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The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace).

A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear. It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim ho...

A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about thenature of the universe: that all is One.

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A scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover life, the Universe, and everything.From the mysteries of the subatomic world to the curious property of water that makes our planet inhabitable, master of popular science John Gribbin delves into the astonishing facts that underlie our existence.Some aspects of the quantum world really do seem impossible to common sense, but have been proved correct by experiments. Other feature...

Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister's wise and truthful writing makes this essential reading for anyone touched, and utterly confused, by grief.' - Sali Hughes

A stunning piece of reportage, examining modern India through the stories of three couples who defy their families to be together - across faith, caste and tradition.

An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit.

A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.

This is a splendid book, which narrates the tragedy of a Cuban, Oswaldo Pay, who dared to oppose Fidel Castro in communist Cuba, and paid dearly for it. David E. Hoffman's research is magnificent and his biography reads like a great novel' - MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

The search for the serial killers operating under the cloak of America's opioid epidemic.

Ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship betweenhumans and a species almost magical in its abilities ... fabulous.' - The New YorkTimes

Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.'' Simon Garfield''There is a delicious humour implicit in every page . . . [the book] is filled with a sense of wonder, gazing at languages that neither the writer nor reader understands . . . The Babel Mess...

A history of dreaming.

** Includes foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids **Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as aboy instead of a girl.

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To some, science is simply a means to an end, to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theories and formulae.

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and prison, to finally discovering her voice as a journalist.

**FULLY UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY ON MAX VERSTAPPEN, NOW DOUBLE WORLD CHAMPION** Few drivers have shaken up Formula 1 in quite the same way as Max Verstappen. Already the youngest competitor in F1 history, he made history as the first Dutch driver to win the World Championship in 2021. In 2022 he retained his title with four races to spare and went on to achieve the highest season points tally of all time. As the s...

Includes all the action from the 2020/21 season and his sensational return to Manchester United.