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Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience. Rory StewartA sweeping and superbly written epicWall Street Journal A work of great ambition... an account that is informed, filled with insights and a cracking read too.Peter FrankopanIraq is where civilisation was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, and it was here by the waters of Babylon where Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape. Inspired by extensive reporting from the region and a decade delving deep into its history, Land Between the Rivers chronicles Iraqs uniquely central role on the global stage throughout the past five millennia.We begin the story with ancient Sumer and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk (Iraq) to make a great name for himself at the edge of historical time. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free and promising capital in the Middle East.Bartle Bulls remarkable, sweeping achievement reminds us that the region defined by the land between the rivers has, throughout history, played host to the contest pitting humanism against the machinations of power and fate.Conceptual originality and laudable ambition... Inspired by firsthand experience of the region.New York TimesA sweeping and superbly written epic... He is a more compassionate, and much better informed, heir to Gertrude Bell... Throughout his account, Mr. Bull highlights the human, and humanist, threads in the political tapestry.Wall Street JournalDazzling erudition and narrative flair come together in this superb history of Iraq... essential readingJustin Marozzi, author of Islamic EmpiresPanoptic, fearless and beautifully writtenChristopher de Bellaigue, author of The Lion House and The Islamic Enlightenment

A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historianA courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject The HeraldFascinating Katherine MayThese books ... deepen our understanding of how our bodies are ourselves, and how we may live... New StatesmanBeautifully written, lyrical and unflinching Charlotte Fox WeberHer passion for her topic spills into her writing; the conclusions she draws are troubling and thought-provokingThe TelegraphThe day Jessica Hamel-Akre discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as Dr Diet - it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of womens appetite and a personal unravelling.In this bold and radical book, Hamel-Akre follows Cheyne through the pages of medical studies, novels and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters and early feminist philosophers, all of whom were once grappling with nascent ideas around food, longing and the body. In doing so, she uncovers the eighteenth-century origins of both todays diet culture and her own troubled relationship with wanting.Blending history and memoir, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality and oppression, and show how it all got tangled up with what we eat.

A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish. FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You CanEverything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid bare in this gripping and infuriating insider account... Funny, illuminating and beautifully written. LIAM VAUGHAN, author of Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in HistoryCrypto Confidential tells the salacious story of the industry everyone is talking about right now. In doing so, it sheds light on some of the most scandalous financial crimes of the twenty-first century. From billion-dollar fraud cases to international money laundering cartels, political bribery and even faked deaths, it lifts the lid on the intricate and immense web of malpractice that crypto founders spin to trap ordinary investors.Written by a prominent and well-connected insider, Crypto Confidential provides a first-hand account of how the industry truly operates, and how every aspect is engineered for one purpose: to make vast amounts of fast money for those on the inside, by any means necessary.

THE NEXT NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE UKS FAVOURITE CRIME WRITERS WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD.The body of a wealthy businessman is discovered in the river, but this was no accidental drowning.He was shot before his body entered the water. The police question the dead mans young girlfriend and his two adult children, all of whom are hoping to inherit his fortune.Before the killer is found, the dead mans girlfriend is murdered, and pressure mounts for Geraldine and her team to solve the case.Geraldines partner is called away to work undercover. Soon after he leaves, their baby vanishes along with the child minder.Geraldine struggles to focus on the murder investigation while she desperately tries to find her child. Afraid that one of her colleagues may be in contact with the kidnapper, she knows she has to work alone, but time may be running out for her child.The next thrilling crime investigation, and the 22nd Instalment in the bestselling Geraldine Steel series.

THE 2025 HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELFrom New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimms Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novic, Alix E. Harrow and Nettle & Bone.Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesnt have any doors between roomsthere are no secrets in this house! Cordelia isnt allowed to have a single friend. The only time she feels truly free is on her daily rides with her mothers beautiful white horse, Falada.But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents cant force their daughters to be silent and motionlessobedientfor hours or days on end. Other mothers arent . . . sorcerers. After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelias mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelias mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage. Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother. How the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. She knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.

