Aeham Ahmad, born in Damascus in 1988, grew up in Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus. From the age of four onwards his father encouraged his musical talent and at seven he received piano lessons at the Arab Institute in Damascus. He later studied music education in Homs and worked as a music teacher. 
 
In 2015 he was forced to flee to Germany because of the war in Syria. Today he lives with his family in Wiesbaden and gives concerts all over Europe. In December 2015, Ahmad was awarded the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights. 
 
This is his first book.

Aeham Ahmad

Aemilia Lanyer

Aeneas Gunn

Aerosmith

Aeschylus

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island of Samos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came from Thrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part of Greece and Bulgaria. Very little is known about his life except that he worked as a slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famous storyteller. He was so famous that almost any fable which could have been told by him became attributed to him.

Aesop

Afsaneh Knight

Afsaneh Moqadam

Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestseller that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

Afua Hirsch

AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is an author, blogger and international speaker who inspires audiences around the world. She has spoken at many corporations and conferences, such as Nike Women, Starbucks,Time Inc., Virgin, Johnson &amp; Johnson and the American Heart Foundation. She was born in Athens and trained in London at RADA before gaining a Master’s in psychology at the University of Santa Monica. She has collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to develop talks and seminars, and has worked with the Oprah Winfrey network. She is currently hosting a new podcast series in collaboration with The Huffington Post, entitled ‘Sundays with Agapi’, which includes guided meditations and interviews with prominent guests. She lives in Los Angeles.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agatha Christie

Aggie MacKenzie

Aghnia Mardiyah is a London-based Illustrator and Character Designer with a passion for children's books and animation. She is drawn to fun, bright and vibrant colours. When she isn't disappearing under piles of work, she loves to travel! Exploring foreign places, exciting new sights and sensations is what inspires her the most!

Aghnia Mardiyah

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Boston Review, and penned a monthly column for the Point. From 2019 to 2020, she held a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the research that contributes to this book.

Agnes Callard

Agnes Jekyll

Agnes Bertha Marshall (24 August 1855-29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cookery writer, dubbed the 'Queen of Ices'. Her 1888 cookery book included a recipe for 'cornets with cream', possibly the earliest publication of the edible ice cream cone. Marshall was born in Walthamstow. She wrote four books: Ices Plain and Fancy: The Book of Ices (1885), Mrs A B Marshall's Book of Cookery (1888), Mrs A B Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes (1891) and Fancy Ices (1894).

Agnes Marshall

Agnes Prus

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan. His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Litro, 3:AM Magazine, and Asymptote amongst other places. His piece 'Haunted Home' won the 2016 Stack award for best non-fiction for The Outpost, runner-up in the Lifted Brow &amp; RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, and he was longlisted for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Hyper is his first novel.

Agri Ismaïl

Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Médicis étranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.

Aharon Appelfeld

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and human rights activist based in London. He is the co-founder and director of We Are Not Numbers and a journalist with Palestine Deep Dive. Ahmed holds a degree in English Literature from Al-Azhar university in Gaza, and an MA in International Journalism from Leeds University, where he was a Chevening Scholar. 
 
Pam Bailey is a social-justice activist and journalist based in Washington DC. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip following the 2008/9 Israeli assault, and co-founded We Are Not Numbers. Today, in addition to her ongoing dedication to the Palestinian cause, she dedicates herself to two nonprofits that advocate for people detained in American prisons -- including one she co-founded in 2020, called More Than Our Crimes.

Ahmed Alnaouq

Ahmed Errachidi

Ahmed Rashid

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahron Bregman is the author of four books about Israel and the Arabs: The Fifty Years War (with Jihan el Tahri), Israel's Wars, A History of Israel and Elusive Peace. He teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Ahron Bregman

Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.

Ai Qing

Ai Weiwei

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

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Norman Vincent Peale

'This book is produced out of an enthusiastic belief in people and a desire to encourage them to take charge of their lives. If difficulties and problems are ganging up on you and your confidence is shaky, it is hoped that this book may make you realize that you can indeed handle whatever comes and handle it well. ' Norman Vincent Peale from his Letter to the reader. 
 
