Abigail Owen is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author of 30+ books that range from upper YA (18+) epic romantasy to new adult modern mythic romantasy to super spicy adult paranormal romance. She loves magical worlds with plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs! Other titles include: wife, mother, Star Wars geek, ex-competitive skydiver, AuDHD, spreadsheet lover, Jeopardy! fanatic, organizational guru, true classic movie buff, linguaphile, wishful world traveller, and chocoholic. Abigail currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own swoon-worthy hero, their (mostly) angelic teenagers, and an adorable fur baby. abigailowen.com

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Abigail Ulman was born and raised in Melbourne. She has a BA in Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne/VCA and was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. This is her first book.

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Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham &amp; Banerjee series of crime novels set in 1920s India and the British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year 2025 Hunted. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, the Prix du Polar Européen, and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing. 
 
 
He also co-hosts the popular Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast which takes a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts, tackling everything from bestsellers to pop culture. Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons. 
 
 
Website: abirmukherjee.com Twitter, Threads &amp; Instagram: @radiomukhers Facebook: AuthorAbir

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Abraham L. Newman is a professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is a 2022-2023 Berlin Prize winner and his work has been published in leading outlets like The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Nature, Science, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, and Politico.

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Ada Moncrieff is the author of Murder Most Festive, Murder at the Theatre Royale and Murder at Maybridge Castle. She lives and works in London.

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Adam Aleksic is a linguist and content creator posting educational videos as the “Etymology Nerd” to an audience of over three million. As a linguistics student at Harvard College, he founded and served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He’s discussed online language on NPR, repeatedly contributed to The Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He’s lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania. Adam is based in New York City, where he spends a lot of time scrolling TikTok for “research.”

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Adam Alter is an Associate Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and holds an affiliated appointment within the Psychology Department. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel and Behave and has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Wired, Popular Science and numerous other publications.

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Professor Adam Balen is lead clinician at one of the UK's largest and most successful IVF units at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In recognition of his research on fertility and related conditions, he holds a DSc (the highest academic degree in medicine) from the University of Leeds. Adam is internationally renowned, holding roles with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Federation of Gyneacology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gyneacologists (RCOG). He runs both NHS and private fertility clinics so he understands the issues that arise from both sides and he works closely with fertility patient support organisations across the UK. Adam regularly features in the media on all aspects of reproductive health and lectures widely throughout the world.

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Adam Brookes grew up in the UK and was a journalist with BBC News for many years. As a foreign correspondent he was based in Indonesia, China and the United States. Along the way he reported from many other countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea. He lives in Washington DC.

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Adam Byatt started his cooking career at Claridge’s aged just 16. He first introduced his seasonal, sustainable philosophy with the opening of Thyme in 2004. Having achieved both local and critical success, he returned to Clapham Old Town with Trinity in 2006. Following from the success of Trinity, Adam opened Bistro Union in 2011, and oversaw the hugely successful launch of Upstairs at Trinity, a recipient of a Bib Gourmand Award. Trinity now holds a coveted Michelin Star as well as three AA rosettes and is visited by 50,000 diners a year. Voted in the top ten restaurants in London by both Hardens and Zagat, it has also been included in The Times’ Top 100 Restaurants in the UK, and voted by Opentable diners as one of the top ten restaurants in the UK. 
 
Adam was named Imbibe’s Restaurant Personality of The Year 2017 in recognition of his impact on the London dining scene as well as his commitment to passing on his culinary knowledge to future generations of young chefs. Adam has worked for many charities including DEBRA and Action Against Hunger and travels to numerous culinary schools and colleges to give talks on careers in the hospitality industry. Adam has been appointed Chef Director of Food and Beverage at Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair, where he oversees Charlie’s. Adam is now the Chairman of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and recently announced his sixth restaurant, Brasserie Constance, in Fulham Pier. He has appeared on numerous television shows including regular appearances on Saturday Kitchen and Great British Menu. From 2025 Adam will be chef-in-residence for Delicious magazine, also presenting a podcast.

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Adam Christopher is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith and Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town. He has also written official tie-in novels for the hit CBS television show Elementary and the award-winning Dishonored video game franchise. Co-creator of the twenty-first-century incarnation of Archie Comics superhero The Shield, Adam has also written for the universes of Doctor Who and World of Warcraft, and is a contributor to the internationally bestselling Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anniversary anthology series and the all-ages Star Wars Adventures comic. Adam’s original novels include Made to Kill and The Burning Dark, among many others, and his debut novel Empire State was both a SciFi Now and Financial Times book of the year.

