A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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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 novels and is an ambassador for Wattpad, known as @agatharoza. Entwined is her first novel.

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A. K. Davidson

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.

A.L. Kennedy

A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children.

A.M. Ellis

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. T. Emerald lives with her husband and baby daughter in Nottinghamshire. She discovered her love of writing in 2020 and has not shut up about enemies to lovers ever since. She loves iced matcha, torrid love confessions with knives pressed to throats (fictional, of course) and does not accept bills for any therapy her books might incur.

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A.W. Priest

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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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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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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Deepak Chopra

David Simon

Vicki Abrams

Using exercises and techniques developed over ten years of teaching a popular series of workshops at the Chopra Center for Well Being, Dr Deepak Chopra shows readers how to see parenthood from a very different perspective. 
 
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives uses meditation, yoga, dietary guidelines, natural remedies, visualization, journaling and drawing to enhance the experience of pregnancy and birth for both parents and baby. Also included are practical strategies to prepare the parents for labour and delivery, caring for the newborn child and enjoying parenthood. 
 
By applying established techniques from Deepak Chopra's internationally famous mind/body approach to the experience of pregnancy, childbirth and early infancy, Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives adds previously unexplored dimensions of physical health, joy and insight to elevate one of life's primal experiences to the realm of the miraculous.

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives

How to use meditation, yoga and other techniques to give your child the perfect start in life, from conception to early

Tony Hogan

In Born to Heal, Tony Hogan tells us the story of his remarkable life, from his colourful childhood in County Wicklow to his experiences as one of Ireland's foremost healers. Blighted as a child by life-threatening illness, yet blessed with the extraordinary ability to heal others, Tony gradually matured his abilities and people began to seek him out to ask for his help. Born to Heal shares some of the techniques that Tony Hogan used to develop his own powers. 
 
Packed full of practical help on self-healing, this fascinating book also explores the power of the mind and absent healing. It is full of astounding case histories and is by turns funny, entertaining, insightful and moving. Ultimately, Born to Heal offers a positive message: human suffering can be relieved when all the normal remedies have failed.

Born To Heal

Human ageing is reversible.  Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others.  Using the tools in this book, you can learn specific strategies for melting away those biological years so you can feel, perform and look like you did as many as fifteen years ago. Grow Younger, Live Longer is a complete anti-ageing manual, including a simple programme, at the heart of which are ten essential steps.  If you incorporate these into your weekly routine, your age-reversal process will very soon be underway. Combining all the knowledge and pioneering spirit that made Ageless Body, Timeless Mind into a huge international bestseller, with all the latest discoveries in mind/body medicine, Grow Younger, Live Longer will show millions of readers round the world how they can achieve a long life filled with joy and vitality.

Grow Younger, Live Longer

Ten steps to reverse ageing

Despite advances in conventional treatment, heart disease remains the leading cause of death among adults in the West. Fast-paced lifestyles, high stress levels, poor diets and addiction to unhealthy activities such as smoking and drinking are contributing factors. In Healing the Heart, Dr Deepak Chopra shows how to reduce your risk of coronary disease by following an individually tailored regime, based on ancient Ayurvedic principles. There is advice on diet, exercise, meditation and self-awareness, designed to promote a healthy heart by opening the energising and healing pathways that unite mind, body and spirit.

Healing The Heart

The Complete Mind-Body Programme for Overcoming Heart Disease

Gary Quinn

May the Angels Be With You is a guided spiritual voyage with a psychic who will connect you with your personal angelic messengers and empower you to accomplish your highest goals. Gary Quinn will teach you to find answers to your questions about health, money, relationships, career and love from your own angelic messengers, and transform your life. 'Gary Quinn's work with the angels makes us believe in ourselves much more. We must believe in angels, miracles and prayers. This information can change your life' Nastassia Kinski

May The Angels Be With You

Now available in B format, Overcoming Addictions shows how to escape dependency on the many mood-altering, and potentially harmful, substances now available. Many of us are addicted to all sorts of things: food, alcohol, coffee, cigarettes and drugs. According to Dr Chopra, many conventional forms of treatment for addiction are negative and fear-based, and therefore less likely to succeed long-term than a more positive, life-enhancing approach. In this programme, based on ancient principles of Ayurvedic mind-body medicine, he enables the reader to become more attuned to the needs and benefits of the spirit, allowing the mind and body to shed destructive dependencies and move on to more satisfying alternatives.

