A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy and is known as @agatharoza on Wattpad.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

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A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson &amp; Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity: water. 
 
He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. 
 
Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

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Aaron Edwards is a senior lecturer in defence and international affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, specialising in terrorism and counter-insurgency. He is the author and editor of several books, including Defending the Realm: The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars Since 1945, and has lectured all over the world on aspects of national and international security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Neil Fiore

Learn how to overcome procrastination and enjoy guilt-free play! One of the most effective programs to combat procrastination, THE NOW HABIT has sold over 100,000 copies, has been translated into 11 languages, and is now revised and updated. 
 
Featuring a new preface and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, The Now Habit offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore's techniques will help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.

The Now Habit

A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

Annie Duke

'Brilliant and entertaining' Daniel Kahneman | 'Quit what you are doing right now and read this' Richard Thaler | 'Engrossing, important, and grounded in science' Katy Milkman 
 
What if the secret to success is not just hard work, but knowing when to change track? 
 
In this game-changing guide, decision-making expert Annie Duke shows why quitting what holds you back is essential for success. Drawing on new research and fascinating examples, this book offers practical strategies and explains: 
 
Why it's so hard to walk away 
How to identify when it's best to persevere or pivot 
How quitting on time often feels like quitting too early 
 
Packed with insights from athletes, start-up founders and entertainers, Quit breaks down the mental model that keeps us from walking away and provides a toolkit for quitting anything - a career, a marriage, an investment - at the perfect time.

Quit

The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Simone Stolzoff

'Superb.' Oliver Burkeman 
 
'An incredibly propulsive read. It will absolutely challenge you, in the best way possible, to change the way you think about work.' Anne Helen Petersen 
 
'A sharp analysis of modern work culture.' Vauhini Vara 
 
 
The Good Enough Job reminds us that the biggest goal of all is to live a life we are happy with, and in which work is but one of the multitude of facets that make us who we are. An antidote to the toxic #hustle movement convincing us all we need to find fulfilment in the office, it denounces the dangers of burnout linked to those of us who cannot answer the question: beyond work, what's left? 
 
Conversations of burnout have bubbled to the top of the cultural zeitgeist as the line between work and not-work continues to blur. Burnout and workaholism are symptoms of a deeper root cause: a lack of separation between who we are and what we do. This book is not a credo against looking to work for fulfilment, nor is it in favour of treating work as a necessary evil. It is a guide to developing a healthier relationship to work through the stories of people who have successfully done so. These are stories that invite us to re-evaluate what makes us happy, and how we can work to live, rather than the other way round.

The Good Enough Job

What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First

Claer Barrett

**The Instant Top Ten Bestseller** 
 
MoneyWeek's Top Money Books 2024 
 
'Utterly indispensable.' Lorraine Kelly 
 
'A must-read.' Tim Harford 
 
TV and radio money-agony-aunt Claer Barrett is the voice of reason in the cost of living crisis, teaching us what we need to know about money, in an accessible way that anyone can understand. 
 
By unpicking our emotional relationship with money, she gets to the heart of how our financial habits are formed - and reveals seven powerful yet easy ways to transform how we manage our money for good. 
 
If you struggle to understand where you're going wrong with your money but don't know where to start, What They Don't Teach You About Money has all the answers you've been searching for. There's no shaming finger-wagging or headache-inducing jargon, just hundreds of practical tips showing how to get money working for you. 
 
The financial world can be an intimidating place, but Claer will banish any lack of confidence, demystifying money matters to help you regain control of your finances - and she'll even make you laugh along the way. 
 
You will learn: 
- why your 'financial personality' is key to unlocking your money habits 
- the secrets of successful budgeting (takeaway coffee is still allowed) 
- how to deal with your debts, and understand student finance 
- how to harness the power of digital banking to make your life easier, and save more 
- how to plan for your financial future and set yourself achievable goals along the way 
- how to talk about money and make uncomfortable conversations a thing of the past 
- easy lessons to help everyone understand tax, pensions and investing (yes, really!) 
- what you need to know before you buy your first property 
- how to grow your income and get that pay rise 
 
Claer expertly debunks the myths that keep us stuck in financial paralysis. 
 
