What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie f
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and
Junior creative Tim Callaghan can hardly believe his luck when he's flown out to Dubai to supervise the filming of an advert for an international charity. He is immediately entranced by the city - a f
An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother. A mysterious woman seeks five fathers for her
In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new
Claire Flannery has quit her job in order to discover her true vocation - only to realize she has no idea how to go about finding it. Whilst everyone around her seems to have their lives entirely unde
Yvvette Edwards' second novel, The Mother, tells Marcia's story. Today, Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey. She's going there to do something no mother should ever have to do: to attend the trial of
The New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup shows us how to enjoy greater career success and personal fulfilment by finding the work we were born to do, whether within a traditional comp
It's hard enough to become the best in the world at anything. It's even harder when people want to kill you just for trying. Mary Carillo - NBC Sports Maria Toorpakai has lived her life disguised as a
When I wasn't reading Sharon Guskin's The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it' Jodi Picoult Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is he's already home. Janie's son is her worl
A tightly plotted crime thriller with surprise twists at every turn and a story that reads as though its ripped from the headlines ...Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed hone
The animals are having a VERY noisy time on the farm in this fantastic sound book from the renowned illustrator, Axel Scheffler. With six sound buttons to press, lots to spot on every page and fun act
From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century, this global journey through human history is the companion volume to a Discovery Channel/BBC coproduced series, like Life and Planet Earth Our und
Essential reading for every couple who wants to ensure the healthiest possible conception and pregnancy Written by a complementary fertility specialist, this book draws upon Emma Cannon's years of exp
Join Lucy on a delicately illustrated magical journey through an unforgettable alphabet When Lucy goes to market she finds everything she needs, from an asparagus angel and a delicate dragon to an inv
A wonderfully yucky touch-and-feel book with a spectacularly smelly scratch-and-sniff ending! Readers will need to be very brave to enter the strange world of these weird and wonderful trolls. With th
John Scalzi returns with Head On, a chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural. Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future w
One civilization lies in ruins, but will they be next? Katya is a scientist, working on a top secret project for the Russian Empire. She's also desperate. Due to her classified knowledge of alternativ
He walks into the living room and June is dead. He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter. He'll ask himself later, if he knew. It's easy to say that he had acted without thi
Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines of her upper-crust English life - and rather dull boyfriend - and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in the worl
To save her twin, she must take her identity One night Tila stumbles home, terrified and covered in blood. She's then arrested for murder, the first by a civilian in decades. The San Francisco police
Eleanor Morgan's first-person account of her own struggles with anxiety was published as part of 'The Vice Guide to Mental Health' and was read by five million people across fifteen countries within f
An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life—to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the secon
Elizaveta is princess of Kiev, but that doesn't stop her chasing adventure. Defying conventions, she rides the rapids of the Dneiper alongside her royal brothers, and longs to rule in her own right as
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on ove
Nearly 70 per cent of employees in the UK aren't performing at their full potential. At the roots of this problem are the policies and systems built to 'manage' these employees, which were designed fo
From the international bestselling author of Talk Like TED, The Storyteller's Secret teaches you how to craft your most powerful message - through the power of storytelling.
As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get
The wonderfully wintry tale of two adventurous little fox cubs and their first snowfall, from the team behind Ruby in Her Own Time When Mother Fox goes out to look for food she leaves her fox cubs, A
A beautifully illustrated tale of a Venetian masked ball, and a mouse who slips in uninvited—how will the feline guests react to the intruder? In the deepest, darkest corner of Venice a lonely mouse c
One love-lorn frog and some very mixed-up spells!A hopeful little frog tries to turn himself into a handsome prince by piecing together the torn pages of a spell book. There’s just one problem – altho
Everyone's afraid of something . . .Young children will identify with the little mouse who uses the pages of this book to document his fears – from loud noises and the dark, to being sucked down the p
After her long-term relationship ends, Manda finds solace in bird-watching?a hobby her ex introduced her to and which she has embraced for its quiet beauty. The birds provide Manda with an escape from
