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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 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Marie Louise

Feeling worried about giving birth? Don’t worry – expert midwife and bestselling pregnancy author Marie Louise has you covered. 
 
Evidence-based and grounded in Marie’s 13 years of experience as a midwife at countless births, this essential book offers you practical tools and advice to help you feel relaxed and prepared for your birthing journey. This book covers everything you could possibly need to know, including:<ul><li>How to support your changing body</li><li>Different types of birth and stages of labour, including methods of pain relief</li><li>What your birthing partner needs to know</li><li>The law and knowing your rights</li><li>How to create a birth plan that works for you</li><li>Managing your fears and practicing effective self-care</li><li>What to expect when you meet your new baby</li></ul> 
Written with Marie’s signature warmth and positivity, this book is a warm hug for any expectant parent, and a calming companion to help you feel informed, empowered and in control.

The Modern Midwife's Guide to Birthing Your Baby

Billy Garvey

10 Things to Know About Raising Boys

Christina Tortolani

Renee D. Rienecke

Melissa Freizinger

Take back control of your eating disorder with this practical, science-backed workbook written by world-leading experts. 
 
When you’re struggling with an eating disorder, it can be hard to imagine that recovery is possible. You are likely to be disconnected from your friends and family, burdened with strict rules to follow and overtaken with negative thoughts and feelings. This book is here to help you fight back. 
 
Drs Tortolani, Rienecke and Freizinger have developed a unique programme that has empowered thousands of people make a full recovery. And in this book, for the first time, they will share their unique step-by-step-plan so you can benefit from this life-changing treatment too. 
 
Inside you’ll find: 
 <ul><li>Journal and art prompts to help you reflect and learn</li><li>Inspiring stories from others who have struggled with similar challenges</li><li>Engaging exercises to help you practice new behaviours and ways of thinking</li></ul> 
With this book by your side, you’ll have everything you need to take your life back, re-connect with yourself and disobey your eating disorder once and for all.

Disobey

Finding Freedom from your Eating Disorder

Emma Storey Gordon

The Fat Loss Coach For Women

Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Feel Incredible

Pete Wharmby

If you have an autistic child, you will be painfully aware of the challenges they face in education. Beyond the headlines on SEN provision are real children who struggle from day-to-day – how can we help them? 
 
In Different Minds, neurodivergence campaigner and former teacher Pete Wharmby shines a light on what it’s like to be autistic in Western school systems today, so that we can understand how to support our children through the most important years of their lives. Through a blend of story-telling, polemic and empathetic advice, Wharmby exposes the inadequacies of the current system, explains how differences have been mislabelled as ‘challenging behaviour’ and provides a blueprint for understanding and supporting young autistic minds. 
 
Galvanising and compassionate, this important book empowers parents, teachers and carers to take a stand against the vilification of our autistic school children and provide the scaffolding they need to thrive.

Different Minds

How We Can Help Our Autistic School Children Thrive

Sally Wilkinson

Ditch the guilt and step into a more confident, healthier you. 
 
Sally Wilkinson has already helped thousands of women change their mindset, feel their best ever and lose weight without going on a diet. The secret? Self-belief. Everyone is capable of change, they just have to believe they can do it. 
 
Through Sally’s much-loved straight-talking, humorous and compassionate approach, The Shit To Shiny Method introduces readers to a whole new way of thinking that empowers them to let go of guilt, lose the ‘all or nothing’ mindset and want to make positive choices. 
 
There are no complicated and unrealistic food and exercise plans here, just inspirational advice from someone who knows exactly what it takes to stop punishing yourself, step off the diet wagon and take back your power.

The Sh*t to Shiny Method

Ditch the Diet, Let Go of Guilt, Find Your Power

Angela Duckworth

‘If you read one book this year to level up your life, make it this one’ MEL ROBBINS 
 
'For anyone who feels stuck, this book offers a path to something new' CAROL DWECK 
 
From the #1 bestselling author of Grit, a new book that reveals the hidden power of situations - and how you can shape them to bring out your best. 
 
In Angela Duckworth’s first book, she showed that a common denominator of successful strivers is a blend of passion and perseverance she dubbed 'grit.' This new book springs from her deepening realization that grit, while necessary, is sometimes not sufficient. How you situate yourself to meet a challenge can be crucial. 
 