It's time to regain control of your bank balance and get your money working for you! 
 
The Instant Top Ten Bestseller, Sunday Times, April 2023

What They Don't Teach You About Money

Seven Habits to Unlock Financial Independence

Berthold Gunster

'Transformative... Flip Thinking beautifully illustrates how a person who can turn a negative into a positive can never be defeated' - Greg McKeown, podcaster and bestselling author of Essentialism and Effortless 
 
 
Imagine this: you've got a great idea, and all you hear are the yes-buts. "Yes, but that's been tried before, and it didn't work." "Yes, but shouldn't we just let it sit for a while?" "Yes, but what if it doesn't work..." 
 
Stop saying "yes, but..." to life, and to start saying "yes, and..." 
 
This international bestseller introduces the power of flip thinking to transform stuck-in-the-mud, pessimistic 'yes, but' thinking into an inventive, curious 'yes, and' mindset. 
 
Berthold Gunster presents his fifteen flip thinking strategies that will transform your thinking away from limitations and threats and towards possibilities and opportunities. From disrupting (turn all the rules upside down), to flaunting (play up what you want to hide), and importing (get the enemy on board) to amplifying (focus on what works, and do more of that) Gunster's strategies and stories will have you approaching even the most challenging problems, at work, home and at play, in a whole new way.

Flip Thinking

The Life-Changing Art of Turning Problems into Opportunities

Jeremy Utley

Perry Klebahn

'A game-changer' | 'A must-read' | 'Simple yet powerful' 
 
The single best way to have a great idea is to produce lots of ideas. 
 
The number of new ideas your organization can produce is a metric for its ability to generate novel solutions to any given problem. Your ideaflow is the most crucial business metric that you've never considered. Every business problem is, finally, an idea problem. How well you can solve those problems is how well you and your business can perform, navigate uncertainty, and develop innovations. 
 
Drawing from their decades of teaching Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives at the world famous Stanford d.school and leading innovative companies like Patagonia, Klebahn and Utley offer a battle-tested framework to exponentially boost your ideaflow. You'll learn how to: 
-- Establish a brief daily creativity practice 
-- Develop thousands of great ideas on demand 
-- Run cheap, fast tests to determine which ideas will work 
-- Persuade your team and organization on the importance of centering ideaflow 
 
Are you ready to supercharge your organization's creativity?

Ideaflow

Why Creative Businesses Win

Justin Talbot-Zorn

Leigh Marz

What if the most serious personal and global challenges won't be solved with more thinking or talking? 
 
The world is louder than ever. It's not just the noise in our ears, but also the noise on our screens and in our heads. 'Silence is golden,' the adage goes. But how do we find it in times like these? 
 
Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey exploring why silence is essential for physical health, mental clarity, professional fulfilment, nourishing relationships, ecological sustainability, and vibrant community. Drawing on lessons from neuroscience, philosophy, business, politics, activism, and the arts, Golden teaches us how to go beyond the ordinary rules and offers tools of mindfulness to help individuals, organisations and whole societies dial down the noise and reclaim pristine quiet. 
 
Quietly profound and constantly surprising, Golden is a field guide to finding silence.

Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise

Jean Oelwang

Some of the most successful people in the world all have a secret power: their partnerships. 
 
Our individualistic society has created a cult of self-interest. The result: fear, division, and domination, which has crushed our ability to relate meaningfully to each other and diminished our ability to innovate and collaborate. 
 
Jean Oelwang, founding CEO and Trustee of Virgin Unite, has interviewed over 60 business and life partnerships - including Desmond and Leah Tutu, and Ben and Jerry - revealing how to nurture relationships with depth and purpose. These kinds of deep connections have a profound ripple effect on everything we do, supporting us to achieve more, withstand anything and amplify impact. Enduring partnerships are the foundation of a meaningful life as well as the backbone of any successful organisation. In this book she unpicks the values that connect great partners, offering practical tools for staying in sync, disagreeing respectfully and a blueprint for expanding small partnerships into large-scale collaborations. 
 
