Alex Shearer

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, PhD, has spent two decades studying people, technology, and the worlds they make. A Silicon Valley-based futurist and consultant, he has worked with governments and Fortune 500 companies; spoken at venues ranging from CIA headquarters to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the Googleplex; and held academic positions at Stanford and Oxford universities. His is the author of the bestselling Rest and Shorter, a guide for companies on how to work less and get more done. Follow @askpang on Twitter and Instagram, or visit strategy.rest.

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Alex is an author and best-selling children’s book illustrator. Since he could first hold a pencil, Alex has been drawing characters, bringing each to life with a sense of mischief and fun. After studying Illustration for Children’s Publishing at the North Wales School of Art and Design, he went on to illustrate The Runaway Pea, which was selected for the BookTrust’s 2020 Time to Read Campaign. Alex has won the Inspiread 2023 Book Award for his picture book I Did See a Mammoth, the 2020 Shrewsbury Book Fest award and The FCBG 2020 award for his illustrations in The Runaway Pea, as well as being nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and was a finalist in the 2020 Oscar’s Book Prize. His books have been translated into multiple languages. A love of fun storytelling and growing up on 80’s cartoons lead Alex to write his own books, which combine captivating characters and quirky exploits, along with a positive moral message. Alex currently lives in his hometown of Northampton with his wife, two sons, and their chihuahua.

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Alex Y. Ferguson

Alex de Campi's mostly-indie career stretches from her Eisner-nominated debut Smoke (Dark Horse) through recent Eisner nominees Bad Girls (Gallery 13) and Twisted Romance (Image). Plus company work: she's killed off most of Riverdale, twice, in Archie vs Predator I &amp; II. Her next projects are YA adventure The Backups (Imprint / MacMillan, 2020) and a thriller with director Duncan Jones. Catch her YA adventure Reversal on her Patreon, and action-thriller Bad Karma on Panel Syndicate. She also writes for TV and film (the Blade Runner anime &amp; more). She is on social media as @alexdecampi and lives in Manhattan.

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Alexander Aciman

Alexander Armstrong is one half of the comedy duo Armstrong &amp; Miller who had a regular series on Channel 4 from 1997 to 2001 and then returned with three series of the BAFTA winning Armstrong &amp; Miller Show on BBC1 in 2007. Alexander’s many straight acting roles have included Love Life, Life Begins, Mutual Friends and the sitcomHunderby. He frequently hosts Have I Got News For You?, is the voice of Danger Mouse and the narrator of CBeebies cult hit Hey Duggee. Alexander is also a presenter on Classic FM and has a number one bestselling classical album to his name, but is probably best known for presenting the highly successful daytime quiz show Pointless, now in its twelfth series.

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Alexander C. Karp is co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies Inc. The company, established in Palo Alto, California, in 2003, builds software and artificial intelligence capabilities that are used by defense and intelligence agencies in the United States and allied nations around the world, as well as companies across the commercial sector. Karp is a graduate of Haverford College and Stanford Law School. He earned his doctorate in social theory from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Alexander C.Karp

Alexander Chee won a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He has recently been selected as a prestigious LA Times critic-at-large. He lives in New York City.

Alexander Chee

Alexander Douglas was born in Canberra, Australia where he studied music and philosophy. He now teaches the history of philosophy and the philosophy of economics at the University of St Andrews. He has published two books on the philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza and one on the philosophy of debt. He has grown increasingly interested in combining ideas from Western and East Asian philosophy. He loves music, literature, history, and engineering. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh.

Alexander Douglas

Alexander Freed is the author of the Star Wars Alphabet Squadron trilogy, Star Wars: Battle­front: Twilight Company and Star Wars: Rogue One and has written many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he currently re­sides in San Francisco, California. He enjoys the city’s culture, history, and secrets, but he misses snow.

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Alexander Kent's great interest in the ships and men of the eighteenth century navy was aroused when he was still at school. Although he attended fleet reviews and explored modern warships and dockyards with his father, he found that the great days of square riggers and battles at close quarters captured his imagination. H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, was always high on his list of regular visits. 
 
He served in the Royal Navy as a young man, and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and other major theatres of war, but his first love of the great days of sail remained unshaken. 
 
Now firmly established as a leading writer of authentic sea stories, he was the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he wrote over thirty novels and two non-fiction books. He died in January 2017.

