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Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares...

Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world. He is also the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films, starring Robert Downey Junior. From his humble beginnings...

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting...

They wanted the same things. Death - and an audience. Eve Singer makes her living from death. As a TV crime reporter, she ll go to any length to get the latest scoop. But when a twisted serial killer starts using her to gain the publicity he craves,...

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of...

I closed my eyes as I tried to pick apart every flavour, because nothing had ever tasted so good before. It was love and it could not be hidden. It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is...

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility...

Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND became one of the most loved books of...

Rachel catches the same train every morning. It always waits at the same signal, so each day she watches the people who live in one of the houses. Then she sees something shocking. Now Rachel has a chance to become part of the lives shes seen from...

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood, and shes set her heart on a new career as a celebrity stylist. But she soon finds its tough in Tinseltown. When her big chance finally arrives, its an opportunity that money cant buy. But will it cost...

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran s devotion has...

Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs droppings. They dont wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on...

The Paris you never knew, as revealed by the million-copy bestselling author ofA Year In The Merde. He goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians know about their city but are reluctant to share with...

Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, hes lived several lives well. Because Matthieu Zelas life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu...

A prime number is a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are also alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alices overbearing father drove her first to a skiing...

If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big time... you could hide under your duvet, hoping that they would...

A fresh and exciting new telling of a classic nautical adventure by the bestselling author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majestys Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline - the...

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming...

Sittenfeld tracks, in her uneven third novel, the life of bookish, naive Alice Lindgren and the trajectory that lands her in the White House as first lady. Charlie Blackwell, her boyishly charming rake of a husband, whose background of Ivy...