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Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. 'The Well Dressed Explorer' is the story of a man of his time - but as a story of toxic work...

Saskia is building a home for herself out of the ruins of an old castle. Surrounded by forest, hidden away from everyone and everything, the place is special - it's the only connection she has left to her father and it's a hard-won chance to escape from her difficult past and create a new future....

Growing up with her younger siblings in the unforgiving New Zealand bush, Effie believed their parents had cut them off from civilisation because they loved nature. She never suspected that their reasons might be more menacing. After witnessing a terrifying episode of violence, she escaped the wi...

Katie never stops moving - constantly changing her address, her boyfriends, her life. But every June, for a month, she goes back to Maine. To the old lake house her family calls Paradise. But one day Katie wakes up in a hospital bed in Maine, with no memory of the last eighteen months. From her c...

Humanity is under assault by malevolent 'antimemes' - ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself - in this wickedly brain-bending tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel. They're all around us, hiding in pla...

What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her ground-breaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all - how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch...

Ten strangers wake up inside an old, locked house. They have no recollection of how they got there. In order to escape, they have to solve the disappearance of a young woman. But a killer also stalks the halls of the house, and soon the body count starts to rise. Who are these strangers? Why were...

Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theatre career, difficult childhood and path to sobriety in his honest, moving and long-awaited memoir.

Angela runs a dating agency and is an expert at connecting over fifties looking for the one. Sara has lost her husband and is forcing herself to speed-date in the hope of finding love again. Helen lives with her controlling partner, Brian - but she's been keeping his abusive behaviour a secret fr...