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Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of libe...

[A] captivating and dramatic account. . . Drawn from letters and diaries, Holland¿s immersive narrative is told through the eye-level perspectives of dozens of subjects. Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly`Tells the story of the hard, bloody, muddy fighting that filled the rest of 1943¿ this excellent book reinforces Holland¿s reputation as the busiest and most popular military historian of the second world war working today¿ Spectat...

The new Andrew Hunter Murray read is here ... Featuring crooked houses, dodgy coppers and a lot of lockpicking, A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering is a gripping thriller about what it's like to be young, skilled, unemployed - and on the run.__________Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder.My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away.I don't rob them, I don't damage anything...

A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scienti...

The mysterious stranger seems perfect. But nobody knows who she is and what she has been compelled to do to survive. The gripping new bestseller from Tony Parsons.`Vividly drawn and utterly engrossing¿ Tom Hindle'Gripping and beautifully written, with atmosphere you could cut with a knife' Alex Michaelides'A cracking story ... keeps you hooked to the last page.' Heidi Perks`¿an intriguing Du Maurier-ish Cornwall mystery¿ a story of twists and ...

CASSIE IS NOT A PEOPLE PERSON. BUT SHE IS ABOUT TO WIN YOUR HEART. . . As featured on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 2 Book Club, The Times & Daily Mail Cassie has never really fitted in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing.So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local café runs out of banana muffins - all in one day - it feels like the end of the world.But then Cassie discovers she has the power to go ...

The new novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage, available to pre-order now! 'Her best yet! Beautifully written with characters that jumped off the page and a clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word' Claire Douglas, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girls Who DisappearedNotting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return ...

PERFECT FOR FANS OF KATE QUINN'S THE ROSE CODE, THIS GRIPPING NOVEL OF COURAGE AND LOYALTY BRINGS THE UNSUNG TRUE STORY OF WW2'S GREATEST HEROINE HANNIE SCHAFT TO LIFE'Inspiring, empowering, and timely, compellingly detailed and impressively researched, but better still, it's an immersive story of a terrifying warren of history through which our guide is the sort of hero we all need right now: relatable and resolute and absolutely right' Lauri...

The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' MARIAN KEYES * 'A time-bending gem about the way we live now' GABRIELLE ZEVIN * 'Brilliant, hilarious, surprising and wise. I devoured it' NAOMI ALDERMANYou wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at onceOne night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from photos to electricity bills - suggests he's right.Lauren's attic, she slowly real...

THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'The Other Tenant will take up residence in your mind from the very first page. A cleverly plotted thriller. I raced through it!'Holly Seddon, internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Bridge'DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE'Marlow has always lived in unusual places. But when she accepts a position as a live-in property guardian, she finds herself moving somewhere she swore ...

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Comb through beaches for fossils and dive into rock pools in this fun, informative guide to the beauties found along and around seashores.Ever wondered which fossils you may find in the sand at the beach or why they have flags at the beach?This book takes a closer look at sights you can see along and under the shores such as lighthouses, sandcastles, sea sports and the creatures found in rock pools.Want more? Follow the changing seasons with t...

For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger built a tea...

A Year in a Small Garden follows Frances Tophill as she creates her new garden in a terraced house in Devon. Working in a small space, the book documents her journey to bring life to her garden, including tips and tricks for you to achieve similar results in whatever spaces you have at home.The book is structured around the stages of building her small garden, and branches out to include small community gardens Frances works with, as well as p...

FATE CAN BE CHANGED.CURSES CAN BE BROKEN.In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers her scullion is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to win over the royal court.Determined to seize this chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of power-hungry nobility, desperate kings, h...

Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his home life with his job as a hitman.Picture a mantis raising up its blades. It looks fearsome, but it's still just a tiny insect. The mantis actually thinks it can win. Even though it's tiny, it's still ready to fight to the death.Kabuto is an ordinary guy, stressed with work, hassled by his...

`A masterpiece! A must-read book that is both a delight to consume and sure to improve the quality of your thinking¿ - Katy Milkman, author of How to Change'Not only brilliantly researched and written but immensely practical' - Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at the Bank of EnglandA ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive and interpret informationOur lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories,...

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. H...

Three. Two. One...Romance? Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to be evicted. The last thing she needed was to run into her ex and his new girlfriend at her favourite coffee shop. Panicked, Amerie pretends to be dating the annoyingly sexy man she met. He plays along - for a price.Half the single men in Houston claim to be astronauts, but Vincent Rogers turns out to be the real deal. What started as a one-off lie morphs into a plan...

In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence' Steve BrusatteWhat if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were?For over a century we saw them...