Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she's been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town's orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most.
Travelling in a loop around France, from Le Havre to Paris, Peter Fiennes explores France’s sense of its own people, place and identity through some of its greatest writers and artists. Moving between the centuries, from the Arthurian forests and Neolithic fields of Brittany to the banlieues of Paris, Fiennes follows the threads of history across France.
An optimistic call to arms for our turbulent times, which maps the extraordinary revolution in politics, thinking, and human rights that we are living through, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me.
Throughout the world, authoritarian movements are radically reshaping our politics and our lives. At the heart of them all lies great replacement theory , which insists that peoples of colour, migrants and minorities are being deliberately empowered to displace white majorities.
The Elements of Power A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth - Nicolas Niarchos
'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.'
The new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven. The Newmans are America's favourite TV family. But when a car crash throws their series finale out the window, the cracks in their lives threaten to pull them apart .
Legenda The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe - Janina Ramirez
A brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been misrepresented and co-opted over centuries for political, nation-building ends. By Professor Janina Ramirez, bestselling historian and author of FEMINA From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.
Stranger Than Fiction Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel - Edwin Frank
For more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed publisher New York Review Books. In Stranger than Fiction, he offers a legendary editor’s survey of the key works that defined the twentieth-century novel.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa
Discover the fabulous new double volume hardback gifting edition containing two bestsellers by Hiro Arikawa: The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat.
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