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A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami’s classic short story. Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It was powerfully built, standing over six feet tall on its hind legs.A skinny little man no more than five foot three, Katagiri was overwhelmed by the frog's imposing bulk. ‘Call me “Frog,”’ said the frog in a clear, strong voice. Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this special edition of Murakami’s celebrated short story sees the bewildered Katagiri find meaning in his humdrum life through joining forces with Frog in an effort to save Tokyo from an existential threat.‘No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades’ Financial Times‘A master storyteller’ Sunday Times

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND.'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King‘Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful’ The TimesEnter a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Fan-favourite female stars Loretta Thurwar and Hamara ‘Hurricane Staxxx’ Stacker are teammates and lovers.Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. But as protestors clash with the baying crowds and the programme’s corporate owners stack the odds against her – will the price be simply too high?‘So compelling – right up to the final, fatal blow’ Sunday Telegraph‘Vividly imaginative and startling’ Elle‘The new maestro of dystopian lit’ Wired

德國新浪潮名導韋納荷索放下導演筒，以書寫刻畫藏身盧邦島叢林多年，不願相信二戰已然結束的日軍小野田寬郎的無數個日子。從與同袍死守到僅剩自己頑抗，藉小野田生前受荷索專訪的紀錄，半重現半想像地描繪出被自己禁錮於這場荒誕幻夢中的年輕軍人，叢林裡的29年長夜。Hold the island until the Imperial army's return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs... There is only one rule:You are forbidden to die by your own hand.In the event of your capture by the enemy, you are to give them all the misleading information you can.In 1944, on Lubang Island in the Philippines, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer. So began Onoda's long campaign, during which he became fluent in the hidden language of the jungle. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades - until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making. The Twilight World im

This riotously colourful book takes a photographic journey through Queen Elizabeth II's ten decades of colour-blocked style. The photographs, which span the colours of the rainbow and a century of s

A hypnotic and haunting novel of motherhood, loss, and the invisible ties that bind us together, from Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy JohnsonA hypnotic and haunting story of longing and survival, losing yourself and finding your family'Daisy Johnson's best novel... a multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, and love' Jeff VanderMeer'Astonishingly beautiful' Kaliane BradleyClose to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip on reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel, opening up a path to the mother she lost, and the mother she could become.Years earlier, on a sweltering summer day, ten-year-old Ruth sees a woman and her baby walk into the river and

The heartwarming, magical Japanese bestseller about grief, love and a cat who will do anything to see his beloved owner againThe heartwarming Japanese bestseller about grief, love and a cat who will do anything to see his beloved owner again'A much-needed dose of comfort and positivity' SHANNA TANAfter a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. But he is not as far from his owner Michiru as it seems. Sometimes the divide between the lands of the living and the dead can be traversed.Eager to see Michiru again, Fuuta interviews for a position at Café Pont, which sits in the liminal space between the two worlds. The café is known for its unique service: its living customers can request meetings with the person they'd most like to see again, through the specially selected spirits of messenger cats.Fuuta must investigate and deliver his messages without unnerving the living, or worse, upsetting the balance of the universe itself. It is a

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too.Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked and hidden for years.And when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key, she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine... This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production.Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

From the revered graphic artist and writer Anders Nilsen, Tongues collects together in one volume for the first time Nilsen's cult comics and their retelling of the myth of Prometheus'Mindbendingly good. It’s up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan'MARK HADDON, author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIMEIn the remotest reaches of Central Asia where rival groups war over oil, a minor god is chained to a mountainside. Unfolding in a series of conversations with his unlikely friend the eagle, who visits every day to carry out a gruesome sentence of torture, Tongues I follows the titan’s pursuit of revenge on the god that imprisoned him.Entwined with their story are those of Astrid, a teenage East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a man with a teddy bear strapped to his back wandering aimlessly in the wilderness. Tongues I is a postmodern, apocalyptic reimagining of Prometheus' story, here a fallible god failing in his duty as the creator and prote

From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**'A masterpiece, told with virtuosic economy… Pure brilliance from the first to the (devastating) last sentence’ India Knight'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey'Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn't f**k around' Gary Stevenson‘So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David NichollsThrough chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our livesFifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. As these encount