Overcoming Addictions

The Complete Mind-Body Programme for Addictive Behaviour

Ted J Kaptchuk

Ted Kaptchuk

In the ancient tradition of Chinese medicine, illness is a disharmony of the whole body. The aim is to restore harmony through herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion and the diagnostic skills of the physician. The governing principle is to balance Yin and Yang and to restore the interconnections between all aspects of the organism. This remarkable book explains the theory and practice of Chinese medicine. More than that, it mixes the most up-to-date knowledge of the oriental approach to healing with cutting-edge scientific research. 
 
'While the book's rich detail makes it of great use to practising healers, it is in its entirety very simply written, enjoyable reading for the layman... An instructive, profound and important work.' Professor Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

Chinese Medicine

The Web That Has No Weaver

Ginna Bell Bragg

'This book is about food for the soul.  It is about the celebration of nourishment at all levels: physical, mental and spiritual' -         Deepak Chopra                                                        According to the holistic principles of Ayurvedic medicine, on which the work of the Chopra Centre is based, the same spirit that animates all living things also exists in food - and eating is therefore a magical, spiritual experience, a celebration of life.     This cookbook offers a totally different approach to nutrition with delicious, unusual and easy-to-make vegetarian recipes designed to help you keep your physical, mental and spiritual energies in balance.

The Chopra Centre Cookbook

Vegetarian Recipies for Body, Mind and Spirit

In The Chopra Centre Herbal Handbook, Dr Deepak Chopra and Dr David Simon draw on the forty most important herbs used in Ayurveda, from aloe and amrit kalash to ginger and winter cherry, to create a practical, popular reference book that shows how to, for example, strengthen immunity, rejuvenate the body, boost energy and detoxify the system. Each listing explains the specific ailments which that herb can remedy, as well as instructions on how to use it, precautions, scientific research and botanical information.  Health problems which are addressed include digestive disorders, those of the mind and emotions, women's and men's health issues, metabolism, pain, arthritis and inflammation, circulation and many more.

The Chopra Centre Herbal Handbook

Now available in b format, Perfect Digestion shows you how to: 
 
* Understand your digestive tract 
* Fine-tune your diet to minimise intestinal problems 
* Discover the relationship between your emotions and your gut 
* Learn how biological rhythms affect your whole digestive system. 
 
Throughout this helpful and essential book, Deepak Chopra offers practical advice on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), constipation, diarrhoea, gaseousness and other digestive disorders which have such a distressing effect on so many people. As the world's leading exponent of mind-body medicine, Dr Chopra explains the importance of considering the body as a whole and the many useful techniques and insights which Ayurvedic medicine uses to combat these ailments - to make you feel healthier and brighter than you have for many a day.

Perfect Digestion

The Complete Mind-Body Programme for Overcoming Digestive Disorders

Now available in b format RESTFUL SLEEP shows you how to: Fall asleep easily, without trying. Feel rested when you wake up. Avoid sleeping pills and other drugs. Identify and eliminate the imbalances causing your insomnia. Deal effectively with overactive thinking at bedtime. Achieve a healthy balance of rest and activity in your life. In this programme, based on ancient principles of mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra teaches you how to overcome sleep problems by getting in touch with nature's rhythms. Step by step you'll learn techniques to eliminate the underlying causes of insomnia - and create a balanced mind and body. As a result, you'll sleep deeply at night every night - without medication, giving your body the rest it needs to restore your natural vitality.

