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With an introduction by Rory Stewart In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi mi

With an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japane

With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for

With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee. In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's

The debut collection of short fiction from science fiction legend Ted Chiang, including the inspiration for the Oscar-winning filmArrival.‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ –The GuardianWithStories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories.The title novella 'Story of Your Life' was the basis for the Academy Award-winning filmArrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s unique imagination invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.‘United by a humane intell

Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adult

這本書是作者Adam Kay 的親身經歷，記錄了他在英國國家醫療服務體系 (NHS) 擔任婦產科住院醫師時的日記 。他以一種極其幽默、尖銳且時而令人心碎的方式，揭露了醫生這個職業不為人知的一面 。書中充滿了各種令人捧腹大笑的荒謬日常，例如：處理病人塞進體內的各種奇葩物品、應對高壓高工時下扭曲的心態（像是聽到病人威脅要打斷他的腿時，第一個念頭竟是「太好了可以休假了」） 。然而，在這些爆笑故事的背後，卻是血淋淋的現實：每週工作97小時、薪資微薄、永無止盡的瘋狂白晝與睡眠不足的夜晚，以及那些永遠失蹤的週末假期 。​這本書不僅僅是一本搞笑的醫生日記，它更深刻地揭示了醫療體系前線人員所面臨的巨大壓力、官僚體制的荒謬，以及那些在生死一線間的驚恐與心碎時刻 。書名《This is Going to Hurt》不僅是醫生對病人說的話，也像是作者對讀者打的一劑預防針——在爆笑之後，隨之而來的是對醫療人員處境的深刻反思與不捨 。Read by the author, Adam Kay.The multi-million copy bestsellerBook of the Year at The National Book Awards‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front

Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather together the piece

Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts, and more...'People are emotionally drawn to the supernatural. They activel

A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains

《The Island of the Colour-blind》記錄了薩克斯前往太平洋島嶼的旅程，他探訪平加拉普島上遺傳性色盲的族群，並走訪關島，研究當地流傳百年的奇異癱瘓症。從島嶼植物到人類疾病，他以溫和又富觀察力的文字，引領讀者思考演化、環境與人類身體間微妙的聯繫。'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – Sunday TimesAlways fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees – and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical in The Island of the Colour-Blind.

With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to s

With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority ...France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and w

With an introduction by Kate Mosse Translated by Ros Schwartz All grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten). A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordin

This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters’ The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep. ‘It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific sce

Part of the Picador Classic series with an introduction from Paul Theroux.

With an introduction by Alan Moore It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the bla

With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy

With an introduction by Rachel Kushner He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. It's a vast and sprawling crowd that comes together to watch the Dodger

With an introduction by Stuart Evers So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri with

With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were c

With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with tot

With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recoun

With an introduction by Sadie Jones One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual request from the War Office: he must leave his quiet life and travel to the jungles

With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane One winter, after an enforced period of recuperation, William Fiennes finds himself restless and yearning for adventure. He travels to Texas, where he begins

With an introduction by Russell Brand What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists – Islamic fundament

With an introduction by John Burnside Tom Crick is a passionate teacher, but before he is forced into retirement by scandal, he has one last history lesson to deliver: his own. Spanning more than 200

With an introduction by P J O'Rourke In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trous

With an introduction by John Hurt A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore are me

With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, The South is award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in

With an introduction by Anne Enright Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond. How you see a country depends on whether you are driving throu

With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowl

With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more

With an introduction by Caitlin Moran A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-som

With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity

With an introduction by Peter Carey I suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something be

With an introduction by Steve Martin Two pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker tha

With an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. In 1970s London Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the

With an introduction by Salman Rushdie It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited

With an introduction by Martin Scorsese Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the