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

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Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton in Canada. His first collection, Light Lifting, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won an Atlantic Book Award. In 2019, he won an O Henry Prize for his short story, 'Lagomorph', originally published in Granta, and the first story in Animal Person. MacLeod lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

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Alex Maskill was born in Watford, and grew up both there and in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He's has just completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leicester and now has a degree in Politics. He hopes to follow this with an MSc in Computer Science. 
The Hive Construct is his first novel and won the 2013 Terry Pratchett Prize.

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Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and most popular authors. His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Then, after the publication of his highly successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers through the world. These include the Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series, and the Corduroy Mansions series, novels which started life as a delightful (but challenging to write) cross-media serial, written on the website of the Telegraph Media Group. This series won two major cross-media awards - Association of Online Publishers Digital Publishing Award 2009 for a Cross Media Project and the New Media Age award. In addition to these series, Alexander writes stand-alone books, including The Forever Girl; Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party and Emma - a reworking of the classic Jane Austen novel. He is also the author of a book on Edinburgh, A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh, as well as several collections of short stories, academic works, and over thirty books for children. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for service to literature in 2007. He holds honorary doctorates from nine universities in Europe and North America. In March of 2011 he received an award from the President of Botswana for his services through literature to that country. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh. He is married to a doctor and has two daughters.

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Sam Walker

The secret to winning is not what you think it is. 
 It’s not the coach. It’s not the star. 
 It’s not money. It’s not a strategy. 
 It’s something else entirely. 
 
 The founding editor of The Wall Street Journal’s sports section profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed. Fuelled by a lifetime of sports spectating, twenty years of reporting, and a decade of painstaking research, The Captain Class is not just a book on sports; it is the key to how successful teams are built and how transformative leadership is born. 
 
 Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer the most hotly debated sports question: what are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, applied it to thousands of teams and listed the 16 most dominant teams ever across all sports, from the English Premiere League to the NFL. But what did these freak teams have in common? 
 
 As Walker dug deeper, a pattern emerged: all teams were driven by a singular type of leader, a captain, but not one you might expect. They were unorthodox outliers – awkward and disagreeable, marginally skilled, poor communicators, rule breaking and rather than pursuing fame, hid in the shadows. Captains, in short, who challenge your assumption of what inspired leadership looks like. 
 
 Covering world renowned teams like Barcelona, Brazil, the All Blacks and the New York Yankees to lesser known successes of Soviet ice hockey or French handball, The Captain Class unveils the seven key qualities that make an exceptional leader. Drawing on original interviews with athletes, coaches and managers from two dozen countries, Walker questions if great captains are made or born, why teams pick the wrong captain and how the value of the captain can be revived.

The Captain Class

The Hidden Force Behind the World’s Greatest Teams

Thomas Dekker

'I have success, money, women. I've been lionised by the public and the media. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.' 
 
Thomas Dekker was set to become one of pro cycling’s superstars. But before long, he found himself sucked in by the lure of hedonistic highs and troubled by the intense pressure to perform. 
 
In The Descent, Dekker tells his story of hotel room blood bags, shady rendezvous with drug dealers and late-night partying at the Tour de France. This is Dekker’s journey from youthful idealism to a sordid path of excess and doping that lays bare cycling’s darkest secrets like never before.

The Descent

My word, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and a double dip recession. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern man needs the best advice he can get about how to be the best he can. 
 
Keep Calm for Chaps offers the same pearls of life wisdom, inspirational quotes, proverbs and mantras as Keep Calm and Carry On, but especially for males at their wits' end. A pocket bible for today's man. 
 
'Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway' John Wayne 
 
'A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials' Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
 
'When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her' Sacha Guitry 
 
'Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff' Robert Eliot 
 
'If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter' Albert A Grant

Keep Calm for Chaps

Good Advice for Hard Times

They say love is a many-splendored thing. So what could be more splendid than giving this pocket-sized book of love quotes, sayings and appeasements to show how much you truly care? Following in the footsteps of its less love-filled yet highly successful Keep Calm siblings, Keep Calm and Cuddle Up has all the advice you need to understand the complex matters of the heart. With words of wisdom from Jane Austen and Mark Twain, to Dr Johnson and Dolly Parton, let this compendium of amore guide you along the rocky road of love. 
 
'Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you never can tell' Joan Crawford 
 
'If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain' Dolly Parton 
 
'Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you"' Erich Fromm 
 
'Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience' Dr Johnson 
 
'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love' Jane Austen

Keep Calm and Cuddle Up

Good Advice for Those in Love

Gabriela Herstik

Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life. 
 