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Adam Foulds's most recent books are In the Wolf’s Mouth, The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’.

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Dr Adam Fox is a highly qualified and respected allergy specialist and consultant paediatric allergist and clinical lead for Allergy at Guy's &amp; St Thomas' Hospitals. The Times recently named him as one of Britain's top 100 children’s doctors. 
 
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Adam Galinsky is currently the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A. from Harvard University.

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at The Wharton School, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, his TED talks have been viewed more than thirty-five million times, and he hosts the hit podcast Re:Thinking. His pioneering research has challenged widespread assumptions about motivation, success, character, and change, and his viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021 and the most-saved article across platforms. He has been recognized as the world’s number-two most influential management thinker and one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40, and he has received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. Grant received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver and magician. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Allison Sweet Grant, a novelist and poet; their two cats (who don’t get along); and their three children (who mostly do).

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Adam and Charlotte met in Zanzibar while working with Voluntary Services Overseas. Upon their return to the UK, Charlotte completed an MA at Oxford Brookes and started her career in publishing. Adam in the meantime became writer-in-residence at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre before co-founding Storytelling Schools, an international organisation dedicated to training teachers in oracy, literacy and creativity. Adam and Charlotte's first book together was the best-selling and award-winning Spaghetti with the Yeti. Since then, Adam and Charlotte have continued to follow their passion for creating engaging books that inspire interaction and creativity in young readers.

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No one has ever seen an electron, quark or neutrino. Yet, no physicist has any doubt as to the existence of these particles. Through mathematics, physicists have opened up the world of the invisible, they have, quite literally, taught us another way to 'see' the world. 
 
The Invisible World illuminates the social and cultural history of particle physics in the twentieth century, describing the invisible objects and forces that have shaped our world and chronicling the lives of the people who first revealed them; physicists whose discoveries changed the courses of nations. From the coincident revelations of x-rays and the cinema to the rise of string theory and exotic financial instruments, The Invisible World is a sweeping history of the twentieth century and the physics that shaped the world we know today. 
 
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the first particle had only just been observed and physicists were still not sure of the existence of atoms or molecules. Since then, physics has unleashed profound changes on our world. From X-rays to transistors to TVs to atomic weapons, we have learned to live with these new realities and have forged our culture and politics around them. 
 
Never before has there been a single record, one narrative history, of what physicists have accomplished in the twentieth century in their quest to understand the fundamental laws and fabric of the universe - and no cultural history that illuminates what that tumultuous century, in all its beauty and terror, had in turn done to them. The Invisible World brilliantly examines the larger role of history and culture in the lives and work of physicists and reveals the stories of how physics left a profound mark on culture and society. The history of the twentieth century, the political shifts between Europe and the United States, the changes in art and popular culture, can all be understood through the lens of physics.

The Invisible World

The Stories of Physics in the Twentieth Century

Alasdair Rae

Britain in 55 Maps

Patricia Kingori

‘Original, fascinating and shocking’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO 
 
You may well know someone who has gone overseas and put their future in the hands of a stranger to pursue their dream of becoming a parent; you may even know someone who has resorted to the services of an exam mill or shadow scholar to get themselves through their finals. But do you know anything about the women who provide these services, let alone where they live? 
 
They call themselves the surrogates. 
 
Patricia Kingori, Professor at Oxford, uncovers a world where the parentally and academically desperate seek help, with few questions asked, from the entrepreneurial surrogates, who sacrifice their bodies and minds at the peak of their most productive years, to give birth to someone else’s baby and write someone else’s assignment. At its heart are Millicent and Rose, the brilliant, unforgettable and resourceful women who embody the pressures and precarity, humour and heartache, corruption and empty choices of these twin trades, on which so many in the Global North depend. 
 
The Surrogates is the first ever in-depth examination of the lives of African women entangled in these booming, multi-billion-dollar industries of biological and intellectual surrogacy. With unprecedented access, drawing on four years of on-the-ground research and interviews with 80 women, it confronts the inequalities and contradictions woven into the fabric of education, technology, globalization, and the pursuit of personal agency. Kingori also holds up a mirror to our own societies, engaging with the thorny issues of medical tourism, AI and offshoring labour, and illuminating the resilience of those largely unheard in the ongoing conversation about empowerment and choice.