This instant New York Times bestseller is a visceral Victorian gothic horror of a young autistic trans boy who can commune with spirits, forced into a haunted sanitorium.Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, hell be married by the end of the year. It doesnt matter that hes needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sicknessa mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madnessand shipped away to Braxtons Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxtons innards and expose its rotten guts to the worldas long as the school doesnt break him first.

Barnes & Nobles April Book Club PickAn Amazon Top 10 Editors PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary HubSet in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainys private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.

An untried acolyte desperate to speak with the orisha she worships accidentally reignites a cosmic war. The fate of her gods and of her world now lies in her inexperienced hands. Perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Daughters of Nri, and Godkiller.Ashake is an acolyte in the temple of Ifa, yearning for the day she is made a priest and sent out into the world to serve the orisha. But of all the acolytes, she is the only one the orisha refuse to speak to. For years she has watched from the sidelines as peer after peer passes her by and ascends to full priesthood.Desperate, Ashake attempts to summon and trap an orishaany orisha. Instead, she experiences a vision so terrible it draws the attention of a powerful enemy sect and thrusts Ashake into the center of a centuries-old war that will shatter the very foundations of her world.

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths.Boating down the Rhine one day, Charlotte sights a fellow traveller, who releases the hissing floodwaters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte towards the watershed of her life, stretching her imagination to its limit.Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Ann Schlees heady novel creates a tension that is as compelling as it is mysterious, forcing her characters to confront each other as well asthemselves over one hot summer abroad.

What has the small nation of Wales given to the wide world?Well, to name but a few examples: the NHS, magical drama, mail order, sleeping bags, the basis of the internet, the Town of Books, the first powered flight, presidents, prime ministers and Nobel prize-winners.People of Welsh heritage have helped shape the culture and constitution of the United States; they have enriched British culture in innumerable ways through writing, acting, painting, poetry, singing and architecture; they have amassed a fantastic range of sporting achievements; and they made their own unique mark on history.Welsh history deserves to be rewritten in a manner that highlights and celebrates its achievements both past and present. The 100 reasons in this book do just that. They are pathfinders to a confident tomorrow as the Royal Badge of Wales reads in translation: The Red Dragon points the way.

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA perfectly timed narrative history No one who crosses the Channel can fail to learn from, and enjoy, this original and absorbing book. Patrick MarnhamIt was half a million years ago that Britain first parted from Europe. As ice melted, water smashed through the chalky land bridge that separated Britain from the continent of Europe, forming what we now know as the English Channel, and what the French call La Manche. The second parting, far from being a force of nature, was the choice of Britains islanders disillusioned with continental rule.In The Busy Narrow Sea, Robin Laurance tells the story of the people whose lives have become entwined over the centuries with this iconic seaway, presenting a broad sweep of carefully researched historical fact lightened with a host of colourful anecdotes. This diverse tale covers artists captivated by its light; writers inspired by its power; tunnellers relishing its challenges; entrepreneurs turning fishing villages into smart resorts; smugglers ruling and adventurers conquering the waves; and much more besides, from Napoleon through the Second World War and into the modern day.