ITS ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT 
 
Everyone has problems at some point in their lives. They occur every day in business, family and personal life. Sometimes they seem insurmountable, or there are just too many of them for us to feel able to cope. This book will give you hope -and practical strategies to face the future with confidence. You Can If You Think You Can shows you how to develop self-trust and motivation, how to forget fear and build calmness, how to recognise problems as challenges and how to tap all your inner resources to live your life to the full.

You Can If You Think You Can

John Gray

Everybody wants a love that will last forever. . . but for many reasons relationships end. Each year millions of people are widowed, break up with their long-term partner or get divorced. The healing period after such a loss can be difficult, but getting over the grief, anger and pain can be much easier with expert help. In this book, relationship expert and dynamo John Gray offers comfort and empowering advice on how to overcome loss and gain the confidence to meet new people and engage in new relationships. There is hope. For the millions of newly single people in the UK, Mars and Venus Single Again is like a lifeguard at the dating pool.

Mars And Venus Starting Over

A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One.

Christopher Green

Kit Chee

In his typically friendly and clear style, the ever-popular Dr Chris Green, with Dr Kit Chee, explains the treatments and causes of Attention Deficit Disorder, a condition that affects the learning and behaviour of up to 1 in 10 children in this country. 
 
Aimed at parents, teachers and health professionals, this book dispels the myths about ADHD and gives a clear overview of the condition: the causes, the behaviours and the treatments. 
 
Full of well-tried, practical strategies to help with common problems such as inattention, underachievement and impulsiveness, the book covers: 
 
- The causes, how to help improve behaviour at home and at school 
- Making the diagnosis, medication and alternative therapies 
- Hints to help reading, writing and language 
- Ways to boost self-esteem 
- ADHD in adults 
- The latest research and where to go for further help 
 
Understanding ADHD offers invaluable guidance to help parents work with teachers and health professionals to give their child the best possible chance of entering adulthood with self-confidence, life skills and secure family relationships.

Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder

Gray

John Gray has become a publishing phenomenon. His first book, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is still a No 1 New York Times bestseller after 3 years, and is in the UK Top 100 too. He is renowned as THE international relationships guru. John Gray has brought a powerful message to millions of people across the world. He explains how better communication and the recognition of men and women's different emotional needs leads to greater intimacy. 
 
In MARS AND VENUS IN LOVE, all those who embraced his ideas will see them in action in first-person stories told by people who, using his advice and counsel, have created fulfilling, healthy and loving relationships. After the incredible response to his work, Dr Gray thought the success of some couples might inspire others like them. Readers will find hope, encouragement and humour in this collection of experiences, which everyone who has ever had difficulty communicating with the opposite sex will find something to identify with.

Mars And Venus In Love

Inspiring and Heartfelt Stories of Relationships That Work

Mary Pipher

Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before? Mary Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by an unhappy and insecure teenager. 
 
Her view is that for the most part it is our look-obsessed, media-saturated, 'girl-poisoning' culture - and not parents - which is to blame. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet it is often their families that are blamed. 
 
Here, for the first time, are thr girls unmuted voices. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia offers parents compassion, strength and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self.

Reviving Ophelia

Helping You to Understand and Cope With Your Teenage Daughter

This repackaged, retitled version of WHAT YOUR MOTHER COULDN'T TELL YOU AND YOUR FATHER DIDN'T KNOW brings the book firmly into line with John Gary's existing Mars and Venus classics, and has proved immensley successful in the states. This enticing book by America's phenomenally successful relationships guru explains how we can all have exciting, happy and everlasting relationships. In it he reveals: 
 
*what women need most and what men want 
*masculine skills for listening without getting upset 
*feminine skills for talking so a man will listen 
*seven secrets of lasting passion 
*dance steps for lasting intimacy 
 
Brimming with humour, exercises and profound common sense, this book will help to get men and women talking, loving and communicating and will keep loving couples 'together forever'.

Mars And Venus Together Forever

Relationship Skills for Lasting Love

Beve Hornsby

Dyslexia is a common diagnosable condition that is estimated to affect at least one child in ten. In its most usual form it is manifested as a difficulty in learning to read and write, but it is widely misunderstood and often mistaken for low intelligence or even laziness. 
 