Duckworth’s in-depth research reveals the enormous influence wielded by the objects within arm’s reach, your peers and mentors, and even where you live. Though you’re often told to make the best of your situation, it is far, far better to make your situation better first.In Situated, you’ll discover: 
<ul><li>Why your personality changes, sometimes dramatically, from one situation to another – and how you can harness that shift</li><li>The secret to conquering temptation without willpower</li><li>Why taking the less effortful path can feel like cheating but often solves a stubborn problem</li><li>How the company you keep shapes the person you become</li><li>The most effective ways to help others succeed</li></ul> 
Highlighting four essential elements of successful situations, Duckworth shows how high performers like Taylor Swift, Michael Phelps and Jerry Seinfeld create situations that make the most of their grit. And with disarming honesty, she shares her own struggles with burnout and marriage – and how learning to change her situation, not herself, made all the difference. 
 
Whatever it is you want to achieve, there’s a situation that can make your journey easier. 
 
It takes effort to make your situation your ally – but a little effort goes a long way ... when you get situated.

Situated

Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best

Lisa Galley

Permission to parent your child the way they need you to 
 
In Parenting Your Autistic Child, parenting expert and SEN mum Lisa Galley offers a lifeline for parents raising autistic children. Parents who are exhausted by advice that doesn’t work, and the constant guilt of getting it ‘wrong’. It lifts the lid on the brain-body link, helping parents understand what’s happening inside their child’s nervous system in everyday moments like meltdowns, transitions, stimming, bedtime, or screen time – and why traditional strategies fail to take this into account. 
 
This isn’t a book full of theory and behaviour charts. It’s about real life: the 3:30pm meltdown, the refusal to get dressed, the soul-destroying school run. It shows parents exactly what’s going on in their child’s brain and body during those moments, and helps parents to understand why the normal ‘rules’ of parenting just aren’t working. 
 
With gentle science, practical tools, and deep validation, Parenting Your Autistic Child doesn’t just explain the ‘why’, it shows parents how to parent confidently, differently, and without shame.

Parenting Your Autistic Child

Permission to Do it Differently

Michelle Griffin

Fibroids is a health condition that may impact up to 80% of women under 50 in the UK, with a higher proportion of sufferers being Black women – which may be one of the systemic reasons why this condition exists under the radar. 
 
Symptoms can be life-impacting and debilitating, and can even affect fertility. Often women feel completely at a loss, even after diagnosis the pathway ahead isn’t clear. NHS waiting lists remain long – gynaecology services remain the worst affected post-pandemic – and the availability of treatment is inconsistent across the country. 
 
Dr Michelle Griffin offers a clear and practical pathway from the time you suspect you have a fibroid, to diagnosis and beyond. Including checklists for what to ask your GP, to the different treatments that you might be offered, this book will offer you a clear plan of action, to give you the confidence to find solutions. 
 
Vermilion Empowered is a women's health expert series offering a practical, coherent guides to what action to take when facing various women's health challenges. Modern, straight-talking, expert guides which offers you everything they need to know to take action to protect your health and wellbeing now, and into the future.

Fibroids

Everything you need to know, from symptoms to diagnosis and beyond

Lisa Lloyd

So now it all makes sense. I am to blame for the ’tisms in this household, and the poor hubby is just stuck here in the middle of all of us, with our meltdowns, masking and madness. Once you know, it all starts to add up ... 
 
Like any new parent, when Lisa Lloyd became a mum, her own needs were put at the bottom of a very long list. But for Lisa, adapting to her new life felt almost impossible. The sensory overload, the upheaval, the lack of personal space – how did anyone do it? What she didn’t know was that this was the start of a journey that would lead to her finally discovering who she really is. 
 
In Unmasking Mum, Lisa shares the story of her autism diagnosis at age 41 to shine a light on the challenges of neurodivergent parenting. From autistic burnout, to being the ‘odd mum out’ and managing all the meltdowns (your own, as well as the kids’) – if you too are a parent with autism or ADHD, this candid guide and memoir will help you make sense of the rollercoaster ride we call ‘parenting’. 
 
With honesty, humour and useful tips along the way, Lisa is pulling off the mask. It’s stuck quite hard, but bit-by-bit, it’s peeling away, revealing the real Lisa who has been hiding all along.

Unmasking Mum

A Very Honest Guide to Life as a Neurodivergent Parent

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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.

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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.

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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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