Amy Lloyd studied English and Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University. In 2016 she won the Daily Mail Bestseller Competition for her debut novel The Innocent Wife which, when it was published, became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Amy lives in Cardiff with her partner, who is also a published novelist.

Amy Lloyd

Amy McCulloch is a Chinese-White author, raised in Canada and based in London, England. Amy has been editorial director for Penguin Random House Children's, where she published Zoe's #1 international bestselling series Girl Online, and has written for YA and middle-grade readers in her series The Oathbreaker's Shadow, The Potion Diaries and Jinxed. When she's not writing, she can normally be found on top of a mountain.

Amy McCulloch

Amy McCulloch is the Chinese-White author of Breathless, an international bestseller and Waterstones Thriller of the Month selection. She has also written eight novels for children and young adults. She has climbed two of the world's highest mountains, completed an ultra-marathon in the Sahara Desert, and visited all seven continents, including Antarctica. Runner 13 is her third thriller.

Amy McCulloch is a Canadian living in London, who fits writing around work as an Editorial Director at one of the UK’s leading children’s publishers. She was bitten by the travel bug at an early age while accompanying her parents on buying trips around the world for their oriental carpet business. It was her love of travel that inspired her to set a novel in a hot, desert location (moving to freezing Ottawa, Canada, where her first winter hit -40 degrees C, might have had something to do with that, too). 
She studied Medieval and Old English literature at the University of Toronto.The sequel to The Oathbreaker’s Shadow, The Shadow’s Curse, is available now.

Amy Meredith

Amy Moorea Wong

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, mental strength trainer, internationally bestselling author, and the award-winning host of the Mentally Stronger With Therapist Amy Morin podcast. Her books on mental strength, including 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, have sold more than 1 million copies and been translated into more than 45 languages. She’s practiced therapy for over 20 years, and she’s a sought-after speaker whose TEDx talk, “The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong,” is one of the most viewed talks of all time with more than 24 million views. Amy lives on a sailboat in the Florida Keys.

Amy Morin

Amy Newsome

Amy Ng

I’m Amy, a mum, and the writer of the Surviving Motherhood blog. 
 
I’ve had three children, and each time has brought its own challenges and joys, because every child is different. 
 
So I created the The New Mum's Notebook and The Not-So-New Mum's Notebook to help every mum navigate the first few years of life with their baby, toddler and pre-schooler. 
 
In these two books you'll find everything I wish I’d known, so I could stop worrying and start enjoying – pages and pages of reassurance, love and support – as well as some space to scribble down thoughts, feelings and memories as you go. 
 
Much love, Amy 
 
PS It's all going to be OK. 
 
www.amyransom.com

Amy Ransom

Amy Sheppard is a busy mum of two boys, living in Buckinghamshire. Amy grew up in Cornwall and was taught to cook by her mum. There was never very much money, so the key was cooking great food on a budget, by shopping smart and using up leftovers. When Amy became a stay-at-home mum, the reduction in income meant that she had to be more frugal and imaginative in the way that she shopped and cooked. Returning to the cooking style she was brought up on, Amy began to develop simple budget recipes for her own family. 
 Her first book, The Savvy Shopper's Cookbook, was written with busy people in mind; enabling them to get everything they need from discount supermarkets, by providing simple, healthy meal ideas that don't cost the earth.

Amy Sheppard

Amy Sheppard is a food writer, social media influencer and mum of two boys. She writes recipes and creates videos for brands, including recent collaborations with Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Boursin and Pyrex. She has been featured in The Sunday Telegraph, ‘You’ Magazine, The Sun, The i Paper, Daily Express, The Stylist, The Guardian and many more. She is the author of The Savvy Shopper's Cookbook and HOB. @amysheppardfood

Amy Silver

Amy Smilovic is the founder and creative director of Tibi. She launched the brand with $15,000 and no formal fashion training in 1997 and today helms a company that is vastly different than the one she, or anyone in her industry, could have envisioned. She is the author of The Creative Pragmatist, a wife and mother of two sons, and describes herself as feeling content. Very content.