Restful Sleep

The Complete Mind/Body Programme for Overcoming Insomnia

Judith Orloff

Unique in being both a highly trained psychiatrist and a psychic, Judith Orloff shows us how to rediscover our intuitive intelligence in order to heal our bodies, minds and sexual selves. In this remarkable book, she presents give tools which help awaken this faculty within us and explores: * How conscious and unconsious beliefs affect healing * How mediation and other techniques heighten self awareness * How the body's subtle energies speed or inhibit healing, and how to tune into them. * How to use prayer and other techniques to enhance intuition * How to tap into the unconscious through dreamwork. As Dr Orloff explains, intuition plays a powerful role in self diagnosis, pain control, immune response and recovery from illness; it can be used for sexual healing, and to achieve breakthroughs in anxiety and depression. Providing step-by-step guidance, as well as examples from Judith Orloff's personal experience and her patients, this practical and unusual book will help you achieve true wellbeing.

Intuitive Healing

Five steps to physical, emotional and sexual wellness

In THE WAY OF THE WIZARD, Deepk Chopra sheds light on 20 life-enhancing principles for rediscovering the magic that we have lost, but that remains within our grasp. The result, in effect, is a practical and accessible guide to one of life's shortest but most rewarding journeys: the one into the realm of boundless possibilities that exist within and all around us. 
 
THE WAY OF THE WIZARD is a natural outgrowth of Dr Chopra's work on the themes and metaphysics of the medieval Merlin myth and a development of his work on the philosphy and application of magic. THE WAY OF THE WIZARD is for the seeker in all of us.

The Way Of The Wizard

20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life

In this groundbreaking personal development book, influential teacher and physician Deepak Chopra, explores how our hearts have lost their centre and why love so often falls short of filling a deep, aching need within us. He also explains how we can find the love we long for, one which is rich and meaningful, satisfying and lasting - by restoring to love its missing element: spirituality. 
 
In presenting the long-forgotten, timeless laws of love, together with practical suggestions for bringing them into our lives, Deepak Chopra shows us how to transform our lives forever - and the lives of those whom we love.

Path To Love

Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need

`Deepak Chopra`s thoughts on spirituality and child rearing are original, profound and fascinating' BENJAMIN SPOCK, MD 
 
Deepak Chopra`s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success have touched a chord around the globe because of their simplicity and trust. This parenting book takes those laws one by one and explores the many ways parents can bring them into the lives of their children. Explaining that success depends on who you are rather than what you do, this world-renowned physician and author shows that spirituality lies at the source of all achievement in life. Suggesting ways that parents can help their children absorb this timeless wisdom from an early age, Deepak Chopra offers a daily programme of practical, thought-provoking ideas for the whole family to follow. In this way, parents can teach their children how to live in the most effortless, harmonious and creative way - and thus know true abundance thoughout their lives.

The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success For Parents

Guiding your Children to success and Fulfilment

Denise Linn

Whether we are conscious of it or not, the universe is communicating to us through signs. Native peoples have always known how to interpret these powerful messages, but with the development of technology and the increasing stress of our modern lives, we have become more and more removed from our connection to the earth and from our inner wisdom. We have lost our ability to decipher the signs that surround us and that appear in our dreams, and we are largely unable to tap in to our innate intuition. Drawing on her Cherokee Indian heritage and her experience with the native tribes of Africa, Australia and New Zealand, international healer Denise Linn helps us to reconnect with the magic of our inner selves so that we may properly interpret these signs and the true meanings of our dreams - and make the right decisions and choices in our lives. Including a comprehensive dictionary of signs and dreams for ease of reference, SIGNPOSTS is essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly hear the `whispers of the universe'.

Signposts

The Universe is Whispering to You

Bernie Siegel

'We do have biological LIVE and DIE mechanisms within us. . . the state of mind changes the state of the body by working through the central nervous system, the endocrine system and the immune system. Exceptional patients manifest the will to live in its most potent form . . . ' writes Dr Bernie Siegel. Drawing on his clinical experience Dr Seigel show how, by reaching out to others, we can alleviate stress and release the body's healing mechanism. In this extraordinary book he shows that when apparently terminally ill patients take control of their illness they can change, enrich and often prolong their lives far beyond scientific and medical expectation. Through the healing power of love patients who have come under his care have learned that hope and joy can work miracles.