Writer, fashion alchemist and modern witch, Gabriela Herstik, unlocks the ancient art of witchcraft so that you can find a brand of magick that works for you. 
 
From working with crystals, tarot and astrology, to understanding sex magick, solstices and full moons; learn how to harness energy, unleash your inner psychic and connect with the natural world. 
 
Full of spells and rituals for self-care, new opportunities and keeping away toxic energy, Craft is the essential lifestyle guide for the modern woman who wants to take control and reconnect with herself. 
 
After all, empowered women run the world (and they’re probably witches).

Craft

How to Be a Modern Witch

Danny Wallace

In the brilliant AWKWARD SITUATIONS FOR MEN, Danny Wallace entertained us with wonderfully funny true stories from his often embarrassing and bewildering everyday life as a man. 
 
Well, Danny is back - and he's even more confused than ever! 
 
A lot has happened to Danny Wallace in the past year. He has had a baby and has been hobnobbing with the powers that be in Hollywood. But that hasn't made him any less awkward. 
 
Being more of a grown up brings its own baffling etiquette and expected social graces, and no-one has told Danny. 
 
Join Danny once again on his very funny stumble through more Awkward Situations. It's not easy being a man!

More Awkward Situations for Men

Chris Moyles

Motor mouth. Loud Mouth. Tubby DJ. Overpaid ego. 
 
What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio 1'? 
 
In The Gospel According to Chris Moyles, Chris dissects the world around him and tackles all sorts of subjects; from interviewing the world's most famous celebrities, to trying to find a parking space in his own street. 
 
But you'll also get to meet his family and friends and learn about how he went from teenage DJ on a psychiatric hospital radio show to become the nation's favourite breakfast show DJ on BBC Radio 1. His is a life lived on and off air. And this book is a combination of both. It's funny, honest and gives Chris a platform to talk about his favourite subject... himself. 
 
Ego? What ego?

The Gospel According to Chris Moyles

The Story of a Man and His Mouth

Jonathan Blyth

Do you look back on your school days, and remember magical times, powerful and enduring friendships, and secret adventures? Well, snap out of it. You're deluding yourself. Based on the popular website playgroundlaw.com The Law of the Playground is a dictionary of the insults, games, torture, legendary anecdotes and pure creative insanity that we all - as pre-moral children -inflicted on each other. Whilst the emphasis is always on humor, the book acknowledges that children can be bastards, and begrudgingly accepts that it's, actually, very amusing. Written with dark nostalgia, and more wit and substance than average, everyone can find something they will identify with in The Law of the Playground. A timely antidote to the rose-tinted view of childhood offered by FriendsReunited.co.uk and SchoolDisco.com.

The Law Of The Playground

A puerile and disturbing dictionary of playground insults and games

Martin Corona

From Boy Scout to assassin – the true confessions of a cartel hitman 
 
At the age of twelve Martin Corona started dealing drugs. After years in and out of prison, he rose through the ranks to become the leader of an elite killing squad for a notorious Tijuana drug cartel. Now haunted by his past deeds, he lives with the fact that he once pulled the trigger on a pregnant woman in front of her seven-year-old child, and accidentally shot a cardinal while hunting down El Chapo in an airport. 
 
Martin Corona has been convicted of multiple murders committed during his time as a cartel career hitman. These killings were brutal and cruelly efficient. Corona's gang would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, eradicate whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. 
 
In this book, Martin’s shocking first-hand confessions illuminate his descent from teenage drug dealer to murderous member of the drug cartel run by the Arellano brothers that dominated the Southern California drug trade - and initiated much violent gang warfare - for decades. 
 
Martin's story illuminates how a young boy, who played Little League football and was a Boy Scout, became a vicious criminal. Both shocking and powerful, it asks us how someone can inflict so much evil and whether they can find forgiveness on the other side.

Confessions of a Cartel Hitman

Simon Goddard

They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to stand in their way. 
 
Postcard Records was the mad, makeshift and quite preposterous result. Launching the careers of Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and cult heroes Josef K, the self-styled ‘Sound of Young Scotland’ stuck it to the London music biz and, quite by accident, kickstarted the 1980s indie music revolution. 
 
Simon Goddard has interviewed everyone involved in the making of the Postcard legend to tell this thrilling rock’n’roll story of punk audacity, knickerbocker glories, broken windscreens, raccoon-fur hats, comedy, violence and creating something beautiful from nothing, against all the odds.