Amy Smilovic

Amy Sparkes was born in Eastbourne and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1999 with a degree in English Literature and Theology. After working for charities and the NHS for several years, Amy left work to raise a family and write whenever possible. She now lives in Devon with her husband and five young children. Amy is a passionate supporter of baby charities and donates a percentage of her royalties to various causes.

Amy Sparkes

Amy Stanley received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. During her graduate training, she spent years studying in Japan at Kansai University (Osaka) and Waseda University (Tokyo). She is now an associate professor of History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but Tokyo will always be her favourite city in the world. Stranger in the Shogun's City won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award.

Amy Stanley

Amy Stephenson

Amy Stuart

Amy Tan

Amy Thomson is the founder and CEO of the women's health app and tech service Moody. The successful Moody app, which is live in the UK and US, helps women harness the power their moods and hormone cycles. Amy is dedicated to finding personalised solutions for women's hormone cycles with a focus on EQ and tech built by women, for women.

Amy Thomson

Amy Tintera is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels for young adults. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages and sold into more than 20 territories. Listen for the Lie is her adult debut. 
 
She earned degrees in journalism and film and worked in Hollywood before becoming an author. Raised in Austin, Texas, she frequently sets her novels in the Lone Star state.

Amy Tintera

Amy Waldman

Amy Willcock

Amy Willesee

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing. She left at the age of eighteen to study in New York City. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English and lives in Hong Kong. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Braised Pork and Ghost Music.

An Yu

Born in Barcelona in 1925, Ana María Matute (d. 2014) began her career as a novelist in the late 1940s, quickly becoming established as one of the most significant literary voices of the Spanish post-war period. In spite of singularly harsh treatment by the Francoist censor - which described her as irreverent and immoral, banned her from engaging in journalistic activities, and forced her to alter or delay the publication of her writing for both adults and children - Matute's lyrical prose style and sensitive treatment of both conflict and childhood earned her both the Premio Nadal (for Primera memoria) and Spain's National Prize for Literature in 1959, a rare seat in the Real Academia Española in 1996, and the Spanish-speaking world's most coveted literary prize, the Premio Cervantes, in 2010. She is, to date, one of only four female authors to have received it.

Ana María Matute

Originally from Argentina, Anabella Cahwje now lives in Brighton, UK. She specialises in creating patterns and teaching the art of sewing, with a focus on using 100% wool felt. Through her work, she’s built a vibrant community where individuals can embrace their creativity and find joy in crafting.

Anabella Cahwje

Anam Iqbal is a debut author and her writing is inspired by her experiences growing up as a British Pakistani Muslim woman in London. She holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where her thesis explored the identity of British South Asians in contemporary London. In her spare time, you can find her swooning over romances on TikTok @anamiiqbal with her 44,000+ followers.

Anam Iqbal

Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All. He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award.

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Richard Sennett

Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring - and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated. 
 
The Craftsman shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals' pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials) which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognise this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.

The Craftsman

Hadley Freeman

In this funny, chic and wise book, award-winning fashion writer Hadley Freeman separates the nonsense from the fabulous and shows that falling in love with an It bag doesn't mean you have the IQ of an It girl. Ever the entertaining guide, Hadley shows how to wear shorts without looking like an extra in Hamlet, what to spend money on, and what not to, and why only harpists should wear velvet. And most of all, she shows that you don't need to be thin, young, tall or rich to enjoy fashion, you just need a sense of humour. If you've ever lusted after an improbably priced key ring, wondered why there's a large chunk of fashion that girls get but boys don't, got into an exuberant state at a party and left your 'clutch' bag in the ladies or spent fruitless hours worrying about what to wear on a date, this is the book for you.

The Meaning of Sunglasses

A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable

Clay Shirky

Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. 
 
The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it's here and, as Clay Shirky shows, it's affecting ... well, everybody. For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they're going to change our whole world.

Here Comes Everybody

How Change Happens when People Come Together

Ed Smith

Why will there never be another Bradman? 
 
How do you win 33 games in a row? 
 
Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage? 
 
Foraying deep into sport's leftfield, Ed smith asks the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. When is cheating really cheating? Is the free market good for sport? Can talent be a curse? Does luck matter? His answers, often controversial and always thought provoking, will delight anyone who has ever wondered why sport matters.

What Sport Tells Us About Life

In today's Britain thousands of people have parents from different cultural backgrounds.  In February 2008 we asked for people from any background to send us true stories which illuminate the complexities, challenges and joys of having a mixed heritage - those defining moments which seem to say it all.  Then we asked six judges - including the novelist Kate Mosse and Shami Chakrabati from Liberty - to choose the best, most searching accounts to be included in this anthology.  The resulting stories are as varied and colourful as they are true, honest and moving, but through all of them runs a universal theme: the desire to know and understand our own identity, and to forge a sense of self that surpasses the complex layers of places, parents and the past.

The Map of Me

True Tales of Mixed-Heritage Experience

Allan Hall

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. 
 
Based on 150 new interviews with psychologists, neighbours, colleagues and friends who knew Fritzl, as well as the insight of his own chilling confession, Allan Hall reconstructs the monstrous personality behind this hideous crime. He exposes Josef Fritzl's dark past in Nazi Austria, his previous conviction as a rapist, the appalling conditions in which Elisabeth and her children were kept and her astonishingly brave conduct while held prisoner. Including exclusive photographs and previously unseen evidence, this is a truly heart-stopping record of one of the most elaborate and disturbing cases of abuse in modern times.

Monster

Bill Crawford

A chilling catalogue of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price . . . 
 
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, the Lone Star State has put nearly 400 prisoners to death - far more than any other. Texas Death Row is a remarkable compendium of these condemned men and women, which starkly reveals details of their crimes, sentencing, last meals and last words. 
 
Macabre, unsettling and alarmingly compelling, Texas Death Row offers a disturbing glimpse behind the prison walls and into the grim realities of the execution chamber.

Texas Death Row

Shane Dunphy

Three heart-stopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts ... 
 
Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around his playschool, afraid he'll be hungry again. His parents are trying to make a fresh start, but their gangland bosses are about to catch up with the family and Craig will pay a terrible price... 
 
Edgar is a twelve-year-old boy who nobody wants, not even the staff at the residential unit where he lives. Just when it seems that there might be a way of getting through to Edgar, his mother reveals a secret that changes everything ... 
 
Vinnie is a teenage boy who knows exactly what his gangster father is capable of, of how he makes problems disappear. He also knows that he had become a very big problem for his father ... 
 
... One man's fight to give these children the future they deserve.

The Boy in the Cupboard

Henry Kamen

Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country. 
 
The Disinherited paints a vivid picture of Spain&rsquo;s diverse exiles, from Muslims, Jews and Protestants to Liberals, Socialists and Communists, artists, writers and musicians. Kamen describes the ways in which many of these expelled citizens have shaped Spanish culture &ndash; or impoverished it by leaving &ndash; and enriched their adopted homes through their creative responses to exile and to encounters with new worlds, Picasso, Mir&oacute;, Dali and Bu&ntilde;uel among them. Henry Kamen&rsquo;s compelling and sympathetic account tells the story of their incalculable impact on the world.

The Disinherited

The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture

Tom Vanderbilt

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tom Vanderbilt's informative work, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us), read by David Slavin. 
 
 
Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of society or an autonomous republic that functions according to its own set of rules? Does traffic work the same all over the world? Traffic Signals answers these and many other questions, plunging head-on into traffic, viewing it not simply as a social ill or as a design problem, but as a leading cultural indicator and a living, organic model of what physicists call 'emergent collective behavior', of things which often happen for no discernible reason... 
Downloadable audiobook edition. Running time approx 6 hours. Abridged.