Packed with wisdom to nourish the relationships that give us strength and meaning, Partnering is a call-to-action for individuals resisting individualism to lead with purpose and impact.

Partnering

Forge the Deep Connections that Make Great Things Happen

Alice Boyes

Have you ever felt that you're too much of a perfectionist to be productive? Does the prepackaged advice from experts just not work? Then this is the book for you. 
 
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all productivity plan. The tricks that work for your colleague may not work as well for you. Or perhaps they don't work at all. The fact is that everyone has their own productivity quirks to make them work efficiently and effectively. They just don't know how to crack them. 
 
In this innovative guide, Dr Alice Boyes will help you diagnose your unique productivity profile and give you the framework to formulate a powerhouse personalised system. Drawing on groundbreaking research, countless examples, and quizzes in every chapter, this book will help you be the most growth-oriented, most effective and efficient, and most creative and visionary version of yourself.

Stress-Free Productivity

A Personalised Toolkit to Become Your Most Efficient, Creative Self

Tessa West

Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor Tessa West shows you how. 
 
Have you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? They don't hesitate to throw peers under the bus, but their boss is oblivious to their bad behaviour. What about a constantly interrupting colleague? Or an over-bearing manager? While these jerks stress us out in small ways throughout the day, they aren't technically breaking any rules, so we're expected just to put up with them. 
 
...Until now. Tessa West has already helped thousands of people resolve their most pressing workplace issues. And here she draws on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, the Credit-Stealer, the Neglecter, and the Micromanager, giving advice to anyone who's ever hidden in the bathroom to cry at work. She digs deep into the inner workings of each bad apple, exploring their motivations and insecurities, and offers clever strategies for stopping each type of jerk in their tracks. 
 
Know a Jerk at Work? This proactive approach reveals the single, most effective way to achieve emotional wellbeing at work.

Jerks at Work

Toxic Coworkers and What to do About Them

Justin Kim

What is the secret sauce behind the explosion of successful young businesses in Asia Pacific? Often leapfrogging over their western counterparts entirely, there is a special brand of work ethic, grit and dynamism that Asian businesses are demonstrating, with a class of undeniable new talent at their helms. 
 
From telcos, healthcare, e-commerce to fintech businesses, the business people lauded in the region aren’t like our Western business legends. Homegrown talent are doing things their way. With Crazy Smart Asians, Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni and founder of the first META-backed venture in Asia, Justin Kim, showcases the Asian talent reinventing the rules of business in the region and making a lot of money in the process. 
 
Because the region has evolved, business leaders are embracing a strong desire to positively impact the societies around them. If the old guard was focused on servicing huge market demand and honing a brutal work ethic, modern entrepreneurs are flipping the script. They don’t work harder, they work smarter. 
Modern entrepreneurship in Asia is based around strategic analysis of competition (and copying them but in a better way!), using momentum and innovation for the wider good – both for internal and external stakeholders, servant leadership – often with leaders that exemplify what they want in others, and a real embracing of regional idiosyncrasies but brought to the global stage. All things that would realistically turbocharge any business, regardless of where they’re based! 
 
We’ve all heard the big success stories of the region, with the likes of TATA, Alibaba and Samsung, often praised, but rarely really understood. Crazy Smart Asians will showcase the modern entrepreneurial boom taking place in Asia Pacific, but with names like Grab, GoTo and Coupang ushering in a new era of innovation and with exclusive access to these businesses’ founders and leaders.

Crazy Smart Asians

Bing Gordon

Chloe Gordon

Video games are the biggest entertainment industry in the world—and they have a lot to teach us. How can we recreate the satisfaction we feel playing games in day-to-day life? How can we harness that feeling to make better products? 
 
