Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.
MONDAY
Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.
MONDAY
If you could go back and change the past, would the future turn out the way you want it to? Imraan Coovadia’s dazzlingly original, A Spy in Time, is an extraordinary tale for extraordinary times.
“I NEVER SET OUT TO be anybody’s prophet. I didn’t see myself as a spy. I was twenty-five years old and I was ready for adventure.
Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion.
Set amongst the teachers, students and families of a prestigious school, Samantha Downing’s stunningly original new thriller, For Your Own Good, has been summed up as “Big Little Lies meets Gillian Flynn”.
The Waddle is where penguins and people babble about books, and with the range of features – advice, inspiration, recipes, columns and extracts galore – there’s something for every book lover. Here are the most popular features so far this year, as chosen by you!
In Thinking the Future, scenario specialists Clem Sunter and Mitch Ilbury teach us the futurist’s art of decision-making, where the flexibility of thinking like a fox plays a key role in adapting to a complex and interconnected world. The book rejects the appealing but misleading self-help narrative that you can decide your future through sheer determination in pursuit of your goals and replaces it with a more dynamic approach.
A rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, memory and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
ISLAND
Terror has a new sound... and it comes from the darkest corners of James Patterson's imagination.
CHAPTER ONE
TENNANT
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
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