The Surrogates

The Hidden Lives and Invisible Labour of the Women for Hire in Kenya

Lucie Green

The Universe In Your Pocket takes the reader on a journey through space and time using ten of the most game-changing and perspective-shifting maps ever created - each representing a major scientific advance and a startling new way of thinking about the universe. 
 
From the celestial maps of the ancients to a cutting-edge visualisation of the shape of the entire universe, we journey through its magnetic fields, along the fluctuating rivers of the solar winds to gravitational oases known as Lagrange points and the surface of Mars, through Black Holes and the enigma of Dark Energy, all the way to the very edges of the cosmos. Each chapter describes the theoretical leaps and feats of exploration that went into the creation of each map, the aspect of the universe it lays bare as well as the mysteries it reveals. 
 
Written by an astrophysicist at the forefront of this adventure, The Universe In Your Pocket is a small book about human curiosity on the grandest scale. Like the maps themselves, it offers a way to grasp the unimaginable and apprehend the unknown.

The Universe In Your Pocket

Ten Cosmic Maps that Explain Everything

Rachel Yehuda

The Resilience Response presents a revolutionary new way to understand trauma – what it is, why it exists and how to respond to it. 
 
The world authority on intergenerational trauma draws on her three decades of pioneering research to unlock trauma's purpose and so transform our ability to heal. She shows that trauma is in fact a survival tool, designed to equip us and our children to cope with stressful events. Using moving case studies and powerful stories of healing, The Resilience Response offers a guide to this new science and shows us that flexibility is the key ingredient not only for our own health, but that of the generations to come. It shows what we can do after a traumatic event to reduce our chances of developing PTSD, and shares groundbreaking discoveries about treatments that can prevent epigenetic stress markers from being passed to the next generation. 
 
Whether we have experienced trauma firsthand or as a result of our environment, we all have the power to nurture our resilience and pass it on, making a safer world for our children and future generations. The Resilience Response teaches us to see our biological responses as a gift and to see our experiences surviving adversity as a way to connect, help others heal, and create a more just world, offering anyone struggling with stress or adversity the opportunity to transform it into radical hope.

The Resilience Response

The New Science of Trauma and How We Heal Across Generations

Jonny Thomson

Ancient wisdom for modern life. This is a liberating and comforting guide to happiness, from the philosopher and founder of @philosophyminis 
 
Drawing on time-tested, ancient Greek wisdom, The Art of Enough offers a new way of thinking about the good life – one that feels lived-in rather than lofty, and sustainable in an age of anxiety and burnout. 
 
Speaking directly to those disillusioned with the culture of relentless hustle, this is a philosophy that is practical as well as profoundly possible. 
 
Thomson’s Epicureanism doesn’t offer us more rainbows to chase or hurdles to jump but gentle, abiding guidance on how to recognise that we already have everything we need to be happy.

The Art of Enough

The Ancient Epicurean Philosophy of Finding – and Keeping – Happiness

Gareth Harney

Vivid and pacy storytelling, blending insightful scholarship with evocative narration – for readers of Tom Holland, Mary Beard and Bettany Hughes. 
 
It was the Greeks who invented money as we know it, striking the first coins in the seventh century BC. Before long this innovative idea of a portable metallic store of wealth spread across the waves of the Mediterranean. But these coins were more than simple units of exchange; they quickly became artistic masterpieces crafted in gold and silver and endure today as some of the most important surviving examples of Ancient Greek art. 
 
More important, they advertised the power and virtues of each polis with patriotic fervour; for the empire of Greece was not a single entity but a rich mosaic of wholly distinct city-states spread across three continents. Yet for all their unique identities and rivalries, these states were bonded by their shared worship of a colourful gallery of gods, their devotion to art, literature and philosophy, and the courage and skill of their citizen-soldiers. 
 
In this thrilling adventure Gareth Harney introduces us to twelve fascinating coins that provide the perfect introduction to Ancient Greece. We witness the birth of democracy on a sacred hilltop overlooking the Acropolis, battle invading Persians in an existential war on land and at sea, take part in the bitter conflict between Athens and Sparta, and march alongside Alexander the Great as he carries Greek culture all the way to India.

Nomos

A History of Ancient Greece in Twelve Coins

Mona Chalabi

Ten Lives

How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

Michael Taylor

Illuminati

The History of a Conspiracy Theory

Ben Dark

Green Kingdom

The Family History of Plants

Timothy Garton Ash

It has never been more important to understand the extraordinarily complex and tightly meshed history, geography, culture and politics of the European continent. 
 