Traffic

Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us)

Jacqueline Simpson

Jennifer Westwood

Shiver at the story of the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square no one has survived seeing. 
 
Listen for the tapping cane, when Jeremy Bentham&rsquo;s mummified body walks through the corridors of University College. 
 
Watch out for the Roman centurion who still patrols the causeway linking Mersea Island to Essex. 
 
Shudder at the ghosts of kings and queens that keep returning to their old home at Windsor. 
 
Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting presages fatal accidents. 
 
England&rsquo;s history echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, of premonitions of death and indelible blood-stains. Here, county by county and place by place, Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson gather together all the most interesting supernatural tales from The Lore of the Land. From a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to landlords&rsquo; appeals against rates (because no one will rent their haunted house), from the phantom hitchhiker of the Blackwall Tunnel to Francis Drake&rsquo;s drum summoning him when England is in danger, these fascinating and unforgettable stories are part of our legendary past &ndash; and present.

The Penguin Book of Ghosts

Haunted England

P. D. Smith

It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. 
 
This is the untold story of the Cold War&rsquo;s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity&rsquo;s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture, from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself have both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams.

Doomsday Men

The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon

Ruth Harris

Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine.   Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit.  Since the &lsquo;visions&rsquo; of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a site for controversy.  In her well-crafted and carefully researched book, Harris deftly places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country&rsquo;s development.

Lourdes

Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

Elie Wiesel

Marion Wiesel

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor&rsquo;s perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

Night

Orlando Figes

Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

The Whisperers

Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Albert Jack

'Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool? The man with the answers is Albert Jack...' - Daily Express 
 
From Walt Disney's frozen head to the kidnap of JFK's brain, Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. But this is more than just a collection of urban legends, it is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of history and the assumptions of old wives&rsquo; tales, Albert Jack shows us that the truth can definitely be stranger than fiction&hellip;

Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks

The strange stories behind the urban legends we can't stop telling each other

Dana Thomas

Fashion may be fabulous, but what price true luxury? With incredible access to the glamorous world of the luxury brand, Deluxe goes deep inside the workings of today&rsquo;s world of profit margins and market share to discover the fate of real luxury. From the importance of fashion owners, to red carpet stars and the seasonal &lsquo;must-have&rsquo; handbags, Dana Thomas shows how far illustrious houses have moved from their roots. Thomas witnesses how these &lsquo;luxury&rsquo; handbags are no longer one in a million, discovers why luxury brand clothing doesn&rsquo;t last as long, and finds out just who is making your perfume. 
 
From terrifying raids on the Chinese sweat shops to the daunting chic of Paris workshops, from the handcrafting and economics of early-twentieth century designers to the violent truth behind the &lsquo;harmless&rsquo; fakes, Deluxe goes deep into the world of extravagance, and asks: where can true luxury go now?

Deluxe

How Luxury Lost its Lustre

Alison Light

Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants &ndash; cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write. 
 
Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf&rsquo;s extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s greatest writers.

Mrs Woolf and the Servants

Frederick Jackson Turner

This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation&rsquo;s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which &ndash; for better or worse &ndash; lies at the heart of American identity today. 
 
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves &ndash; and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives &ndash; and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

William Morris

Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings &ndash; no matter what their class. 
 
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves &ndash; and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives &ndash; and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Useful Work v. Useless Toil

David Nasaw

Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called &quot;a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst,&quot; brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists&mdash;in what will prove to be the biography of the season. 
 
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public&mdash;a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism&mdash;Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma. 
 
Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. 
 
With a trove of new material&mdash;unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain&mdash;Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this facinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can.

Andrew Carnegie

Helen Epstein

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed first-hand the suffering caused by the HIV virus. The Invisible Cure, dramatic, illuminating and beautifully written, recounts the struggle of international health experts, governments and ordinary Africans to understand the devastating spread of HIV in Africa, and traces how their responses to the crisis have changed in light of new medical developments and political realities. 
 
The AIDS epidemic in Africa is uniquely severe, but Epstein argues that there are ways to address this crisis that may be simpler than many people imagine. A deeply affecting story of scientific breakthroughs and false starts, and of the human costs of policymakers' missteps and inaction, The Invisible Cure will change the way we think about AIDS, a disease without precedent.

The Invisible Cure

Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS

Felicity Lawrence

Why is it... 
 
That almost all the processed foods we eat contain the same handful of ingredients?That these handful of ingredients are produced by only a handful of multi-nationals? 
 
That some cereals contain more salt per serving than a packet of crisps?That served with milk, sugar and raisins, some cardboard packets have been said to be more nutritious than the cereal they contain? 
 
That there are half the number of dairy farms in the UK than there were 10 years ago?That over the same period the turnover of the top 20 global dairy corporations has increased by 60%? 
 
That over 60% of all processed foods in Britain contain soya?That the UK government's Committee on the Toxicity of Food judged that eating soya could have hormone-disrupting effects? 
 
That in 1970, a hundred grams of an average chicken contained less than 9 grams of fat, but today it contains nearly 23 grams of fat?That the amount of protein in that chicken has fallen by more than 30%? 
 
That children aged 4-14 in the UK get 16-17% of their daily calories from processed sugars?That the World Health Organisation's recommended limit is 10%? 
 
That industrialised farming uses 50 times more energy than traditional farming?That livestock farming creates greater carbon emissions than all of global transport put together?That some salmon farmers dye their fish?That sugar could be as bad for you as tobacco?That you might have been better off eating butter rather than margarine all along?That industrial processing removes much of the nutritional value of the food it produces?That by changing our diets we could reduce cancers by a third?That corporations are shaping our bodies, our minds and the future of the planet? 
 
Eat Your Heat Out explains how big business took control of what we eat &ndash; and why so few of us even noticed. Crossing the globe in search of agribusiness's darkest secrets, Felicity Lawrence uncovers some startling facts and stomach-churning figures. Essential reading for anyone who cares about their health and our planet.

Eat Your Heart Out

Why the food business is bad for the planet and your health

Mark J. Penn

Should cars now come with matching lipsticks? Why is the number of left-handers increasing? And where are all the tattoo boutiques? 
 
Welcome to the surprising world of microtrends, where Snowed-Under Slobs are increasing in number &ndash; but so are Extreme Commuters; where teenagers are becoming millionaire businessmen &ndash; even though their contemporaries are planning careers as snipers; and where older woman are bagging all the young men &ndash; whilst also bagging all the video games. Microtrends is the story of the small groups that are causing big changes in our lives today. It&rsquo;s about how different we are to each other, and how wrong our own expectations can be. And how the end of uniformity could actually be the answer to our problems&hellip;

Microtrends

Surprising Tales of the way We Live Today

Virginia Nicholson

In 1919 a generation of young women discovered that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go round, and the statistics confirmed it. After the 1921 Census, the press ran alarming stories of the 'Problem of the Surplus Women - Two Million who can never become Wives...'. This book is about those women, and about how they were forced, by a tragedy of historic proportions, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity and their future happiness.

Singled Out

How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

Ed Glinert

The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists.  They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries.  The exploits of these and many other colourful characters are recounted in Ed Glinert's latest volume.  Packed with atmospheric incident and detail, it's a treasure trove of stories of the people, places and events at the hub of the world's most exciting city.

West End Chronicles

300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London

Matt Mason

What&rsquo;s the connection between the nun who invented disco, and the effect of file sharing? How does hip-hop manage to be an underground movement and a multi-billion dollar business - at the same time? And how are pirates, of the kind who started commercial radio in the twentieth century, changing society in the 21st? 
 
The Pirate&rsquo;s Dilemma tells the stories of youth culture uncovering, for the first time, what it is that transforms underground scenes into global industries. Matt Mason, successful entrepreneur, argues that that from youth `culture, out on the edges of the mainstream, come the ideas that ultimately change the mainstream itself &ndash; whether it&rsquo;s graffiti, piracy, hacking, open source culture or remixing. In the course of doing so he unravels some of our most basic assumptions about business and society and pinpoints trends to look out for in our future. 
 
Because right now, everyone, from the ceo of a mainstream company to a teenager wanting to start the next youth culture revolution, is struggling with a new dilemma: that we can all &ndash; companies and individuals alike &ndash; be pirates now. And as piracy increasingly changes the way we find, use and sell information, how should we respond? Do we fight pirates, or do we learn from them? Should piracy be treated as a problem, or a whole new solution?

The Pirate's Dilemma

How hackers, punk capitalists, graffiti millionaires and other youth movements are remixing our culture and changing our world

Jay Griffiths

'I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. I anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies. I found a paradox of wildness in the glinting softness of its charisma, for what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle and what is wild is kind. In the end - a strangely sweet result - I came back to a wild home' 
 
Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It is by turns funny, touching and harrowing, and offers a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands. Wild won the inaugural Orion Book Award for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Orwell prize and for the World Book Day award.

Wild

An Elemental Journey

Hsiao-Hung Pai

You know the people in this book. 
 
You&rsquo;ll remember the harassed waitress from your local Chinese restaurant. You&rsquo;ve noticed those builders across the street working funny hours and without helmets. You&rsquo;ve eaten the lettuce they picked, or bought the microwave they assembled. The words &lsquo;cockle-pickers&rsquo;, &lsquo;Morecambe Bay&rsquo;, &lsquo;Chinese illegals found dead in lorry&rsquo; will ring a bell. 
 
But did you know that there are hundreds of thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain? They&rsquo;ve travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. 
 
Hsiao-Hung Pai, the only journalist who knows this community, went undercover to hear the stories of this hidden work force. She reveals a scary, shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways unimaginable in our civilized twenty-first century. 
 
CHINESE WHISPERS exposes the truth behind the lives of a hidden work force here in Britain. You owe it to yourself, and them, to read it.

Chinese Whispers

The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour

Five heart-stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children ... 
 
Clive, a thirteen-year-old victim of terrifying demonic visions, tells frightening stories of abuse and imprisonment. Could they be genuine? 
 
Patrick, twelve, bravely setting out to find the truth about his birth family - however painful it may be ... 
 
Six-year-old Johnny, tiny and undernourished, desperately tries to recover from a brain-injury inflicted by his drunken and violent father ... 
 
At fourteen, Katie is so aggressive that the authorities have put her in special care, away from other children. What could be the cause of such fury? 
 
And in a grim island prison, a lumbering bully ponders his crimes against his twin children, Larry and Francey - while his sadistic and conniving wife, the real monster behind his actions, tries to fool the state into returning the traumatised boy and girl to her care.

Hush, Little Baby

Second Sons

Second World War Voices

Secret Beast Club

Secrets

Seduction of Valentine Day

Seeing Stars

Seeker

Seth's Ghost Stories

Shadow Forest

Shadows & Crowns

Shakespeare Retold

Shakespeare’s Mistress

Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Shark Wars

Shield of Sparrows

Shoot Football Legends

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and hope they'll disappear. 
Becky just can't stop shopping, whether it's stocking up on 3 for 2 offers, or buying an essential grey cardigan, or falling in lust with a pair of dreamy shoes. 
She knows she has to stop. Her bank manager is sending her sterner and sterner letters, her credit cards are being declined, her Mum and Dad have no idea . . . what is she going to do? 
Will Becky ever take control of her life, find love and regain the use of her credit card? 
The Shopaholic series begins with The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella.

Shopaholic

Norway 785 AD. It began with the betrayal of a lord by a king . . . 
King Gorm puts Jarl Harald's family to the sword, but makes one fatal mistake - he fails to kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd. His kin slain, his village seized and its people taken as slaves, Sigurd wonders if the gods have forsaken him. Hunted by powerful men, he is unsure who to trust and yet he has a small band of loyal followers at his side. This Viking series follows Sigurd's quest for vengeance.

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