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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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

The clock is ticking.To save her life you must take another.When Jack Morgan is invited to the luxurious Monaco coast to set up a new Private office, it seems like the perfect opportunity to relax in an iconic destination.But the vacation is quickly cut short when Jack's partner Justine is abducted.The kidnappers send Jack clear instructions - and a gun. If he wants to see the woman he loves again, he must take a life in exchange for hers.Jack...

In the beautiful lavender fields of Provence, harvest season ¿ the busiest time of the year ¿ is about to start. Del is looking forward to a new group of pickers arriving from all over the world to help out at her little lavender farm. But just as they¿re due to appear, some bad news turns her world upside down.Then Del¿s partner Fabien is given the chance to rejoin his old band for one last tour ¿ and Del wants him to seize the day. But is se...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation'Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him' Ai Weiwei'Fills the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh out loud' Jung Chang, author of Wild SwansTwenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreamin...

What happened to Lara?Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lara spends the summer on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík.In early August, the girl disappears without a trace.The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?Thirty years later, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into La...

PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK NOW AND DISCOVER THE SIX SECRETS TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS AT ANY AGE FROM THE 102-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO KNOWS BETTER THAN ANYONE'Astonishing. Contains so many lightbulb moments it could power the national grid. Truly one of the most inspirational women you'll ever meet' ELIZABETH DAY, How To Fail podcast'You will love the stories, you will learn how to honour your health and your body, and in the end, you'll love life that ...

Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live'There is a question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact, has to keep on asking and keep on answering. It is, 'How should I live my life?' meaning, 'What values shall I live by? '...

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex...

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex...

This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of Korea's vibrant short-story tradition.Here are peddlers and ...

We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise - and more peril - than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that have powered global wealth creation now threaten to destroy the world they helped build. Automation and digitization promise prosperity for some, unemployment for others. Financial crises fuel growing inequality, polarization and the retreat of demo...

One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed.C...