In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference

An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 178

\'Just incredible\' Naomi Klein \'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller\' The Times A New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

This stunning paperback box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collins\'s internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SISTERSONG\'Lucy Holland\'s lyrical prose and powerful storytelling will lure you in\' Jennifer Saint, author of AriadneA must-read for fans of Circe, Song of the Huntress recasts the folklore behind the Wild Hunt into a dark, feminist fantasy set amidst the legends and beauty of ancient Britain.Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, land and her people from the Romans,

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, \'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.\' -O, the Oprah magazineCross the threshold of these seven empty houses and enter the dark, destabilising world of Samanta Schweblin. Here, homes are not a place

\'A heroine with a generous spirit, an unshakable will and a dragon\'s fury.\' H. M. LongHaving grown up hearing tales of her uncle, the great King Beowulf, Fryda\'s one desire is to become a shield maiden in her own right. Yet a terrible childhood accident has left Fryda disabled - thus, she believes, thwarting her dream of becoming a warrior-woman for good.

Available to pre-order! The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV\'s smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss. Bridge\'s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.

*Soon to be a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends.

A Financial Times Book of the Year. Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it.

Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self-immolation. Organized crime sits side-by-side with the occult in Buenos Aires - a place where reality and the preternatural fuse into strange, new shapes.

For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top. \'Who better qualified to delve into this topic?\' Business Life Women make up less than 10 per cent of national leaders.

\'A brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still so underestimated and overlooked in today\'s world, but how we can also be hopeful for change\' - Philippa Perry \'Hugely exciting\' - Emily Maitlis Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by women. Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them.

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai\'s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo\'s attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a clown to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt

\'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?\' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating.

\'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins.

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\'A suspenseful story of obsession against the tense political backdrop of Germany\'s Bauhaus art school\' - Sunday Times In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England\'s visit. \'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.\' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed.

\'Read this book. Don\'t put it off until you\'ll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading.