In Funny Thing, Getting Older, one of our most beloved novelists shares his reflections from a lifetime of writing stories about the world. Here, collected for the first time on Michael's 82nd birthday, are his thoughts on nature, childhood, writing, peace and war, and getting older. Some are deeply personal, some political, others in between. And...

China's rise and Russian aggression have upended the global balance of power. The US has proven an unstable partner. Illiberalism is gaining ground. It's time to admit that Europe is once again central to Britain's future. The Continent houses our allies and friends. We still trade more with the EU than with anyone else. Like a court order in a div...

Full Throttle is a high-octane guide to business, leadership and resilience - told through the extraordinary life and lessons of Formula One legend Eddie Jordan. A maverick team boss and fearless entrepreneur, Eddie built Jordan Grand Prix from scratch, discovered world champions like Michael Schumacher, and turned bold risks into billion-pound suc...

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER.Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST CRIME & THRILLER BOOKS OF 2024'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian'Mortimer's verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling' The Times WARNING - this b...

The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones.When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister&m...

Brought to you by Penguin.Are you constantly worried about what people think of you? Psychotherapist Meg Josephson explores the common survival instinct fawning and offers explanations, comfort and solutions. If you ever:Leave social situations overthinking something you've saidOverlook your own boundaries to make other people happyStruggle to say...

'My first big discrepancy came in the shape of a £2,000 shortfall that just made no sense at all. Of all the things that kept me awake once in the thick of the nightmare that unfolded, it was being stuck in that truly incomprehensible moment where the mere touch of a button suddenly turned £2,000 into £4,000 within three minutes o...

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The trailblazing autobiography of England Football legend Mary Earps.A playbook for anyone who has ever thought they don't fit in.A blueprint for success on your own terms.'This book is me, unfiltered. It's the truth behind the headlines, the setbacks behind the saves. I'm so proud to finally share it with the w...

The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who were forced to rebuild their lives.This is their story.In November 2020, Caroline Darian received a call from the police in Carpentras. Her father was in polic...

The house, she was promised, is the first clean page in a new book for girls like her . . . 1847, Shepherds Bush. Charles Dickens' home for fallen women is about to open its doors. Part refuge, part reformatory, the house and its location are top secret, and Martha Gelder and Josephine Nash among its first inmates. But faced with the chance to rede...

This audiobook features an exclusive introduction from Susie Dent, and an exclusive Q&A between Susie and Youtube's Jack Edwards. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular...

I know exactly what it's like to put others first, to settle for less than you deserve and to navigate relationships while trying to balance your independence and goals. But we are worth more than this.Having embarked on my self-love journey, I found that women often lacked clarity on what self-love really means and how to achieve it and this needs...

Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive. It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry, and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard. The Comfort Book is a...

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker, but also a doper, a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is hea...

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July’s second n...

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it.... After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and th...

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly 40 years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star. 'Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck,...

Motherhood can be murder... Perfect for fans of MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER, MAGPIE and HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY. Anna never had a real family. She never needed one. But when she meets her birth mother, Marlene, everything changes - because the same day, she learns she's going to have a baby of her own. Now Anna's hurled headfirst into a new family...

Whether rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Tom Robbins’s briefer writings exhibit the five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an ima...

Brought to you by Penguin.A Sunday Times BestsellerDon't miss out on the bestselling phenomenon from literary sensation Jacqueline Wilson - a warm, uplifting, life-affirming story about friendship, family, and finding fulfilment in unexpected places.Ellie Allard isn't quite where she thought she'd be by her late thirties. Though she's got her beaut...