Dr Beve Hornsby combines her experience as a psychologist, teacher and speech therapist in this informative and reassuring book for parents and teachers of children suffering from a disability no-one can see or understand, and offers advice on how to identify, tackle and eventually overcome dyslexia. Includes up-to-date information on Attention Deficit Disorder and the relevance of the latest Education Act.

Overcoming Dyslexia

A cross between Deborah Tannen's YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND and a Relate guide, this well-written, accessible book by America's phenomenally successful relationships guru provides essential strategies for maintaining a fulfilled relationship. A generation ago it was common to sacrifice personal fulfilment for the sake of preserving the relationship. Now, with dramatically changed roles for men and women, divorce has become the common 'solution'. Gray maintains neither is the answer and, without resorting to meaningless jargon, pinpoints the seven essential rules for long-lasting monogamy.

What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You And Your Father Didn't Know

A Practical Guide to Improving Communication Between the Sexes

Eli Susman

Find calm, clarity and joy in seconds with micropractice – a revolutionary, science-backed method that can deliver powerful benefits anytime, anywhere. 
 
 How do we care for ourselves when life won’t slow down? This is the question that psychologist Eli Susman spent a decade pursuing the answer to at Harvard and Berkeley as he observed how too many of us think mindfulness, self-compassion and joy are only achieved through lengthy retreats, intensive meditation or hours on the yoga mat. 
 
 Enter micropractice: a term Susman coined for the powerful, bite-size techniques that help us find calm and well-being – right in the middle of modern life’s many demands. In this beautifully illustrated, accessible and highly practical guide, Susman distils ancient wisdom and his own pioneering research into 14 practices anchored in 4 core elements: 
<ul><li>MOVE: Energise instantly with microyoga, a quick power pose or a spontaneous microdance – no mat, dancefloor or skills required.</li><li>TOUCH: Enhance self-compassion, calm anxiety and lower cortisol – through something as simple as petting a cat, resting your hands on your belly and chest or even sharing a fist bump with a friend or colleague.</li><li>BREATHE: Reset your nervous system and release endorphins with intentional breathing exercises, laughter yoga or by singing a few lines of your favourite song.</li><li>FLOW: Infuse ordinary moments with intention, from mindful eating to silently offering lovingkindness to the people you encounter throughout your day.</li></ul> 
Along the way, Susman reveals the science of habit formation so these micropractices don’t just inspire you once – they stick. No elaborate rituals, just research-grounded tools that slip naturally into your day to build emotional resilience, spark creativity, sharpen focus and make well-being a way of being.

Micropractice

A Science-Backed Approach for Calm, Clarity and Joy in 30 Seconds or Less

Michihito Sugawara

Seeing that person's face makes me feel anxious. 
 
I wake up at night and replay the unpleasant conversations I had with them. 
 
Every time someone mentions their name, I immediately want to change the subject. 
 
This is the kind of person who takes up space in your head 24/7 – and refuses to leave. 
 
So why is it so hard to stop thinking about difficult people? 
 
The answer lies within our brain’s survival instinct. When someone triggers anxiety, anger or fear, our mind marks them as a threat, making it impossible to ignore them. 
 
Written by neurosurgeon and neurologist Dr Michihito Sugawara, Delete That Person From Your Brain offers a revolutionary way out: don’t fight your brain’s wiring, retrain it. 
 
Through simple techniques and real-life examples – all rooted in science – you’ll learn how to shift your brain’s focus from negative thoughts and emotions towards what truly matters: personal growth, creativity and happiness.

Delete That Person From Your Brain

Science-based hacks to set you free

Kier Gaines

Have you ever wondered what's stopping you from achieving your dreams? Is it you? 
 
Self-sabotage is a common human trait, and it can be the silent force that derails your goals and aspirations. Did you know that 80% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by February? While an abandoned resolution might seem trivial, chronic self-sabotage can destroy positivity in both your personal and professional life. 
 
In Good Things Are Allowed to Happen, popular therapist Kier Gaines guides you through the transformative process of identifying and overcoming the obstacles that hold you back. Through a blend of practical advice and profound insights, this book empowers you to stop sabotaging your own success and start living life to the fullest. 
 