Simply Thrilled

The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records

Rachel Williams

‘He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun – a sawn-off shotgun.’ 
 
Featured on ITV's Lorraine with Michael Sheen and Rachel Williams. 
 
 Darren was funny and attractive, and 21-year-old Rachel fell head-over-heels for him; it wasn’t long before they moved in together, and she fell pregnant with his child. But his inner demons soon surfaced... Weakened and alone, Rachel was beaten and tormented by him for 18 years, until one day, Darren turned up at her place of work with a shotgun and left her for dead. But her ordeal wasn’t over… 
 
 Devastating yet inspiring, Rachel’s story of hope tells of how you can always find the light, even in the very darkest of times. 
 
‘Incredibly poignant and powerful.’ – Victoria Derbyshire 
 
 ‘Transformative. Life changing.’ – Michael Sheen

The Devil At Home

The horrific true story of a woman held captive

Lily Collins

This international bestseller features a new chapter and never-before-seen photos! 
 
In this groundbreaking debut essay collection, featuring never-before-seen photos, actress Lily Collins - star of To the Bone and Emily in Paris - is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships, family, dating and so much more. 
 
 For the first time ever, Lily shares her life and her own deepest secrets, proving that every single one of us experiences pain and heartbreak. We all understand what it's like to live in the light and in the dark. For Lily, it's about making it through to the other side, where you love what you see in the mirror and where you embrace yourself just as you are. She's learned that all it takes is one person standing up and saying something for everyone else to realise they're not alone. 
 
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Lily's honest voice will inspire you to be who you are and say what you feel. It's time to claim your voice! It's time to live your life unfiltered.

Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me

Christopher Winn

With the royal wedding around the corner, there no better time than the present to get acquainted with Royal Britain 
 
Bestselling author Christopher Winn explores Britain's royal past, unearthing a rich legacy of castles and palaces, cathedrals and country retreats, battlefields and monuments where kings and queens lived and died. 
 
In this exploration of royal British history, discover whose heart is buried near the Tower of London; which palace was built on top of a mulberry garden; the world's oldest and largest occupied castle and the first building in Britain to have latrines. 
 
From the Palace of Scone to the Palace of Westminster, from Pembroke Castle, the birthplace of Henry VII, to Pontefract Castle, where Richard II starved to death, and from banqueting halls to beheading sites, this gem of a book is guaranteed to inform and amuse in equal measure.

I Never Knew That About Royal Britain

Lauren Toyota

Feed your face with satisfying, delicious food. 
 
Vegan Comfort Classics is a collection of 101 mouth-watering recipes that combine innovative plant-based cooking with flavoursome comfort food. 
 
YouTube sensation Lauren Toyota of the hit vegan channel, Hot for Food, offers indulgent, crave-worthy dishes such as Courgette-Onion Bhajis, Mac ‘n Cheese Onion Rings, Herb-loaded Sausage Rolls, Spicy Peanut Noodles, Waffle-topped Cottage Pie, Stuffed Crust Pizza, Raspberry Funfetti Pop Tarts, Fudgy Brownies as well as a whole chapter of delicious melty, stacked sandwiches and essential sauces to make any meal awesome. Each and every tempting recipe is photographed. 
 
This is modern, tasty food made for weeknights, sharing with friends at the weekend, late-night munchies and beyond.

Vegan Comfort Classics

101 Recipes to Feed Your Face

'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. Davies 
 
Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot – but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher Winn, bestselling author of I Never Knew That About London, knows where all the hidden treasures are. 
 
This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular period of history, the Victorian, so ubiquitous that we take it for granted, and yet so astonishing and so far reaching in its variety, imagination, ambition and detail. 
 
Discover... 
 
..the remarkable 300-foot bell tower at the Houses of Parliament you never knew was there.... 
..the extraordinary fairytale house in Kensington where the Mikado was inspired... 
..the best Victorian loos in the world near Old Street... 
..a hidden chapel in Bloomsbury described by Oscar Wilde as 'the most delightful private chapel in London'... 
..London's best preserved high class Victorian shop near Tottenham Court Road… 
...an almost complete Victorian townscape boasting the world's oldest surviving mansion block... 
 
Walk through history and discover the hidden gems of Victorian London!

Walk Through History

Discover Victorian London

Style inspiration for everyone, no matter your size. 
 
Be inspired by 100 of the very best plus-size street style images from around the world. 
 