‘Tense, chilling’ MARIANA ENRIQUEZ'Lays bare intergenerational horror, feminine rage and the taking back of power' STYLIST'Incredible' FINANCIAL TIMESThe house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes.Nobody ever leaves. The house was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can’t leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy from a local wealthy family draws unwanted press attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.Layla Martínez’s eerie debut novel Woodworm is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott*

How else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good partIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. Vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicentre of the break.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and f

'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written – as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER"Very funny and self-hating in a good way" ZADIE SMITHFrom her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?But how can she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread?In this hilariously skewering comic novel, Alison is existentially pained by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war. Her first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, Death and Taxidermy. It’s a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group.As the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy, Alison’s own envy spirals. Surely writing her own wildly popular reality TV series wouldn’t be that hard? One that shows people how

SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation, now available in a beautiful hardback gift edition. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits.Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.The woman who will never know men. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CUREDiscover the reader obsession. **Orlanda, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**

An award-winning and dazzling Danish novel, the first in the groundbreaking Scandinavian Star series, that explores love, betrayal and capitalism – for readers of Deborah Levy and Tove DitlevsenA groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism’s effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature'Buzzes with electricity… intriguing, maddening, exciting. I’m in’ Observer'Taut and intelligent… a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary ReviewMaggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was

The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.STEP INTO THE CITY. . .When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose.A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.'A

85 recipes for transforming sweet and savoury doughs into delicious main meals and desserts.'A truly stunning book, perfect for anyone looking to level up their skills at home!' Matt Adlard 'A wonderful world of culinary delights' Paula SuttonIn her first cookbook, full of beautiful photography, social media star and baker Betül Tunç of Turkuaz Kitchen immerses us into her magical world of baking.With warm, achievable, and inspiring recipes, Turkuaz Kitchen invites readers into the kitchen to immerse themselves in the mindful act of baking and create their own food memories with those they cherish most. This is a treasure trove of 85 comforting recipes such as:Sweet: Pumpkin Scones, Apple Pie with Easy Vanilla Mascarpone Ice Cream, Turkish Pistachio Baklava, Tahini Cookies and BiscottiSavoury: Four Cheese Tomato Galette, Khachapuri, Garlic Naan and Ciabatta.You'll also find inspiration from the traditional Turkish recipes that sparked her love of dough as a child, as well as recipes sh

A visceral, bite-size novella from a rising Asian American literary star with a striking, surreal, irreverent voice - one of the '5 under 35' National Book Award honorees'Thrillingly disorienting... ultra-sensual' GUARDIAN'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMANAn erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive loveSeven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, re-encounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days.As the two of them board the same bus – each dubiously claiming not to be following the other – their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories. As past and present bleed together, Seven can feel her desire begin to unmoor her from the flow of time.Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of violence and love, and the ghosts of girlhood friendship.'An intriguing tale of

A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' The WeekIt is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily. Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor.But then comes Garibaldi's landing on the Scicilian coast. As Garibaldi's forces press inland, the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them. 'Every once in a while...one stumbles on a book or a writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark.Lampedusa's The Leopard, his only novel, and a masterpiece, is such a work' Independent'The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry' Peter AckroydVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

愛特伍還能讓我們多著迷？這位加拿大國寶作家以50篇散文，暢聊她對各種議題的看法。從如何給人建議到麥片怎麼定義，從威權和喪屍間的關係到當今疫情，看愛特伍以一貫的博學機敏，提出天南地北的問題，再真誠且幽默地和讀者分享她找到的答案。橫跨十餘年，如今集結成冊的散文集，一如她的其他文學作品，引人深思且極富洞見。From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questi

*A NEW STATESMAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021**From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she's asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak thre

In Chris Ware''s own words, ''Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple who wonder if they can bear each other''s company for another minute; and finally an elderly woman who never married and is the building''s landlady...''The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything even Chris Ware has achieved before.