These are the questions Bing Gordon has been trying to answer over his 40 year career in tech. Affectionately known as the godfather of the video game world, his influence and canonized “Gamification Checklist” have shaped the companies we engage with every day: Amazon Prime, Zynga, Spotify, Audible, Twitch, Duolingo, and Cameo, to name a few. 
 
Gamification, as explained by Bing, is motivation with rules and scoring mechanisms. It’s a framework for amplifying productivity and building social capital, leading to improved relationships, self-satisfaction, and professional achievement. 
The Gamification of Everything draws on Bing’s Gamification Checklist and decades of fascinating in-the-room, behind-the-scenes stories to tell readers how to make products that people love—including a few life lessons along the way. Each chapter delves into one of the eight concepts on the Checklist, such as Wow Moments, Invest and Express, and Retention Hacking, to explore why we come back to certain products and games again and again. 
 
With candid, first-person narration and Bing’s signature wit, The Gamification of Everything helps readers level up their products and services by understanding that what makes video games so fun, so easy to emotionally invest in, is the gold standard we should strive to replicate everywhere.

Everybody Wins

The Eight Commandments of Building Products That People Love

Ben Hunt-Davis

Harriet Beveridge

Discover the simple principles that took a team from mediocrity to Olympic gold victory, and which you can use every day in work, life and play. 
 
How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how. 
 
Inspired by his own journey to Olympic gold as part of the British Men’s Eight Rowing team, Ben-Hunt Davis reveals the principles that took them from losing race after race to history-making peak performance. He recounts the Eight’s journey to gold, from the intense preparation for the Henley Royal Regatta, the disappointments in the journey, to the high-stakes races leading to the Olympic Final, and together with executive coach Harriet Beveridge, distills the lessons from each gripping story into easy-to-implement strategies to apply to your every day. 
 
From learning how to set layered goals and master motivation, to building resilient teams and cultivating a winning mindset, this 15th anniversary edition of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? includes new examples of people from all walks of life applying this Olympic strategy to their every day to make their own boat go faster. 
 
Whether you’re a business leader wanting better results, an individual with a dream, or a coach guiding your team to unlocking their potential, this book is jammed-pack with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own gold medals.

Will It Make the Boat Go Faster

Olympic-winning Strategies for Everyday Success

Amy Morin

Improve your workplace performance with 50 practical, science-backed tools that build emotional resilience and neutralize negative thoughts—from the internationally bestselling author of the 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do series 
 
Whether you’re dealing with constant demands, the pressure to perform, or the stress of adapting to rapid changes, the workplace is often where you’re tested the most mentally and emotionally. As psychotherapist, speaker, and podcast host Amy Morin discovered, sharpening your mental strength is the key to not only tackling workplace challenges but taking your performance to the next level. The Mental Strength Playbook is specifically designed to help you thrive professionally, with 50 scientifically proven plays you can use right now. 
 
Morin helps you navigate tough but common situations at work, like dealing with anxiety in the middle of a sales call or negotiation, staying on task when you’re feeling overwhelmed, or dealing with difficult coworkers. Learning how to manage your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors will help you recover from setbacks faster and optimize your mental game to excel in high-stakes situations. Her workplace-specific strategies are organized to make solving your specific issue quick and easy and include:<ul><li>Dread Diffusers (Play Behavior Bingo or Use the 10-Minute Rule)</li><li>Insight Ignitors (Question Your Question or Brainstorm the Bad Ideas First)</li><li>Anxiety Alleviators (Schedule Time to Worry or Change the Channel in Your Brain)</li><li>Confidence Catalysts (Channel Your Alter Ego or Visit Your Victory Vault)</li></ul> 
Whether you’re struggling with a tight deadline, delivering a high-pressure presentation, or newly leading a team, The Mental Strength Playbook will give you the skills you need to cope with discomfort, prevent burnout, and excel at work.

