out of the Mid...
The Spanish Inquisition
Henry Kamen
"In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences...
Richelieu And Olivares
J. H. Elliott
Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu...
The Penguin History Of Modern Spain
Nigel Townson
A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...
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