With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote distinguis

Today’s dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control. 'Wu is a titan .. . a must-read' FINANCIAL TIMES'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification'Essential' KAREN HAO, author of Age of EmpireOur world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms.They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late?Tim

本書帶領讀者走進瑪格麗特．愛特伍充滿生命力與想像力的創作世界。她在加拿大北魁北克的森林中長大，童年隨著昆蟲學家父親與獨立堅韌的母親四處遷徙，自然成了她最早、也最深刻的書寫養分。這段自由而略帶孤獨的成長經驗，形塑了她敏銳觀察世界的眼睛。書中，她回望人生的重要節點，細細交織出現實與文學之間的連結：從後來化為《貓眼》的殘酷校園歲月，到在冷戰陰影下的柏林，孕育出《使女的故事》的不安氣息。森林、書籍、政治轉折、愛情與創作，在她筆下彼此呼應，彷彿一部誠實而迷人的生命長詩。‘Fat and satisfying’ — Observer‘I loved it’ — Dua Lipa‘Deliciously naughty’ — iNews‘Beautifully told’ — Woman & Home‘Spellbinding’ — Financial TimesBook of the Year — Guardian, Financial Times, Observer, Belfast TelegraphImmerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between.Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape

The founder of the field of AI risk explains why superintelligent AI is a global suicide bomb and we must halt development immediatelyAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction – but it’s not too late to change course. Two pioneering researchers in the field, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, explain why artificial superintelligence would be a global suicide bomb and call for an immediate halt to its development.The technology may be complex, but the facts are simple: companies and countries are in a race to build machines that will be smarter than any person, and the wo

A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story, from the unmissable Danish literary superstar'Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor' OBSERVER‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVNA classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. She has lived many lives and as she sits out a two-week quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story.Years ago, desperate for money, she sold herself to a man called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. In the bed between them lay a large kitchen knife and the promise of an iconic death.At the last moment, she chose life and fled. Now in London, the woman watches the people around her, searching for clues on how to live in the face of betrayal and loss, and what freedom really looks like.Intimate, revelatory and ultimately revoluti

The new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author ofThe Adventures of China Iron: a sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026****Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso'Playful and devastating, tender and enraging'INTERNATIONAL BOOKER JUDGES, 2026'Luminous'SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN‘Bold and compassionate’Financial TimesFrom deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, he’s become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement. But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them

You can hear his every thought. But he can hear yours too... When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other’s thoughts.However, she’s eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can’t give him what he really wants, she agrees to take this step towards the ultimate intimacy. And at first things are great. Anna feels closer to her husband, and the novelty of communicating mind to mind is a thrill.But then she develops a strange side effect and begins having dreams that aren’t dreams, but memories. Memories that aren’t hers. And if Anna is now seeing Elijah’s memories, what if he can see hers? Will he discover what she's kept buried in her past?Desperate to keep the truth from her husband, Anna's mind becomes a prison she can't escape.How long can she keep the traitorous thoughts at bay before she drives herself mad?A clever exploration of toxic relationships, power i

At once heartrending and enlivening, this phenomenal graphic memoir is not another ode to New York but a meditation on how easy it is to fall beautifully, ridiculously in love*AN OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH*'This is such a rich book, both visually and narratively' - Isabel Greenberg, author of Young Hag'A ravishing new take on a storied city' - Katherine May, New York Times bestselling author of, Wintering and EnchantmentOn her first night in New York, Kay Sohini sits on the tarmac of JFK airport making an inventory of all she’s left behind in India. Kay realises two things: she's finally made it to the city that made her in celluloid and prose from across the Pacific – Kerouac, Friends, Plath – and that trauma she’s endured in her relationship has left gaping holes in her memory. In New York, at last, Kay has room to begin the work of piecing herself back together through art and food.But as her personal story becomes a window onto a mystifying metropolis both inhospitable and

The third volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times number-one bestseller tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion – or something else entirely – that unites us?Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat? Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Masters of History takes us on an immersive and hilarious ride through the human past to discover the forces that change our world, bring us together, and – just as often – tear us apart.Grab a front-row seat to the greatest show on earth and explore the rise of money, religion and empire. Join our fabulous host Heroda Tush, as she wonders: which historical superhero will display the power to make civilisations rise and fall? Will Mr Random prove that luck and circumstance prevail? Will Lady Empire convince us of the irrefutable sha