Love, Medicine And Miracles

Full of inspiring stories of patients who have achieved remissions and miraculous cures for illnesses such as mulitple sclerosis and cancer, Dr Siegel shows us how emotions such as love, hope, joy and peace of mind have strong physiological effects on each of us, as do depression and dispair. Peace, Love and Healing teaches us to be receptive to the messages our mind gives our body through dreams and symbols, and how to view illness as a 'reset button' enabling us to redirect our lives. Equally importantly the book explains how to give your body healing messages therough the use of meditation, visualization and relaxation. Although the important role of modern medicine is recognised, Bernie Siegel offers us many examples and case studies of the remarkable results that we can achieve through body-mind communication and reiterates his essential point - that love heals.

Peace, Love And Healing

John Ruskan

Ruskan

There is more and more discussion today about our vital need to release trapped, negative feelings as a way of reaching personal fulfilment and optimal health. In this ground-breaking, highly praised work, John Ruskan presents a profound system of self-therapy, based on both Eastern and Western methods, through which you can learn how to: Understand your real feelings and use them for emotional and spiritual growth. Prevent negative ones from contaminating your life and relationships. Enhance emotional release through well-tested, easy-to-follow techniques. Initiate deep personal change. Typical emotional issues with which we all struggle include depression, anxiety, anger, love/hate, loneliness, sexual blocks, tendencies to control, various compulsions, relationship problems and so on. This book provides the practical skills to deal intelligently with your feelings - and touch and transform all levels of your being. 'Ruskan has achieved a challenging and difficult task, clarifying the interface between Western psychology and Eastern spiritual tradition'

Emotional Clearing

Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness

Susan Chernak McElroy

'In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they never left' says Susan Chernak McElroy, who owes her triumph over cancer to the love of her dog, Keesha - and to the courage she found in the act of saving a dying cat. In ANIMALS AS TEACHERS AND HEALERS, she tells her own story and gathers those from others whose lives have been touched by the transforming power of animals. The stories are arranged into categories including animals as guardians, animals in dreams and visions and animals as soul-menders. ANIMALS AS TEACHERS AND HEALERS is a reminder of the lessons we can learn - and the healing we can receive - from the relationship we have with animals.

Animals As Healers And Teachers

True stories of the transforming power of animals

Marianne Williamson

Drawing on her own experiences and reflections, as well as her interactions with thousands of women across the USA and Europe, A WOMAN'S WORTH gives us Marianne Williamson's unique and very personal view of the feminine spirit. She explores the many facets of contemporary womanhood - family, work, sex, love, power - and investigates the distinctive pattern of women's spiritual and emotional life. She also examines the enduring power of female archetypes, from women healers to women who run with the wolves. Filled with challenging observations and inspiring insights, A WOMAN'S WORTH brilliantly explores the dilemmas women face today.

A Woman's Worth

Francesca Amber

Manifesting transformed Francesca Amber’s life. From being a single mother of three who lost her business during COVID, to a highly successful entrepreneur, author of a Sunday Times bestseller, host of a #1 podcast and the UK’s largest self-development book club. 
 
 
 
This is a workbook for all the time-poor, busy women. With journal prompts, daily to dos, witchy wisdom and manifesting hacks, this will offer ways of integrating all the basics of simple manifesting into your daily practice, with of course an added Francesca Amber twist, including – how to glow up your home environment, uplift your personal style, Feng Shui, energetic spending, Shinto, Paganism, cyclical living and divine feminine energy. 
 
 
All these tools will help you turn your dreams into an abundant reality – with less than 5 minutes of manifesting a day.

Manifest Like a Mother – The Workbook

4-steps to take care of your future self

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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