Good Things Are Allowed to Happen isn't about quick fixes; it's about doing the deep, inner work that leads to lasting change. By embracing self-honesty, you'll learn to recognise how you're getting in your own way, and take actionable steps towards self-acceptance. This book serves as your roadmap to a more fulfilling life, encouraging you to take a long, hard look in the mirror and make the changes necessary to allow good things to happen. 
 
Are you ready to break free from self-sabotage and embrace a life of unlimited potential? Good Things Are Allowed to Happen will help unlock the power of self-honesty and transformation. Your best life is waiting – take the first step today.

It All Starts When You Do

The Transformative Power of Self-Honesty and Radical Self-Acceptance

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

Elle Mace

725,000 people are affected by eating disorders each year in the UK 
Women are more than twice as likely to have an eating disorder than men 
 
With the GLP-1 conversation growing, as access to weight-loss drugs is rolled out more widely, this book is a timely and essential guide to how to build healthy patterns and mental clarity around food.If you are living with constant food noise, Food Freedom will help you find peace from food anxiety, and begin to love and trust your body. For all women living with disordered eating and hoping to finally find a way to break the pattern. 
 
Grounded in positive psychology and Elle Mace’s expertise as a professional qualified Eating Disorders Practitioner, and lived experience of 17 years with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Includes vital contribution to the conversation around GLP-1s, and the urgent need to mindfully approach the integration of medications into the the weight-loss world. 
 
This book offers a clear toolkit to loosen the grip of disordered eating and diet culture, and truly find lasting food freedom. In a world obsessed with numbers – on the scale, in calories, steps or on clothing labels, Food Freedom shifts the focus to what truly matters: developing a healthier mindset, fostering self-acceptance and cultivating a sustainable, fulfilling relationship with food and body.

Food Freedom

How to find peace from food anxiety, and reclaim your body confidence

Nathan Peterson

OCD is one of the most common and debilitating mental disorders and left unchecked, this disease wreaks havoc on lives. But there is an effective treatment. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) involves exposure to OCD triggers in a safe environment for increasingly long durations. And no one knows ERP better than Nathan Peterson. 
 
 The internet’s #1 OCD guide, Nathan has already helped hundreds of thousands of followers regain control over their lives. In this book, he guides readers through effective treatment, then gives them a framework to maintain and build upon the gains they have made. 
 
 Suitable for use both as a companion text that accompanies work with a therapist, or as a stand-in for readers who need inspiration and support, Your OCD Will Hate This Book will be an essential resource for those in their OCD journey.

Your OCD Will Hate This Book

A Proven System to Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Take Back Your Life

Ichiro Kishimi

The inspiring guide to letting go of competition, reducing stress and living a happier, more authentic life – from the 15-million-copy bestselling author of the Japanese self-help phenomenon, The Courage to Be Disliked 
 
Are you exhausted from trying to be exceptional? 
 
Break the Burnout Cycle. Choose Ordinary. 
 
In The Courage to be Ordinary, Ichiro Kishimi speaks to everyone burned out by hustle, comparison and the pressure to prove their worth. His message is disarmingly simple: stop trying to stand out. 
 
Being ordinary isn’t failure – it’s freedom. Freedom from constant competition, from chasing approval, from feeling chronically tense. Letting go of the need to be special will finally give your strengths the space they need to shine. 
 
It’s time to release the pressure and embrace the superpower you really need to succeed: The Power of Ordinary.

The Courage to be Ordinary

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Crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever, Detective Inspector Jack Frost struggles to cope with inadequate back-up and never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up and the vicious killings go on. Frost must cut corners and take risks as he staggers from crisis to crisis, rapists to murderers, missing bodies to discovered body parts; will he be able to keep Denton safe?

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Prepare to be gripped by this prequel series to R.D. Wingfield's A Touch of Frost. 
 
Back in Denton, Detective Sergeant Jack Frost returns to investigating murders, finding missing children, and discovering dead bodies in woodland areas. With Detective Inspector Williams missing, and a new policeman, DS Waters, to mentor, DS Jack Frost has to put the stresses and straings of his personal life on hold in order to keep Denton safe.

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