**LONGLISTED FOR THE FT AND SHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**Inheritance. Fraud. Deceit. Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the truth behind Trump’s wealth, drawing on decades’ worth of confidential tax information, business records and insider interviews.Soon after announcing his first campaign for the U.S. presidency, Donald J. Trump declared life has ‘not been easy for me’. He spun a fable of how he turned a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar empire, and argued this made him singularly qualified to lead the country.Except none of it was true.Born to a rich father, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today.The story of Trump’s finances is one of rises and falls, of squandering fortunes on money-losing businesses to be saved by blind luck. He tacks his name to buildings while taking out huge loans he’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits. He tarnish

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other. What will AI do?NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive. Praise for Nexus‘Tremendous, thought-provoking and so very well reasoned .. . If there is one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ Stephen Fry'One of the most remarkable intellects of our generation' Rory Stewart'This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI’ Mustafa SuleymanPraise for Yuval Noah Harari‘The great thinker of our age’ The Times on 21 Lessons for the 21st Century‘Interesting and provocative’ Barack Obama on Sapiens‘One of my favourite writers and

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023****Shortlisted for the Royal Science Society Book Prize 2023**From the author of the prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless is the story of the scientific quest to decipher, control and fight Covid-19. Breathless traces SARS-CoV-2's fierce journey through the human population as seen by the scientists who study its origin, ever-changing nature and capacity to kill. It shows how strange viruses emerge as we disrupt wild ecosystems - sometimes causing global catastrophe - and suggests this coronavirus could be a 'forever virus' that's destined to bedevil us endlessly.Quammen also explains that experts saw this pandemic coming; that scientists warned 'the next big one' would be caused by a changeable new virus, but were ignored for political or economic reasons; and that while the origins of this virus may not be known for years, some suppositions are compelling and others

電影《贖罪》原著小說作者伊恩•麥克伊旺全新作品，描寫主人翁羅蘭德，行過從二戰終末直至現今的歷史波瀾，在愛、傷痛、漂泊之中，嘗試解答對自身存在的疑問：我們是否能在不傷害他人的情況下，全然活出自我？The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers.'The supreme novelist of his generation' Sunday Times'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times'A true master' Daily TelegraphWhile the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the real

童年時期因遊戲結緣的Sadie和Sam，長大後再次相遇，攜手投身電玩創作，讓玩家能暫時遠離現實，投向數位虛擬世界的懷抱，兩人合作設計出的遊戲一舉獲得空前成功，但隨之而來的金錢與名利浪潮，是否已準備將兩人沖散？Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry―a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: A legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo: a game where players can escape the confines of a body and the betrayals of a heart, and where death means nothing more than a chance to resta

Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of award winning comic artist and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot.Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers and artists, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is intelligent, funny and sad - a fine addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir.

★2025年 Booker Prize 入圍名單。★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。這是一部充滿懸疑氛圍的家庭劇，被形容為「讀起來像心理驚悚片的肥皂劇」。故事圍繞著一個家庭內部的權力鬥爭與秘密展開...主角是一位名叫 Sara 的年輕女子，她受邀回到位於一個偏遠沙漠小鎮的家中，為了與她關係疏遠的父母見面。她的父親是一位國際知名的藝術家，年邁且健康狀況不佳。隨著他的健康惡化，一場關於他龐大藝術遺產的繼承權鬥爭悄然上演。在這個孤立的環境中，Sara 發現自己不僅要應對家人之間緊張的關係，還必須面對過去未解的創傷。小說深入探討了家庭成員之間複雜的親密關係、權力動態，以及在家庭這個舞台上，每個人如何扮演自己的角色、隱藏真實的自我。Kitamura 的寫作風格簡潔而精準，營造出強烈的心理張力，讓讀者跟隨主角的視角，一步步揭開這個家庭光鮮外表下的黑暗秘密。本書特別適合喜愛心理懸疑與文學性家庭劇的讀者，它以緊湊的節奏和充滿張力的氛圍，深刻描繪了家庭內部的權力鬥爭與秘密。對於欣賞簡潔精準、能營造強烈心理張力的文筆，並喜歡探索角色在壓力下的內心世界與行為動機的讀者而言，這部由角色驅動的作品將帶來極具沉浸感的閱讀體驗。**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES'I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today' ALEX PRESTON, ObserverOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An ex

None are safe as they're pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. Vivid, tumultuous and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason's mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut