Summer Reads

Feel good and function well with the help of Resilience. Resilience is your key to surviving and thriving in an ever more challenging world. This highly practical book gives you the tools and techniques to deal with the minor irritations and major events...

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year 2013 - New Manager Category (previous edition)The Leadership Skills Handbook from best-selling author Jo Owen reveals the essential skills you need to be an effective leader.This book shows you what works in...

In a world still adjusting to the impact of the pandemic, remote and hybrid working is new territory for most people. But many managers can be poorly equipped to deal with it: the more casual ways of managing in a physical office simply don't work with...

Does the idea of public speaking leave you in a cold sweat?   Public speaking can be daunting. The Speaker's Coach will help you learn how to write a speech and develop your speech writing skills so that you can effectively prepare for talks and deliver...

A detailed review of what businesses need to know about influencer strategies, social media and how digital communication works.Digital influencing is one of the most exciting and disruptive new industries, forecast to be worth billions by 2020, but...

Forcing compliance is easy. Anyone can 'make' another perform a task. It will get done, but when and to what standard? Sustained high performance can only come from engagement with and commitment to the job in hand.This book will introduce you to...

(Available after 3-20 days) "If The Unabomber's Manifesto had been about office work" -- Janine, HR Professional. Shortlisted for The Business Book Awards 2021, The Management Delusion is a funny and eye-opening take on the modern workplace that will...

'OMG! This book is SO me! The tips and stories shared by Ed, Mark and Nicky will help you live a life filled with more fun, joy and enthusiasm!' -- ALISON HAMMOND, TV Presenter 'Kids are so authentic and there's no reason for us to lose that when we're...

Want to be the next Ella Mills? Award-winning rising star entrepreneur, Angelica Malin shows you how.For a new generation of fiercely independent and ambitious career women, going at it alone and even thinking you could launch your own successful...

Winner of the Business Book Award (Personal Development) 2020"Using our Physical Intelligence we can strengthen our cognitive function and alter our mood, emotional responses, stress, confidence and happiness levels at will." -- HR magazine"This could be...

A great brand voice grabs attention, persuades your audience, and builds loyalty. But as the number of brand channels explodes, organisations are finding it harder than ever to create a consistent, differentiated brand voice and express exactly what they...

Have you ever wondered what has made Mercedes the undisputed kings of Formula One? Do you want to know how Lewis Hamilton has managed to exceed legendary driver Michael Schumacher's record of winning races? And most of all, do you want to find out how to...

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall...

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway’s first novel—both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post–World War I EuropeThe Sun Also Rises tracks...

A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1991 So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite...

A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri's lushly imaginative novel, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991.The narrator of The Famished Road is a spirit-child who exists between life and death, destined to an...

Fitzgerald's masterpiece—the quintessential Jazz Age novel—now in a hardcover Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics editionFor generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the...

The journalist and podcast host tells her inspirational and courageous story of living with incurable bowel cancer and how developing a positive mindset was key to enabling her to cope with her diagnosis.   I'm alive when I should be dead. In another...

Combining poetry and prose to startling effect, McLeod's powerful debut revolves around a girl imprisoned in a forest made from her own Afro as she comes of age amidst the temptations and opportunities of the inner-city.   A genre-bending YA that...