As confidence in the post-war world order led by America and policed by NATO is shaken, as the US Trump administration cosies up to right-wing disruptors within Europe and the Russian dictator on its Eastern flank, the value of our nearest and closest neighbours is greater than ever. 
 
Garton Ash draws on a lifetime of reporting, analysis and consulting on Europe in this distilled and accessible, narrative driven and conversational introduction to what he calls the world’s oldest and newest continent. The methodology of Europe in 7 ½ Chapters will be that of a CT-scan, dividing this vast subject into thin thematic slices which elucidate the whole. And he will begin by looking at Europe from the outside, acknowledging the legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism, as he assesses the continent’s past achievements and future prospects. 
 
This will be an indispensable travel companion and primer – thoughtful, surprising, and highly entertaining.

Europe in 7 1/2 Chapters

The Shortest Introduction to the World's Oldest and Newest Continent

Gideon Rachman

A long period of peace and stable relations between the world’s most powerful nations is coming to an end. 
 
Major wars have broken out in Europe and the Middle East, tensions are rising in East Asia, world leaders have spoken publicly about the possibility of a third world war, and intelligence agencies have never seen the world in a more dangerous and precarious state. 
 
Making use of Rachman’s unique, unparalleled access to leaders in political and intelligence spheres around the globe and full of extremely well-informed and insightful analysis, WAR IS INTERESTED IN YOU explores how we got to this point in global affairs and, crucially, what happens next – in this case, the increasing risk of global conflict. 
 
As Leon Trotsky once put it – ‘You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.’

War Is Interested In You

The Breakdown of International Order and the Threat of World War Three

Oliver Burkeman

Aliveness

Getting Things Done in an Age of Bewilderment

Jerry White

How the turmoil of revolution and war created the London we know today – the world’s first truly global city. 
 
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars changed London beyond recognition, turning it into the capital of the world – the focal point of international finance and trade. Victory over France in 1815 ushered in the ‘British Century’: the next hundred years would be defined by Britain’s capitalist innovation and financial might, naval supremacy and imperial ambition. 
 
In this brilliant portrait of these pivotal years, Jerry White looks at how revolution and war on the Continent transformed the capital. While the manufacture of war materials brought wealth for some, high food prices led to bread riots. The war divided public opinion, with ultra-patriots clamouring for the defeat of ‘Bony’, while others sought to emulate the democratic reforms pioneered across the Channel. Crucially, the chaos and uncertainty on the Continent led to a mass flight of foreign bankers and merchants to London, which would help turn London into the world’s leading financial centre -- contemporaries called it ‘The Modern Rome’. 
 
Yet Birth of a Global City takes in the wider world too. Who was feeding London, in the British Isles and across the empire? How instrumental was Britain’s financial might in victory over France? What impact did the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 have on London, Britain and its empire? And how dangerous were the political ideas coming from the Continent? It was this turbulent period of war and political turmoil that created London as we know it today.

Birth of a Global City

London in a Revolutionary World, 1789-1815

William A. Pettigrew

Britain's Slave Traders: A Forgotten History combines forensic new research with vivid and compelling narrative to provide an entirely new history of Britain that for the first time clarifies the true significance of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans to Britain’s development as a modern nation. 
 
Between the birth of the trade in the 16th century and its abolition in 1807, Britain derived vast wealth from the traffic in Africans from West Africa to the Americas - but until now the people who conceived, designed and engineered that trade have been largely unknown to us. As a result, it has been impossible to trace where the wealth derived from slavery went, what purposes it was put to, who it empowered and what it enabled. This erasure was a conscious decision on the part of the abolitionists, who realised that success in their mission relied on it. But by bringing these people and institutions fully into the light for the first time, this book fills a hugely significant gap in Britain's history, one that has profoundly distorted our understanding of how Britain became such a prosperous and dominant global force and, perhaps surprisingly, how it came to enjoy a reputation as a progressive, philanthropic, freedom-loving nation. 
 
We discover that Britain’s slave traders came from a wide range of social backgrounds: plumbers as well as politicians, instrument makers as well as monarchs, women and immigrants as well as aristocrats and merchants. From the birth of the Royal Navy, the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the emergence of two-party politics to the winning of wars, the founding of modern industry and the building of ports, canals and thriving cities, their profits can now be identified as having had a profound influence on Britain’s economy, politics, science and arts during a crucially formative period, setting it on its path to becoming the nation we know today.

