The death of Jessica Burke was easy to explain: a history of depression, a heroin habit, a girl alone in her bathtub. But when her psychoanalyst, Daniel Abend, receives an ominous, handwritten poem, h
Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists turn when they try to engineer a hive mind? Termites. Strange though it seems, scient
A fast-paced, witty and gripping historical crime opener to The Monsarrat Series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter MegIn an Australian penal colony at the edge of the known world, gentleman co
'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is al
From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrificeWINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD 2020A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK O
Demagogues and authoritarians are flourishing in this modern age of political myth. They exploit our fears and fantasies. Exposing the fictions that these new rulers use to take and keep control has n
Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life into it? Dora Simon and Joe O'Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upende
The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture bu
A time-travelling adventure with interactive experiments for budding young scientists, by Nobel Prize winning Barry MarshallMary has always wanted to win a Nobel Prize and loves running her own scienc
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION Twenty-six-year-old cleaner Mona has just had a bad break up with a boyfriend named Mr Disgusting (don't ask...) But her plans
'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful
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From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic... The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being ass
American Heroin is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Lola, featuring a ruthless woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empireIt took sacrifice, pain, and more than a few dead bodies, b
Is Apple conscious?Could a cyber-human system sense a potential terrorist attack?Or make diagnosing a rare and little-known disease routine?Computers are not replacing us: they are enhancing us. Diffe
How do you predict something that has never happened before?There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the
'This is a wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed as Wagner reveals the sources of human and natural creativity.'- Alice Roberts In Darwin's survival of the fitt
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Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter CunninghamHector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing village on what they believe to be a routine expeditio
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever?At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crow