The Mental Strength Playbook

Rebekah Campbell

Rebecca Campbell

Ask Google for the 'best business biographies' and it'll return a list of similar subjects: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, Phil Knight, Warren Buffet and John Rockefeller. 
There is a huge and underserved market of readers who don't see themselves in these characters. And they are starving for a new story. 
 
Melanie Perkins is the founder and CEO of the graphic design platform Canva. At just 36 years-old, she has built one of the fastest growing companies in history from her home in Sydney, Australia. She has upended the leadership model of her Silicon Valley peers and is creating a blueprint for a generation of entrepreneurs to change the world. Canva is currently valued at US $29 billion making Melanie one of the most successful self-made women ever. Alongside this, Melanie and her co-founder have also pledged to donate 30% of the company, almost all of their personal wealth, to philanthropy. 
 
Dream Crazy Big blends vivid storytelling with intimate reflections from all the significant characters of the Canva success story. It shows how Melanie has spearheaded a corporate culture that has made her company one of the world’s most-used brands and a TIME100 most influential company to work for. A powerful advocate for business for good, Melanie and her leadership team lead from example and illustrate how to make impactful societal changes at scale via Canva’s resources and userbase. Driven by Canva’s 12 success principles for business and featuring exclusive interviews with Canva supporters and allies including Guy Kawasaki and Bob Iger, this exploration of the Canva story will inspire wannapreneurs and aspiring business leaders the world over to do things differently.

Dream Crazy Big

The Unlikely Story of Canva

Will Guidara

From the New York Times bestselling author, former co-owner of the #1 restaurant in the world, and co-producer of the Emmy Award-winning series 'The Bear' comes the much-awaited interactive guide to putting the principles of Unreasonable Hospitality into action in your organization. 
 
With his book Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara issued a compelling invitation: "No matter what business you're in, you can make the choice to be in the hospitality industry." His lessons about service and leadership celebrated the one principle that never goes out of season: the human desire to be taken care of. 
 
If Unreasonable Hospitality is the why, then The Field Guide is the how--a step-by-step roadmap to applying those lessons, including: 
<ul><li>Building and leading your team with consistency, integrity--and yes, hospitality</li><li>Developing a culture of hospitality with five essential components--excellence, communication, collaboration, feedback, and repair--and the systems that will keep those values front and center</li><li>Creating bespoke gestures with the power to transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences--as well as how to create a ready-made toolkit of easily implemented ones that feel bespoke.</li></ul> 
Featuring deeply personal stories, his own as well as those of readers he's encountered, the book is packed with practical exercises that are as relevant to the CEO of a Fortune 500 as they are to the ambitious intern at the front desk. Each can be done on your own, with your team, or company-wide at the annual retreat. 
 
Beautifully designed and illustrated in full colour, this delightful, participatory guide—meant to be marked up and discussed—will have you feeling like a kid about to crack open a new colouring book. You'll walk away inspired, with a power pack of specific, immediately actionable ideas to help you elevate the magic in what you do—for yourself, the people you work with, and the people you serve.

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide

Jon McNeill

From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success. 
 
Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse—principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals. 
 
Elon called this five-step framework “The Algorithm.” 
1. Question every requirement. 
2. Delete every possible step in the process. 
3. Simplify and optimize. 
4. Accelerate cycle time. 
5. Automate. 
 
In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools, which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derail it to a period of hypergrowth. During his tenure, revenue boomed from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeill has used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with to supercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring case studies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, and companies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how any business can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.

The Algorithm

The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX

Anthony Klotz

The new science of why we quit, whether we should, and how to make the right choices for our work and lives, by the organizational psychologist who predicted the Great Resignation 
 
Most of us are just one event away from leaving our job. Conventional wisdom and lists of the “top reasons people quit their jobs” would have us believe that people quit when the toxic elements of their jobs grow too big or when they spot a better professional opportunity. But that’s only half the story. In reality, quitting is often triggered by a single event, inside or outside our jobs, that stops us in our tracks and causes us to rethink our relationship with work. 
 
