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Raw provocative chaotic and dare I say slutty COLLEEN HOOVERA thrilling memoir by The White Lotus and Euphoria actor Lukas Gage which chronicles his upbringing in a broken family struggles with borderline personality disorder and his commitment to always being the centre of attention Lukas Gage was having one of the shittiest weeks of his life Not only was his beloved grandmother dying across from the building where months prior Lukas had grappled with the dissolution of his marriage but he was also forced to sit next to his mostly absent tit obsessed father the entire time Naturally Lukas did the smartest thing anyone can do in a crisis of death divorce and daddy issues doom scroll to see what random people on the internet were saying about him People were calling him an attention whore and they were absolutely right As a toddler he set his room on fire As a child he flirted with women at Hooters to his father s delight As a teen he fell hopelessly in love with a girl who wore an ankle monitor He became an actor and filmed that scene in TheWhite Lotus if you know you know Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved it more than anything in the world I Wrote This for Attention is an exquisite memoir that details Lukas coming of ag

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.My prayers are my poems are my prayers.I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.

The Zodiac Academy series from the Twisted Sisters and Amazon and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti is a Booktok phenomenon. This print re-issue includes an exclusive bonus chapter, brand new world map, and a new cover. As well as the stunning interior chapter pages which were included in the previous edition.All stars must fall.Bloody, lost, broken. We live to fight another day. But with so much stolen from us, can the fates ever twist in our favour again?My sister and I have been torn apart by shadows and despair, and now we each stand alone.Our sorrow is spun like a web, trapping us tight, and I fear our enemies will soon come to feast upon our souls.But if I have my way, the merciless sky will have dealt us its final fortune. Its time for us to take back the power thats been ripped from our grasp and turn the tide of this war.All stars must fall, and all Phoenixes must rise.

Intelligent darkly humorous and brilliantly written STANLEY TUCCI This is Elizabeth Day s writing at its finest DOLLY ALDERTON A tantalising portrait of privilege and power THE TIMESIn this compulsive story of betrayal old bonds and buried scandals one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power Martin and Ben were friends for decades best friends Martin would have said before the terrible events at Ben s 40th birthday party tore them apart So when Martin receives a surprise invitation back into the inner sanctum of the dazzling Fitzmaurice family after seven years of silence he can t resist the chance to get his revenge Ben has risen through the ranks of power and is now touted as the next Prime Minister But Martin can t help but notice certain flies in the ointment Ben s wife Serena for instance whose privileged existence is beginning to feel like a gilded cage Or their daughter Cosima an environmental activist fighting against everything her parents once stood for Or the disgraced MP Richard Take determined to make his big comeback And then there s Fliss the Fitzmaurice black sheep whose untimely death sparks more suspicion than closure Through their intertwined stories w

Discover 100 astrological recipes from everyone s favourite cocktail bar The Alchemist Enter a new dimension to create perfect planetary alignment with a brand new collection of dazzling recipes from the authors of The Alchemist Cocktail Book Harness the power of the cosmos to mix the perfect alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks for each sign of the zodiac This spell binding guide is brimming with unique cocktails that embody each astrological sign s distinct personality traits elements and ruling planets Use it to infuse your gatherings with cosmic creativity with recipes from a mesmerising Smokey Paloma to a thirst quenching Cherry Poppins So whether you re a fiery Aries a grounded Taurus or a dreamy Pisces Cosmic Cocktails promises enchanting recipes that will elevate your cocktails to enchanting new heights There s recipes for everyone from novice mixers to seasoned bartenders Distil the universe into a glass with tantalising recipes including Cosmic OysterBall BreakerPear ple RainPower TripPlant Pot Picante

No man will call your house his home And if they try they will not have peace So goes the family curse long handed down from generation to generation ruining families and breaking hearts And now it s Eniiyi s turn who due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt Monife is already used to her family s strange beliefs as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation Still when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning she can no longer run from her family s history Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt

A village haunted by stories Two women bound by a secret A haunting gothic tale of ancient darkness and a love that defies convention from Sunday Times 1 bestseller Bridget Collins At once a moving study of women s lives after the First World War an exquisite love story and a terrifying folk horror So beautifully written that I could hardly bear to stop reading this is Bridget Collins at her beguiling best EMILIA HART Bridget Collins writing haunts my dreams ERIN KELLY A spine chillingly scary romance and a heartwarmingly romantic horror novel I raced through it at breakneck speed even as I wished it would go on forever Beautifully written thrillingly imagined and a joy on every page SANDRA NEWMAN I honestly never thought another author could rival Sarah Waters but I was wrong I haven t read a historical novel quite as good as this in years LOUISE MORRISHWatching over the village of Haltington is an ancient carving in the ground known to locals simply as the Face It was first etched into the chalk when lives were ruled by superstition and stories by fear of the unknown of the shadows For centuries the inhabitants of Bone Cottage have tended to it But now that the Great War has decimated the population of even this most isolated of plac

Most people have no idea that we have scorpions Aesculapian snakes eagle owls wallabies and many more unusual non native species living and breeding in the British Isles In An Unnatural History of Britain nature writer Kevin Parr travels the length and breadth of the country seeking out these rare creatures and exploring the myths and folklore which have emerged around them along the way

THE RUNAWAY JAPANESE BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH Pre order now and discover the enchanting tale of an aged near blind book loving king and the stories he collects about unusual and magical books A book that makes the sound of turning pages fractionally too early infuriating its readers a diary shared by two children with painful secrets a photo album left by a dying father for when his daughter gets married An elderly book loving king sends two subjects on a mission to travel the world collecting stories about weird and wonderful books Upon their return they recount their stories for the king over the course of thirteen nights From the comically irreverent to the heartrending to the heartwarming The Neverending Book delves into all that a book can be forming an enchanting compendium that reveals the ways in which we interact with books and the importance they hold in our hearts all told through the tale of two subjects gathering stories about books for their blind book loving king

The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny a brilliantly written laugh out loud funny dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny verse a world that Margaret Atwood declared soooo genius In the cult classic novel Bunny Samantha Heather Mackey a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet rich girl cohort who call one another Bunny An invitation to the Bunnies Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole pun intended into the violently surreal world of their off campus Workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with wondrous yet deadly consequences When We Love You Bunny opens Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim But at a New England stop on her book tour her one time frenemies furious at the way they ve been portrayed kidnap her Now a captive audience it s her and our turn to hear the Bunnies side of the story One by one they take turns holding the axe and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance their discovery of their unusual creative powers and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation With a bound and gagged Sam we embark on a wickedly intoxicat

Secrets rumours and dangerous liaisons at an elite New England boarding school they come with the territory It s move in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting selfies uploading and cars unloading shocking news arrives America Today just ranked Tiffin the number two boarding school in the country It s a seventeen spot jump was there a typo The dorms are dingy the sports teams always come last and Tiffin students are known for being more social than academic But the campus is exquisite class sizes are small and the dining hall is run by a New York chef And they do have lots of fun But as the rarefied air of Tiffin is suffused with self congratulation scandalous bulletins begin to appear on phones across campus thanks to a new app called Zip Zap and nobody is safe From Davi Banerjee queen bee and international influencer to Simone Bergeron the young new history teacher to Charley Hicks a transfer student who seems determined not to fit in it seems everyone has something to hide As the year unfolds bonds are forged and broken secrets are shared and exposed and the lives of Tiffin s students and staff are changed forever Elin Hilderbrand bestselling author of The Perfect Couple teams up with her da

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEA Everything was a puzzle everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me Winter 1899 and strange things are afoot As the new century approaches English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father Evelyn s plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo the couple are met by a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences which exacerbate Evelyn s already frayed nerves Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he really losing his mind A marvellous and rewarding novelist He is a magician really THE SCOTSMAN Banville has a grim gift of seeing people s souls DON DeLILLO The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years IRISH TIMES One of my favourite writers alive REBECCA F KUANG Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance NEW YORK TIMES

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be in disarray but for one young woman the very weave of herself seems to have loosened Time and memories pass straight through her body she s afraid of her own floorboards and WHAT IS LOVE BABY DON T HURT ME plays over and over in her ears I m sorry not to respond to your email she writes but I live completely in the present now But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side and with it the chance for a blinding re emergence into the world From one of our most original inventive and prodigiously funny writers Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation Namita Gokhale I really admire and love this book Sally Rooney I can t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book David Sedaris A rare wonder I was left in bits Douglas Stuart

Oliver Sacks s Letters isn t a book of the year it s a book for a lifetime Keep this by your side dip into it be reminded of the wonders of our shared humanity Erica Wagner Books of the year 2024 New StatesmanA New Yorker and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024 Oliver Sacks one of the great humanists of our age who describes himself in these pages as a philosophical physician and an astronomer of the inward wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends Most were scientists artists and writers even statesmen Francis Crick Antonio Damasio Jane Goodall W H Auden Susan Sontag Stephen Jay Gould Bjork and his first cousin Abba Eban But many of the most eloquent letters in this collection are addressed to the ordinary people who wrote to him with their odd symptoms and questions to whom he responds with a sense of generosity and wonder With some correspondents Sacks shares his struggle for recognition and acceptance both as a physician and as a gay man providing intimate accounts as well of his passions for competitive weightlifting motorcycles botany and music With others he chronicles his penchant for testing the boundaries of authority the discovery of his writer s voice and his explosive seasons of discovery with