Britain's Slave Traders

A Forgotten History

Camilla Cavendish

Award-winning journalist Camilla Cavendish embarks on a compassionate yet frank investigation into why we’re having fewer children, how it's changing the world and what we should do about it 
 
Camilla Cavendish travels across cultures and continents to investigate one of the most intimate decisions we all make – whether or not to have children. In Britain, one in five couples have no children, and almost half of all families have only one. The populations of China, Japan, Russia and Italy are shrinking rapidly. Poland and South Korea could all but vanish from the map. Pro-natalists wail that feminism has killed the family. Governments throw money at childcare subsidies. Would-be grandparents wring their hands at the apparent selfishness of the young. But the conversation is in the wrong place. 
 
As birth rates plummet, Cavendish offers a startling blend of data and stories to uncover what is really driving the baby gap. Meeting people from a diverse range of ethnicities and experiences, she reveals a tapestry of motivations – from a dating recession to a loss of faith in the future; from the pressures of modern parenting to infertility struggles; from the atomisation of society to a deeply human instinct to mirror each other. 
 
Interviewing voices from across the new political divide, Cavendish warns against weaponising babies. She encounters women going it alone and men who’ve missed out, finds communities quietly bucking the trend and speaks to scientists on the verge of extending the biological clock. 
 
By examining the profound implications of a world where fewer children are born, Generation Maybe argues for a future in which we respect the happily childfree, while genuinely empowering those who long for children. Incisive and humane, this is essential reading for anyone who cares about the world we may – or may not – choose to make for the next generation.

Generation Maybe

Why We're Having Fewer Children, and What It Means for Us All

Anthony Scaramucci

An explosive insider story of the biggest mistakes in history and how to put them right — from the man who saw America’s wrong moves up close, White House insider turned host of the hit podcast, The Rest is Politics: US 
 
We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come 
from, and how do we get out? 
 
Anthony Scaramucci’s electrifying answer – rooted in history, business, and first-hand experience – reveals the true origins of America’s current crisis, charting how both political parties made a series of catastrophic decisions that dismantled a postwar period of unprecedented stability and prosperity. Each decision deepened inequality, corroded trust, and fueled the anger that empowered Donald Trump’s rise and his assault on democracy. 
 
The story Scaramucci tells is ‘money-point-of-view history’: it gallops from Wall St to Main St, from the boardroom to the Situation Room. A product of the working class who rose to the heights of finance and power, he has witnessed first-hand how money and ambition have always lived in tension with ideals. And he brings a rare skin-in-the game perspective to showing how both parties failed the people they once represented. 
 
It will take courage and tough action but in All The Wrong Moves he sets up the challenge to cut through partisanship and embrace some right ones. 
 
All the Wrong Moves is not about right and left. It’s about right and wrong. It is a portrait of America which has the clarity of an X-ray and is a blistering display of storytelling and analysis.

All the Wrong Moves

How Three Catastrophic Decisions and Years of Sh*tshow Politics Led to Trump – and How We Find a Way Out

Kevin Fong

No plan survives the first five minutes of contact with reality – so how should we prepare for what follows? 
 
Kevin Fong has spent his working life in high-risk, high-performance teams – flying as doctor with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, working with NASA’s human space flight directorate, and serving as National Clinical Adviser to NHS England during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as being part of the UK’s frontline response to several major incidents and terror attacks. 
 
Drawing on these experiences, Minute Six provides key insights into how teams and organisations succeed against the odds and why they sometimes fail. Fong explains why decisions in the face of irreducible uncertainty are the ultimate team sport, and the success of teamwork depends in turn on the crucial partnership between humans and technology. But too often we misunderstand the place of the human in the loop and why – when it comes to managing the unknown – the edge of chaos is a good place for us to be. 
 
Minute Six is a timely and essential survival guide for an increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain world.

Minute Six

How High-Performance Teams Navigate the Unknown

Ian Mortimer

This book tells the story of Mearsdon, the house where Ian Mortimer lives in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor. We very rarely have a continuous account of a particular place over a long stretch of history, but Mortimer has a documentary record of all the owners who lived there since the 1260s – although the origins of the building probably date back to the eleventh century. 
 