These events are what organizational psychologist Anthony Klotz calls “jolts,” and they are the most underacknowledged realities in our work lives today. Jolts represent pivotal moments in our careers, and yet all too often, we respond to them in ways that harm our well-being and success. In Jolted, Klotz breaks down the different types of jolts we encounter and provides a road map to help us navigate them in ways that improve, rather than derail, our pursuit of the good life through our work.

Jolted

Why We Quit, When to Stay, and Why It Matters

Nir Eyal

Julie Li

What if the only thing standing between you and the seemingly impossible…was belief? 
 
Most of your limits aren’t physical. They’re psychological. In Beyond Belief, bestselling author Nir Eyal (Indistractable, Hooked) reveals how the hidden assumptions you carry shape what you see, how you feel, and what you do—and how to replace them with beliefs that unlock your true potential. 
 
Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and unforgettable case studies, Eyal introduces the Three Powers of Belief: Attention, Anticipation, and Agency. Mastering these powers transforms how you see challenges, feel about the future, and act when it matters most.You’ll learn how to: 
<ul><li>Spot hidden opportunities and solutions others overlook.</li><li>Reclaim your mood, energy, and confidence by reshaping your beliefs.</li><li>Stay calm, decisive, and in control when life feels uncertain.</li><li>Break free from beliefs that sabotage your health, relationships, and career.</li><li>Push further, last longer, and achieve beyond your limits.</li></ul> 
If you’ve ever quit too soon, stalled in your career, or sabotaged your own goals, this book gives you the science and the system to go further than you thought possible. 
 
Surgeries without anesthesia. Placebos that heal. Resilience multiplied 240 times longer. Beyond Belief reveals the science behind these breakthroughs and shows why your limits aren’t fixed—they’re learned. And with the right beliefs, you can achieve breakthrough results.

Beyond Belief

The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Extraordinary Results

Maria Hatzistefanis

How to Make Your First Million

Build wealth with style and audacity

Liz Tran

You’ve heard of IQ and EQ. But in today’s world, they’re no longer enough. We need AQ. 
 
In a time defined by nonstop disruptions, when jobs vanish overnight, industries evolve in months, and yesterday’s rules no longer apply, AQ—the Agility Quotient—is the intelligence you need to handle change, uncertainty, and the unknown. The good news is that, with the right toolkit, you can grow your agility and learn to navigate a world of increasing instability. 
 
Drawing on leadership coach and former venture capitalist Liz Tran’s work with over 200 successful founders, executives, and dozens of companies and organizations, AQ reveals a model for how high-performing teams and managers adapt to uncertainty. Tran will show you how to cultivate “durable skills,” essential human abilities that remain valuable no matter what the future holds. With the book’s Agility Archetype assessment, the book personalizes the AQ journey to every kind of individual. No matter their experience level or ambitions. 
 
Written with conversational flair and practical advice, AQ offers readers a wealth of resources, including: 
<ul><li>Tools to rebuild confidence for when you’re bombarded by life’s curveballs or feeling burned out</li><li>Actionable steps for making a big shift, even when you feel stuck.</li><li>Advice on finding clarity in moments of professional turbulence.</li></ul>AQ also takes readers behind the scenes at companies, from NVIDIA and Microsoft to rising startups like Lex, to see AQ in action. You’ll also meet trailblazers like Maggie Lena Walker, the first female bank president in American history, and Emile-Maurice Hermès, who transformed Hermès into a global luxury powerhouse. 
 
As the adage goes, “the only certain thing is change.” AQ is the critical intelligence for our unpredictable future.

A New Kind of Intelligence for a World that's Always Changing

A Private Thriller

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

A Puffin Book

A Ripley Novel

A Slice of the Moon

A Victorian Mystery

A Walk in...

A Women’s Murder Club Thriller

A chef Paul Delamare Mystery

Aberrations

Across the Universe

Actiphons

Adelia Aguilar

Adrian Mole

Adventures in Time

Aftermath

Against War

Age of X

Agent 21

Agent Z

Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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