Plus-size fashion is daring, experimental and deeply personal. There's no longer any shame in not fitting the traditional ideals of beauty, as proven by Gabi Gregg, Tess Holliday, Beth Ditto and thousands of bloggers and models acround the world. 
 
The online plus-size fashion community is loud, international and confident. Millions of #ootd photos are shared everyday, showing off amazing style and beautiful people. Plus+ gathers together the very best, and celebrates all shapes, sizes and aesthetics - a beautiful, sharply designed, glossy collection to inspire everyone, plus-size or otherwise.

Plus+

David Ovason

The secrets of the world’s greatest illusions revealed! 
 
Learn clever tricks and daring deceptions! 
 
An indispensible guide for the home Magician! 
 
Beginning with instruction in simple sleights-of-hand, which may be mastered and performed by any amateur magician for the delight of their friends, The Book of Magic includes directions in the performance of more sophisticated illusions, and exposes the methods behind such famous feats as levitation, sawing a woman in half, or disappearing an elephant. 
 
A fascinating look into the Art of Conjuring, The Book of Magic provides practical hints, tips and inspiration for any aspiring illusionist, and is an essential addition to the library of all Magicians.

The Book of Magic

Cat Marnell

'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. That’s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholic-in-training who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss’s office with the door closed; a conniving and manipulative uptown doctor-shopper; a salami-and-provolone-puking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often); a weepy, wobbly, wildly hallucination-prone insomniac; a tweaky self-mutilator; a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl; and – perhaps most of all – a lonely weirdo. But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.' 
 
By the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines - but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Condé Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescribed amphetamines. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day. 
 
Witty, magnetic and penetrating - prompting comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski - Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation, brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pin-sharp humour and beguiling style. 
 
 
'New York's enfant terrible...Her talent has resided in her uncanny ability to write about addiction from the untidy, unsafe, unhappy epicentre of the disease, rather than from some writerly remove.' Telegraph 
 
'I LOVE this book' Catriona Innes, Cosmopolitan Magazine UK 
 
'An unputdownable, brilliantly written rollercoaster' Shappi Khorsandi 
 
'Brilliantly written and harrowing and funny and honest' Louise France, The Times Magazine 
 
'Easily one of the most anticipated memoirs of the year...[Marnell's] got an inimitable style (and oh my god, so many have tried) and a level of talent so high, it's impossible not to be rooting for her.' NYLON

How to Murder Your Life

Melissa Hemsley

"Eat Happy? I’m always happy when I eat Melissa’s food!" GARY BARLOW 
"I adore Melissa and her food. This is carefree, quick cooking with a sense of fun, and just happens to be good for you.” ANNA JONES 
"I'm a huge fan and love how Melissa champions the message that good healthy food needn't be complicated, scary or time consuming. This beautiful new book is packed with dreamy recipes.” FEARNE COTTON 
"Don't think I've ever met anyone with such a passion, love and joy for food. She's amazing!” GIOVANNA FLETCHER 
 
 Delicious quick and easy meals with a Hemsley twist. 
 
Bestselling home cook and co-author of The Art of Eating Well and Good + Simple, Melissa Hemsley of Hemsley + Hemsley, presents flavourful and veg-packed dishes. 
 
Featuring supermarket ingredients, simple methods, and tips and tricks to make no-fuss great food, Eat Happy is designed to see you through the whole week - tempting breakfasts to family dinners and lunches, as well as party food, snacks, baking, desserts, drinks, and simple, healthier versions of takeaway favourites. 
 
Comfort and indulgence are at the heart of Melissa healthy food, with plenty of ideas for everyday meals, batch cooking, cutting down on kitchen waste, and dishes that can be enjoyed for supper and leftovers for a packed lunch. 
 
 Amongst the 120 brand-new recipes are, Breaded Chicken Katsu Curry, Sesame Salmon with Miso Veg Traybake, Roast Carrots with Pomegranate Molasses and Pistachios, Coconut Chocolate Clusters and Ginger Fruit Loaf. 
 
 These are delicious alternatives and satisfying treats that encourage even the most time-poor cook to take pleasure in healthy fast food that puts taste first.

Eat Happy: 30-minute Feelgood Food

Isabel Eriksson

"I'm not going to let you go. It took longer than I'd bargained to get you unconscious. I'm planning to keep you here for a couple of years or so." 
 
When Isabel Eriksson wakes up she’s not sure where she is. She’s got a needle in her arm. Next to the bed a man is sitting and staring at her. He tells her that he intends to keep her locked up. 
 
