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The million-copy bestseller now illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, illuminating the fascinating science of our universe like never before. 'A beautiful book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH'The best, most mind-bending sort of physics' THE TIMESThe world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God?How did it all begin?Can we predict the future?What is inside a black hole?Is there other intelligent life in the universe?Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?How do we shape the future?Will we survive on Earth?Should we colonise space?Is time travel possible?Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries.But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of spac

** Winner of the 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION | Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION | Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE and the 2025 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION **''I LOVED this fresh, funny story . . . A true page-turner'' Daily Mail''Addictive, hilarious and relatable'' Miranda July, author of All Fours''[A] gem from Danzy Senna . . . Perceptive and bitingly funny'' Vanity FairJane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane''s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel-a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her "mulatto War and Peace." Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KEVIN BARRYWINNER OF THE BAILEYS'' WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016We all do stupid things when we''re kids.Ryan Cusack''s grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for you.And nobody says Ryan''s stupid. Not even behind his back.It''s the people around him who are the problem. The gangland boss using his dad as a ''cleaner''. The neighbour who says she''s trying to help but maybe wants something more than that. The prostitute searching for the man she never knew she''d miss until he disappeared without trace one night . . .The only one on Ryan''s side is his girlfriend Karine. If he blows that, he''s all alone.But the truth is, you don''t know your own strength till you need it.

For fans of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, discover the irresistibly uplifting Japanese hit novel about cats and the healing power of food.**Contains four mouth-watering recipes**Readers ADORE this book: ''A heart-warming tale with beautiful food descriptions that make your mouth water'' *****''Beautifully written. I was consistently moved throughout the whole book'' *****''It was like an escape from the chaotic world. True healing fiction'' *****''A refreshing way to look at grief and how to remember a loved one'' *****''Such a charming and heart-warming book. I wanted it to go on for longer. I loved the recipes at the end of each chapter. I laughed, smiled and most definitely cried'' *****Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells leads to the Chibineko Kitchen. Chibi, the restaurant cat, will meet you at the door.These are the directions Kotoko follows to find the tiny restaurant

On the 250th anniversary of America''s founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era.The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed.We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitut

For fans of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, discover the second book in the irresistibly uplifting Japanese hit series about cats and the healing power of food.**Contains four mouth-watering recipes**The Chibineko Kitchen is no ordinary restaurant: the food can bring someone you''ve lost back to you, for one last time. It''s been months since Kotoko first visited the tiny restaurant by the sea. Now she works there, alongside the chef Kai and his mischievous kitten Chibi. One sunny morning, the restaurant opens its doors to Nagi, a young woman facing an impossible choice. Should she marry her boyfriend, despite knowing she only has a few years left to live, or protect him from pain by refusing? She is desparate for advice from the one person no longer around to give it - her mother. Next to visit are an anxious man rebuilding his life after shutting himself away for years, a lonely widow unaware that she is surrounded by friends, and an actor

''Powerful, absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking'' SINCLAIR MCKAYA radical new history of history''s most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.In popular memory, World War II was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, and democratic order over the age of empires. Scorched Earth dispatches the myth of World War II as a ''good'' war. Instead, it reveals the conflict as a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe. The war was sparked by German and Japanese invasions that threatened the old powers'' dominance, not by Allied opposition to fascism. The Allies achieved victory not through pluck and democratic idealism but through savage firebombing raids on civilian targets and the slaughter of millions of Soviet soldiers. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as hyper-militarized new imperial powers, each laying claim to former Axis holdings across the globe before tur

一段令人心碎又無法自拔的愛情故事，一場秘密戀情，最終卻成為眾所皆知的醜聞。加百列的歸來撼動了整個小鎮，也撕裂了貝絲平靜的生活。十年前，那個夏天，年僅十七歲的她與加百列墜入愛河，以為那是命中注定的開始；然而，他的離開令她徹底崩潰。最終是法蘭克拾起她破碎的心，給她一個穩定的家與一個可愛的兒子。如今，加百列突然重現，往日的激情再次點燃。面對丈夫、家庭與舊情，她必須做出痛苦的選擇。這是一部糾纏愛情與罪惡、忠誠與背叛的小說，如詩如歌，情感濃烈，扣人心弦。IT WAS A SECRET AFFAIR. UNTIL IT WAS A PUBLIC SCANDAL.'Lyrical, brutal and passionate. I devoured it'MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace'Evocative, sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark'DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Broke my heart then mended it again. An epic, tortured love story. Bring tissues'JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things'A love story like no other'CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the DarkEveryone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right.Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think a

SPECIAL UPDATED 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSICWHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. 'Randall Munroe is nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Brilliant' ROLLING STONE'Smart answers to silly questions: Munroe reveals all' GUARDIAN'Required reading' NEW YORK TIMESRandall Munroe is the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com.His readers ask him a lot of strange questions: What would happen if absolutely everyone jumped at the same time? How could we build a Lego bridge between London and New York?What if my DNA vanished?How long could a submarine last in space?What are the odds of meeting my soulmate?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults everyone from astronauts to nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the comple

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A 'Book of the Year' in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Sunday Express, TLS, Irish Times*'Pure class' Ian Rankin 'Pitch-perfect' Lee Child'A powerful standalone spy thriller from a true contemporary master' Daily TelegraphTrying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid of the stink of dead badger. Hard. For two years the government's Monochrome inquiry has produced nothing more than a series of dead ends.The Service has kept what happened in the newly reunified Berlin under wraps for decades, and intends for it to stay that way. But then the OTIS file turns up. What classified secrets does it hold? And what damage will it create?All Max Janácek knows is that someone is chasing him through the pitch-dark country lanes and they want him gone.WE ALL HAVE JOBS TO DO IN THE DAYLIGHT. IT'S WHAT YOU DO IN THE SECRET HOURS THAT REVEALS WHO YOU REALLY ARE. 'Wonderful .. . high action, a spinning m

'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday TelegraphWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story.Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, memoir and a history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large.The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China and redress their great trade imbalance, and