Blending the broadest national history and the most intimate local events with a description of changing daily life from the Norman Conquest to the present day, Mortimer acquaints us with the people who passed through the house – from its first known owner, John the Palmer, to the folklore collector Charlie Laycock, who turned the house into a museum in the early twentieth century, to Mortimer’s family living there today. And along the way he shows how national events – from the Black Death to the Prayerbook Rebellion, from the Civil Wars to the two world wars – affected a rural community in deepest Devon over a time span of 900 years. 
 
The result is fascinating social history like no other. Bringing to it the brilliant imagination and storytelling gifts that made his Time Traveller’s Guides such a huge success, Mortimer introduces us to lords and merchants, ale brewers and peasants, clergymen and murderers, to create a continuously evolving story. Seeing through its windows, we not only glimpse at the people who lived in the house over the ages; we also see through their eyes as they look out at the changing world around them.

Through the Windows of an Ordinary House: A History of England

Rachel Morley

A transporting and gloriously entertaining journey through the hidden lives of England’s rural parish churches 
 
The poet John Betjeman coined the phrase ‘church crawling’ to describe his days out visiting churches. In the spirit of Betjeman, Morley’s book captures the magical experience of poking around a deserted rural church only to see it transform – through her expert eyes – into a portal to the past, one that brings England’s people and history to life in the most colourful, moving and unexpected ways. 
 
Through their wall-paintings and monuments, their graffiti and plaques, carved beams and crypts, their jumble of furniture and oddities, Morley shows these buildings to be the living expression of centuries of communal history and folk culture, time capsules of wonder and connection. The stories they contain are both boisterous and tender, raucous and sublime, transporting us to the ancient and medieval past, to revolutions and wars, to lives both glorious and humble. 
 
Often the oldest and most significant building in a settlement, churches are where for centuries births have been celebrated, relationships consecrated and deaths memorialised, where the great and enduring mysteries have been contemplated, and where the ghosts of countless, unnamed, normal lives are to be found. As Rachel Morley shows, the concentration of human experience within their walls is so rich and so layered, that they offer as close an encounter with the past as it is possible to get.

Church Crawling

The Secret Lives and Hidden Stories of England’s Churches

Lani Watson

Questions are powerful. They direct our attention and reveal our concerns, shape our conversations and our relationships. 
 
But throughout our lives we are judged and rewarded for the answers we give, not the questions we ask. As a result, this essential human skill is overlooked and underdeveloped. Q reveals how we can understand the power of questions, share it more evenly, and learn to use it personally, socially and professionally. 
 
Lani Watson takes us on a journey from the death of Socrates to the dawn of AI, drawing on research in psychology, philosophy and neuroscience to show how questions play a vital role in each of our individual lives and in our shared human story. We see how infants begin questioning before they can speak, how questions activate the brain’s reward systems and prime us to learn, and how we are the only species that truly asks questions of one another. 
 
At school, though, we learn to stop asking questions. The cost can be seen all around us, as the ability to ask questions determines our experiences and our interactions everywhere from courtrooms to offices, therapy rooms to hospital wards, and in our closest relationships. 
 
In a world rushing towards answers, Q shows us how deeply questions matter, how we can develop a questioning mindset and what we stand to gain. It is revelatory and life-enhancing – an invitation to recognise our most underappreciated human capacity and harness its hidden power.

The Hidden Power of Questions in a World that Wants Answers

Ed Douglas

Upland

The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain’s Mountains

Tim Whitmarsh

How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism, grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Rome’s Age of Revolution corrects the triumphalist narrative that the Christian message was so persuasive, and indeed superior, that people converted in huge numbers, abandoning their pagan beliefs, thereby turning a small persecuted sect into the state religion of the Roman Empire. 
 
Tim Whitmarsh shows that Christianity would never have succeeded if it had not taken advantage of the infrastructure and culture of the Roman Empire; in turn the new religion was indelibly shaped and transformed by Roman beliefs and ideas, especially those circulating in the Greek-speaking, or Hellenistic, eastern parts of the empire. This radical transformation, Tim argues, can only be described as a revolution. The consequences are with us to this day.

Rome's Age of Revolution

Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity

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Tim and Biscuit, two unlikely friends, always seem to get themselves into difficult situations. From their first meeting in Cliffhanger, where bookish Tim is forced to endure an activities camp, to Buried Alive, where a quiet camping holiday turns out to be full of surprises, there is never a dull moment with these two around.Jaqueline Wilson’s hilarious duo of books catalogues their escapades, triumphs and failures, with a good helping of snacks along the way!

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