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Modern Manglish explores the traditional linguistic traps of mixed metaphors and mispronunciation, new words and old cliches, and euphemisms, tautologies, and jargon. It also exposes the latest Manglish in serially offending professions such as politics, business, and the law.

HISTORY / General

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Disarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy's poems make ordinary experiences glow.

Part psychological thriller, part intellectual puzzle, this novel plays on some of humankind's most profound archetypes and fables, all the while lulling the reader with the brilliance of its voice.

Trade paperback. A well-informed account of the background and psychology of the Tsarnaev brothers, the alleged perpetrators of the Boston marathon bombings, and of the new breed of terrorist they represent.

When Ludwig Unger returns to his hometown after a decade, he arrives with a plastic bag filled with his mother's ashes and little else. He was there to make amends with his lonely past, to say good-bye to the familial ghosts that still haunted him.

After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he's paralysed and mute. Confined to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life in which he must rely on others to complete even the simplest tasks for him.

Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong.

Features an array of cocktails and food inspired by the Bard, from 'Exit Pursued by a Beer' to 'Get Thee To A Winery'. The authors are professors and Shakespeare scholars, whose work has appeared in "The New York Times".

A Spanish psychological thriller that asks big questions.

A tense and compelling debut novel, set to tie in with a major film release from the award-winning director of "Lore". 'An impressive debut' "Vogue Australia

The power and peril of transparency in medicine. From one of the world's leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care comes this unclothing of the medical profession to demonstrate manr revelations, such as the paradox at the heart of the cardiac surgeon's craft: the more an operation is likely to kill you, the better it is for you.

A family therapist spends her days counselling others on their relationships while she loses control of her own. For readers of Anne Tyler and Joan Didion.

FICTION / General

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why addiction is not a disease, but rather the formation of a habit.

What comfort can an agnostic give people who are suffering or dying? A frank, moving and sometimes funny record encounters in a cancer ward.

A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before, and asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? And can Israel survive? Through re...

Highly readable and provocative, with an original and compelling theory of what causes obesity.  Provides specific, practical guidelines for maintainable weight loss.  Author is Canadian medical practitioner who has immense credibility in treating type-2 diabetes and obesity successfully.

Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions. In Gut, Giulia Enders breaks this taboo, revealing the latest science on how much our digestive system has to offer. A "Sunday Times" bestseller, now in paperback.