Isabel realises that the only way for her to get out alive is to somehow make him release her and so a psychological game begins. 
 
Will Isabel remain in the bunker forever?

You Are Mine

Drugged and Held in a Secret Bunker. This is My True Story of Escape.

With 150 mouth-watering, step-by-step recipes, stunning photography and invaluable tips, this is the official companion to the Instant Pot for the British home cook - your ultimate pressure cooker, slow cooker and steamer ALL IN ONE! 
 
'This book is a miracle! -- ***** Reader review 
'The perfect accompaniment to the cooker!' -- ***** Reader review 
'One of the most straightforward, easy cookbooks out on the market. I'm very pleased with it!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Magnificent' -- ***** Reader review 
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Get dinner on the table in an instant or pop everything into a pot, enjoy your day and come home to a delicious, freshly made meal. 
 
 We're all busier than ever and have less time to cook, but we also want to eat more healthily. 
The Instant Pot is a unique combination of pressure cooker and slow cooker (and frying pan, warmer and steamer) in one handy package, which is revolutionizing home cooking by making it easy and foolproof to get quick, healthy, delicious food on the table after a long day. 
 
 The Instant Pot Miracle Cookbook is the first and only official UK recipe book, bringing together over 150 delicious recipes for your Instant Pot, from breakfast to dessert. 
 
 Enjoy everyday favourites such as One-Pot Lasagne, Pork Ragu, Three-cheese Bacon and Onion Crustless Quiche, and Tikka Masala as well as simple but impressive dinner party showstoppers such as Steamed Lobster Tail with Meunière Sauce and Crème Brulée. 
 
 With colour step-by-step photography, instructions on how to master the basics on your Instant Pot and stunning recipes for beginners and more experienced cooks, this is the ultimate companion to this 'life-changing' appliance.

The Instant Pot Miracle Cookbook

Over 150 step-by-step foolproof recipes for your electric pressure cooker, slow cooker or Instant Pot®. Fully authorised.

Tasty

The international bestseller and first cookbook from Tasty and Proper Tasty - all your favourite recipes to date, in handy book form. With stunning photography and step-by-step foolproof recipes - this is dinner sorted! 
 
'Plenty of recipes that will leave you inspired' -- ***** Reader review 
'Perfect all round' -- ***** Reader review 
'A great cookbook filled with easy quick tasty recipes' -- ***** Reader review 
'What a great book!' --- ***** Reader review 
'Love, love, love this book!!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Freakin' awesome' -- ***** Reader review 
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Tasty, Buzzfeed's popular cooking brand, delivers both comforting and healthy weeknight dinners for meat-lovers, vegetarians, and vegans alike, plus treats like ice cream, chocolate desserts, and rainbow recipes galore. 
 
Find all your favourite recipes to date, as voted by your likes, comments, shares, smiles and happy bellies, in one brilliant book. 
 
Here you'll find over 80 amazing recipes with staying power, including ... 
 
Fried Mac 'n' Cheese Sticks; Chicken Satay Skewers; Barbecue Beer Can Chicken; Honey-Garlic Slow Cooked Ribs; Mexican-style Pork Tacos; Classic Tomato Lasagne; Cheesiest Garlic Bread Ever; Peanut Noodle Pasta Salad; Vegan Mac 'n' Cheese; Falafel; Giant Cinnamon Roll; White Chocolate Chip Truffles; Fudgiest Brownies Ever; Chewiest Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever; Unicorn Cheesecake; Emoji Fries; Fidget Spinner Cookies and Chocolate Galaxy Bark! 
 
Will mouth-watering photography and step-by-step recipes, this is dinner sorted. BOOM!

Tasty: Latest and Greatest

Everything you want to cook right now - The official cookbook from Buzzfeed’s Tasty and Proper Tasty

David Smiedt

In 2003, David Smiedt began a journey of discovery around South Africa. As a child his parents had taken him on endless car journeys to teach him the history of their country and tell him about his relatives and the places they had inhabited. 30 years later, he sets out to retrace those journeys but it soon turns into a love letter to his native country. 
 
This is a beautifully written travel book, with the most fantastic sense of smell, sight and sound. David also provides a real insight into the countries people describing how they have been shaped over the years by politics and migrants.

Are We There Yet?

dodie

Be inspired this New Year by a young woman's journey through life, love and lyrics 
 
When I feel like I'm going mad, I write. 
 
A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when they happened, the world would end. 
 