A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Editors Choice A New York Post Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Biography/MemoirHilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for SmokingMight be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyableDaily TelegraphA spin doctor to the rich and corrupt spills his secrets... starts with the crack of a Jack Reacher thrillerThe New York TimesThe man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media. After nearly two decades in the PR business, Phil Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry thats made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what hes been up to for the past twenty years - and it isnt pretty. From helping win the Qatar World Cup bid, to a four-day Las Vegas bacchanal with a dictators son, and helping to land a Middle Eastern dictators wife a glowing profile in Vogue at the same time the Arab Spring broke out, Elwood reveals all his slippery tricks for seducing journalists in order to create chaos and cover for politicians, dictators and spies. But as Phil moved up the ranks, he felt worse and worse about the sleaziness of it all - and his role in it - until he received a shocking wake-up call from the FBI. This risky game nearly cost Phil his life and his freedom. Seeing the light, he has decided to tell the full truth about who is the worst human. _____A rollicking, unexpectedly affecting story. . . Its going to be one of the big, buzzy Beltway books of the year. PoliticoPhil Elwood has written a book about his Washington life thats part therapy, part cautionary tale ? and quite funny . . . What makes Elwoods story stand out from the typical Washington read is that his personal demons are so intertwined with his professional choices . . . Elwoods prose is zippy, even Sorkin-esque, and he relishes dark humor. The Washington PostIf Hunter S. Thompson billed clients by the hour, it would look like All The Worst Humans by Phil Elwood. The pacing and storytelling propel the books epic sweep across the darkside of DC and global hotspots. Even the most experienced in PR will learn things they did not know, and Elwoods gripping personal story is an unexpected and wild ride. Bill McCarren, former Executive Director, National Press ClubA lively, often hilarious, blood-chilling tale. Sam Kashner, Air MailA redemption story about becoming a better human, a story Elwood tells with vulnerability, heart, and brutal honesty. James Kirchick, New York Times bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay WashingtonAn exhilarating ride through the underbelly of global power structures. Ben Smith, author of Traffic and editor in chief of SemaforI raced through this book and was gripped by every page. Sophie Heawood

An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong. Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & SteamThree Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good.Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeneys ace stunt driver! Renaults doyenne of colours and fabrics!Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.

Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the gathering together of his lifetimes work. Although widely known as Matisses Chapel, the buildings remarkable modern design and decoration emerged from a surprising friendship and artistic engagement with a group of Dominican sisters and brothers keen to see the Church embrace Modern Art and modern artists. With the advantage of hitherto unexplored archive and printed materials this study highlights that mutual encounter and explores how their shared artistic adventure became for Matisse himself an opportunity to express his religious vision of art and to rediscover his natal Catholic Faith in its post-war avant-garde form.

Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life, searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller!**WINNER of the CWA Historical DAGGER 2025***`Heartbreaking, beautiful, lyrical you wont want to put it down Catriona Ward`Utterly thrilling Elizabeth MacNeal`Immersive, illuminating and exceptionally entertaining Matt Cain`Stunning and powerful Youll never forget Thomas True Janice Hallett`A clever mystery, a powerful love story affected me more than anything Ive read in a long time Gareth Brown**WINNER OF THE HWA DEBUT CROWN****THE TOP TEN Sunday Times BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED for Booksellers Association Author of the Year**_________________The only sin is betrayalIt is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of Londons hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses.Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollys stoic guard. When a young man is found murdered, he realises there is a rat amongst them, betraying their secrets to a pair of murderous Justices.Can Gabriel unmask the traitor before they hang? Can he save hapless Thomas from peril, and their own forbidden love?Set amidst the buried streets of Georgian London, The Betrayal of Thomas True is a brutal and devastating thriller, where love must overcome evil, and the only true sin is betrayal__________________`Quite simply divine had me in all sorts of tears Jennie Godfrey`A vivid exploration of a largely forgotten aspect of Londons past as compelling as Wests debut The Times`Simmers with sinister menace and illicit temptation Susan Stokes-Chapman`An unforgettable combination of historical thriller, love story and heartbreaking tragedy Heat`Ingeniously plotted, vivid and memorable Historical Novel Society`Electric an unputdownable read Attitude Magazine`An epic adventure of love in a time of danger Hallie Rubenhold`Exuberant, moving Rosie Andrews`Vivid, impressive and utterly immersive I was weeping by the final pages. Masterful D.V. Bishop`A devastating story told with great power Christopher Stephens`You are instantly immersed in the perilous, hot, exciting, plot-swirling world of Mollies Felice Picano`Youll smile, youll gasp, youll cry Essie Fox`Hugely entertaining Anna Mazzola`Bursting with memorable characters and stunning imagery Sean Lusk`Brilliantly researched and lavishly written Emma Stonex`Like a modern Fielding Kate Griffin`Hypnotic. A hurtling tale of deception and self-discovery James Cahill`Very, very good Stephen Fry`There has never been a book that made me cry until today Suzie Edge`A beautiful, dark love story set in the fetid streets of Georgian London unp...

An instant New York Times bestseller, this furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors is perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys.Prepare to die. His kingdom is near.Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised himthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the worlds population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult cant get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALCs leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benjis darkest secret: the cults bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nicks termsuntil he discovers the ALCs mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

"Slasher movies are seen by some as kitschy fun, but this is a seriously disturbing novel, delving into the sacrifices art demands, psychological trauma and how monsters are made. Sometimes painful reading, its also incredibly gripping, smart and scary." The GuardianThe New York Times bestseller! Includes bonus content - see concept notes and pages from Tremblays notebooks.The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World.Summer, 1993 a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film.The weird part? Only three of the films scenes were ever released to the public. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic renown.Decades later, a big budget reboot is in the works, and Hollywood turns to the only surviving cast member the man who played the Thin Kid, the masked teen at the centre of it all. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the crossed lines on set.Caught in a nightmare of masks and appearances, facile Hollywood personalities and fan conventions, the Thin Kid spins a tale of past and present, scripts and reality, and what the camera lets us see. But at what cost do we revisit our demons?After all these years, the monster the world never saw will finally be heard.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWise, funny and generousThe TimesWarm and perceptiveNew York TimesSo honest and funny and smartObserverGriffin Dunne knows how to tell a storyWashington PostDunne is a prospector for the incandescent detailLos Angeles TimesFull of light, life and colour...a startling tale of precarious American privilege, spotlighting a family that is blessed and cursedGuardianAt eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didions legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfes The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In his early twenties, he shared a Manhattan apartment with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called Star Wars and he was a struggling actor selling popcorn at Radio City Music Hall. A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese.In the midst of it all, Griffins twenty-two-year-old sister, Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was brutally strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s. The outcome was a travesty of justice that marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunnes career as a bestselling author of true crime narratives.And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, The Friday Afternoon Club is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny and moving characters - its author most of all.

A good story, embracing character, emotion and drama... refreshing.THE TIMESA splendidly sympathetic and sparky portrait... Wittily written and rich in detail Miranda SeymourCatherine of Braganza - Boring? Plain? Ineffectual? Think again.Charles IIs wife was a trouser-wearing tastemaker who introduced tea drinking, popularised card games and championed baroque fashion and art. Her salon culture was infamous for its parties, theatricals and frequent trips to the pub. A Catholic queen in a strictly Anglican country, she was the diplomatic bridge between an unstable Britain and the European mainland, and carefully navigated the treacherous political landscape of Restoration England.In this illuminating portrait historian Sophie Shorland brings Catherine vividly to life for the first time, revealing a woman who defied the limitations imposed upon her to have a profound impact on the world around her.Previously published as The Lost Queen.

Heartbreaking Fascinating Unbearably poignant. - Daily MailDramatic Sensational ... Closely researched and compulsively readable. - The LadyMeticulously researched, erudite and utterly engaging Magnificent. - Karen Powell, author of Fifteen Wild DecembersNovelist, sister, celebrity, wife, daughter: Charlotte Bronte played many roles. As the beloved author of Jane Eyre, she is one of the most radical talents of the nineteenth century. And one of the most mysterious.Based entirely on rarely seen private letters, this radical and moving biography sheds new light on the dramatic events of Brontes turbulent last years of grief, fulfilment and tragedy and exposes the astonishing media scandal that followed her early death, when her friends and family battled to control how history would remember her.