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A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley.In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She is Britain's longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. A Queen For All Seasons, ed...

A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of ContagiousHow did movements like the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter take off when they did? How did Lord Kitchener recruit 2, 000, 000 volunteers at the start of World War I?Why did Twitter take hold while Google+ has failed?What surprising lessons can we learn from Covid 19?From the spread o...

A powerful collection of 50 stories about how the world's most successful women have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions, This is a book written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about the behind the scenes struggles, The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments, They were brought to...

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Set in Castle Rock, Maine, Gwendy's Magic Feather is a wonderful sequel to Gwendy's Button Box written by Richard Chizmar with a foreword by Stephen King.

*A New York Times Bestseller* 'Mesmerizing' Colson Whitehead'As funny as it is smart.' Candice Carty Williams'A wonderful, riotous romp' Irenosen OkojieMy goal is to teach you how to sell. And if I'm half the salesman every newspaper, blog, and hustler in New York City says I am, then you are in luck. With my story, I will give you the tools to go out and create the life you want. Sound fair?Meet Buck. But before Buck was the Muhammad Ali of s...

A personal, modern guide to the queer culture of women.

Acclaim for the TUNNEL 29 podcast:'Combining the fun of a thriller that we know will end happily with grim perspective on history and tyranny, , , stunning' New Yorker'Reminiscent of a savvy Netflix block buster series' Evening Standard'A truly exciting yarn, , , creates a sense for the listener of being right there in the tunnel, experiencing the dangers, ' Observer-------------------------It's August, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph is digging a t...

The magical and exciting sequel to The Prison Healer from Australia's #1 YA author Lynette Noni.

The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective.

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety. These notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events hap...

The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering in the USA December 17, 2020.FIRST CAME THE VIRUS. AND THEN THE DREAMS...A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.Those who remain are scared, bewildered, ...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE**A TRUE TAIL OF CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.Originally published as A Gift from Bob, this festive standalone special sees the return of James and Bob, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway and Bob himself, coming November 6.From the day James rescued a street cat aba...

The day that changes Lucy's life starts in the worst way possible when she is abruptly fired from her job. Drowning her sorrows in a nearby bar, Lucy spots her ex-boyfriend Max walking past outside. Should she stay where she is and ignore him or should she step outside and say hello?Everything hinges on the outcome of this one decision. In two storylines, we see what happens when Lucy follows both her head and her heart, and how the ripples fr...

The Power of Diverse Thinking. An inspiring book about creative problem-solving from the No 1 bestselling author of 'Bounce', 'Black Box Thinking' and 'You Are Awesome', Matthew Syed. Second edition.

Women have been taught to 'lean in' and act like men to get ahead. But as the financial, environmental, and social systems crumble, isn't it time we had a different plan?The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen financial collapse, a global pandemic, the devastation of our environment and the disintegration of democracies. But while some at the top are telling us 'it is what is it', there's a new generation of leaders showing...

Funny and touching novel charting a young student's journey through university, his travails with the opposite sex and his obsession with making the University Challenge team. Nicholls has many UK TV credits to his name including "Cold Feet" and "Rescue Me". Trade paperback recorded impressive sales after the book was shortlisted as one of Richard & Judy's best reads for 2003. "A toe-curlingly embarassing and cleverly observed comedy" "Company

Part thriller, part medical detective story, this is the origin story of the opioid crisis in America and a rollicking insight into the ways of big pharma and the greed of business that fuelled a national tragedy.

Tana French's devious, deeply felt psychological chiller . . . [is a] dagger-sharp display of mind games' New York Times'Evil stalks the pages of Tana French's fourth novel, it leaves its readers throat-deep in terror' ObserverSOMETIMES THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE.Nothing about the way this family lived shows why they deserved to die. But here's the thing about murder: ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it doesn't break into people's lives. It get...

Sarah begins her diary in the summer of 1881, when her family sets out on the wagon trail from Arizona Territory to Texas. As they travel through a land of rattlesnakes and Indians, hastily dug graves and unbearable loneliness, Sarah turns out to be her family's greatest support.