Since her husband passed away, Simone's days in Australia have become repetitive and predictable. Her friends are driving her mad introducing her to eligible men and her busy daughters are no better, always wanting her available for babysitting. When she...

Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushes with both extreme wealth and poverty, Janiurek's rich...

The riveting history of the East India Company, a private enterprise that became a de facto colonial power, William Dalrymple’s latest book is a cautionary tale about the pernicious effects of capitalism and the dangers of unregulated corporate greed...

Shortlisted for Empire's Book of the Year 2018.  Doing for the law what Do No Harm did for medicine, this explosive exposé brilliantly uncovers the cracks in British justice’s legal crown.  I'm a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social...

Former Empire Book of the Year-shortlisted The Secret Barrister unmasked the corruption and deficiencies of a broken British legal system, and now Fake Lawexposes the lies and misinformation spread by those who would seek to keep the...

A radical call to arms against the limited boundaries of individual thought, Syed’s latest masterwork posits the idea that only collaborative thinking can unlock human potential and help to solve the burning problems of modern society.   Where do the...

Exploring a compelling cast of data detectives from Florence Nightingale to Daniel Kahneman, as well as the murky world of misinformation, How to Make the World Add Up is an indispensable guide to statistics from the author of Fifty Things That Made the...

Following on from the brilliant Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the bestselling economist Tim Harford explores another fifty items – from bricks to postage stamps – that have played a key role in shaping our global story, injecting life into...

A welcome corrective to the inflexible tribalism of modern political discourse, this thoughtful and entertaining volume from the broadcaster and author of How To Be Rightpays tribute to the power of changing your mind. There's no point having a mind...

A welcome corrective to the inflexible tribalism of modern political discourse, this thoughtful and entertaining volume from the broadcaster and author of How To Be Rightpays tribute to the power of changing your mind. There's no point having a mind...

The perfect way to remember a remarkable human being who embodied hope and courage during the past troubled twelve months, this volume gathers together the wisdom accrued through a long and eventful life.  'One small soul like me won't make much...

From the author of Six of Crows comes a tantalising glimpse inside the Grishaverse, an accompanying volume to Leigh Bardugo's bestselling Grisha series Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by...

A handsome reproduction of a book pivotal to Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series, The Lives of Saints chronicles figures from Sankta Lizabeta to the Starless Saint in richly evocative prose. Enter the world of the Grishaverse and Shadow and Bone, soon...

FT Business Book of the Year 2018 City AM Book of the Year 2018 Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are...

In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one...

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us...

A basketball coach unlike any other, Phil Jackson, the ‘zen master’ – as he was affectionately termed by the press – employed coaching techniques lifted from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy. Eleven...

'Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually.In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.How do you build and sustain a great team?The Culture Code reveals the secrets of some of the best teams in the world - from Pixar to Google to US Navy SEALs - explaining the three skills such groups have mastered in...

- Don't fall for the prodigy myth- Take off your watch- Embrace struggle- Take a nap- To learn it more deeply, teach itThe Little Book of Talent is packed full of 52 simple, practical, proven tips that will help improve any skill. Whether you want a...