But the world didn't end. In fact, it pushed on and demanded to keep spinning through all sorts of mayhem, and I got through it. And because I persisted, I learned lessons about how to be a stronger, kinder, better human – lessons you can only learn by going through these sorts of things. 
 
This is for the people with minds that just don't stop; for those who feel everything a thousand times more than others around them. 
 
Here are some words I wrote.

Secrets for the Mad

Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons

L'Officine Universelle Buly

Allow yourself to be transported back to beauty’s golden age with An Atlas of Natural Beauty. First established as a Parisian trendsetter in the 19th century, the beauty emporium has been reincarnated as L'Officine Universelle Buly on Rue Bonaparte in Paris. 
 
Invention and natural beauty are at the heart of Buly and this exquisitely designed book allows you to sample their unique aesthetic heritage as a French apothecary as well as discover the modern uses, properties and home beauty recipes for over 80 seeds, flowers, oils, trees, fruits and herbs. 
 
Including an exotic and diverse range of botanicals – from apricot and avocado to argan oil and aloe vera – there are explanations for where the ingredient came from, its history, how it has been used in the past and recipes for how to use it as a beauty solution now. 
 
This is the perfect guide for all modern natural beauty enthusiasts as the virtues of each ingredient are highlighted and clearly explained to ensure naturally radiant skin is easily achievable.

An Atlas of Natural Beauty: Botanical ingredients for retaining and enhancing beauty

Nadine Levy Redzepi

'This is great family cooking: inviting, achievable and simply delicious.' Nigel Slater 
'This book is full of ideas, enthusiasm, flavour - and heart.’ Nigella Lawson 
'A wonderful collection of everyday home-cooked meals.' Jamie Oliver 
 
Bring love and deliciousness into your kitchen. 
 
Inspired by her own childhood and life-long love of food, Nadine Levy Redzepi has created a personal and inviting notebook of recipes that bring her family together around the kitchen table. Nadine talks you step-by-step through each recipe with warmth, encouragement and detailed instructions. 
 
Nadine ensures that home cooking always feels relaxed and enjoyable and your kitchen becomes the heart of your home, no matter your skill or confidence level. 
 
Downtime is the wonderful, simple food that Nadine and the Redzepi family share.

Downtime

Deliciousness at Home

Stephen Wildish

Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business. Owing to the rich and complex history of swearing, a single word can have a host of different meanings – from expressing surprise, excitement, anger, celebration, disgust or simply that you’re fucked off. If you don’t get it right, you could really be in the shit. 
 
How to Swear, by graphic artist and swearing-connoisseur Stephen Wildish, uses all manner of charts and flow diagrams to teach you all you need to know, including: the building blocks of an effective insult; the adverbial uses of various types of animal excrement (horseshit, apeshit etc); and the different parts of speech a swear word can fulfil: ‘Fucking fuck, the fucking fucker’s fucked’. This charming (and rude) book will take you right to the heart of the wondrous world of swearing, with a lot of laughs on the way.

How to Swear

Ruth Rogers

Sian Wyn Owen

Joseph Trivelli

Rose Gray

From the Fortnum &amp; Mason 2018 Food and Drink Award winner: 'One of the most beautiful hardbacks we’ve ever seen' The Evening Standard 
 
An iconic restaurant. 
A celebratory cookbook. 
Simply delicious Italian homecooking at its best. 
 
With River Cafe 30, Ruth Rogers and her head-chefs, Joseph Trivelli and Sian Wyn Owen, invite you to join them in marking 30 years of memories and good food at London's The River Cafe. 
 
Since 1987, The River Cafe has championed simple, good quality Italian cooking. Ruth, Joseph and Sian have revisited and updated the best dishes from the first blue cookbook and introduce 30 new favourites from the menus today - Panzanella, Ravioli with Ricotta, Raw Tomato and Basil, Risotto with Porcini and Girolles, Braised Beef Fillet and, of course, Chocolate Nemesis. 
 
Including Ruth's memories and unseen archive images, Rose's careful tips and hand-drawn illustrations, new photography by Jean Pigozzi and Matthew Donaldson, bespoke menu artworks from the restaurant's friends and 120 classic Italian recipes, River Cafe 30 encapsulates the essence of the restaurant and its food. 
 
This is a beautiful cookbook of recipes you'll want to cook time and again - a must-have for all food lovers.

River Cafe 30

Simple Italian recipes from an iconic restaurant

Mark Felt

John O'Connor

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Liam Neeson. 
 
It was the biggest mystery of American history. A shadowy source deep within Washington had leaked crucial information to two journalists, helping them uncover the historical Watergate Scandal of 1972. But who was this elusive source and what were his motivations? Thirty-three years later, the FBI’s Mark Felt would finally identify himself as Deep Throat, the Watergate Whistleblower. This is his story. 
 
Mark Felt learnt spy craft tracking Nazi and Soviet spies, tackled mobsters in Kansas City and took down the FBI’s most wanted list, rising through the ranks under J Edgar Hoover to one of the FBI’s top positions. 
 
A life spent watching pivotal moments of history unfold, Mark Felt was the eyes and ears of the intelligence service. Drawing on his memoirs, FBI memos, secret files and conversations with his family and friends, this is the account of a G-Man’s life and his struggle for honour in Washington. 
 
This new edition is updated with the help of Mark’s lawyer, John O’Connor, drawing on new developments and why now, the role of Deep Throat, is even more important than ever.

Felt

The Man Who Brought Down the White House – Now a Major Motion Picture

Le Bab

The ultimate late night takeaway dish gets a new lease of life in this fabulous cookbook from the chefs behind the Soho restaurant, Le Bab. With over 60 accessible recipes and stunning full colour photography, this is the perfect way to satisfy those late-night cravings with gourmet recipes for fresh, accessible and delicious kebabs! 
 
'The kebabs are beautiful.' -- Time Out 
'Cleverly crafted kebabs.' -- Evening Standard 
'Brilliant book with a huge variety of recipes' -- ***** Reader review 
'Phenomenal' -- ***** Reader review 
'Makes Kebabs Great Again' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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Scrap the greasy kebab made from unknown and unexciting ingredients, and instead indulge in delicious, flavour-packed dishes made the right way and using the best ingredients. 
 
With over 60 accessible recipes including ideas for Mezze, Basics, Kebabs, Mains and Cocktails, these dishes can be made at home and paired together to create a feast for your family and friends and fit for any occasion. 
 
Taking inspiration from their culinary training and focusing on provenance, seasonality and technique, Le Bab have reinvented the classics as well as creating completely ingenious new combinations. 
 
From Cauliflower pastilla, Endive and pomegranate salad, and Merguez and chickpea ragu, to kebabs that include Grilled mackerel with dill, pickle and fennel, Spring chicken with sprouting broccoli and harissa mayo and Winter pork with beetroot relish, charred cabbage and crackling, there are recipes suitable for vegetarians and vegans, along with a wide variety of both meats and fish. 
 
Embrace the flexibility and flavours of the kebab!

The Modern Kebab

60 delicious recipes for flavour-packed, gourmet kebabs

Jack Reacher Short Stories

Jack Ryan

Jack Ryan Jr

Jack Slater

Jack Stalwart

Jack Tanner

Jack and Millie

Jackson Brodie is a private investigator, originally from Yorkshire. A former soldier and policeman he now makes his money working from investigating infidelity and finding missing cats. Jackson's tough-guy exterior belies a deeply empathetic heart. He's unable to resist coming to the rescue and increasingly he becomes a magnet for the bereaved, the lost and the dysfunctional. His ability to connect comes from his own tragic childhood that still haunts him. 
 
Jackson Brodie has appeared in four of Kate Atkinson's novels. Each can be read in isolation but are best enjoyed in order of publication: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?, Started Early, Took My Dog.

Jackson Brodie

Jacksonville Rays

Jacky Ha-Ha Series

Jake Cake

Jamaal Target

James Beck

James Bond 007

Jane Smith

Japanese Classics

Meet the hilarious British dilettante Bertram 'Bertie' Wooster who can't seem to help finding himself in the middle of awkward social situations, calling upon his valet Jeeves to escape embarrassment.

Jeeves & Wooster

Jenny Q

Jess Tennant

Joe Rat Adventures

Joey Pigza

Johnny Maxwell

Jon Katz

Jonathon Payne & David Jones

Joseph Stark

Journey into Space

Jumpman

Post-graduation, Allyson Healey decided to embark on a three week tour of Europe. It all goes according to plan until she meets Willem. He is everything she is not; free spirited, a risk taker. She allows herself to be swept away by him for just 24 hours, and then returns home the next day. Willem, determined to find her, puts his trust in fate and travels the world hoping that somewhere he will come across her. This sweepingly romantic trio of novels is filled with emotion, romance and a life affirming belief in fate.

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