Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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Jonathan Caplan

The most serious and sourced book ever published on the subject of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), previously known as UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). Written by one of the UK’s most high-profile and well-respected barristers who has researched the issue for 50 years 
 
For five decades, Jonathan Caplan KC (King’s Counsel) has been pulling together an extraordinary body of evidence about the existence of UAPs, and what he believes to be the world’s greatest ever cover up. Public perception of the UAP issue changed radically in July 2023 when David Grusch – a former Air Force intelligence officer – went public to US Congress under oath on live television that the United States was in possession of crashed non-human craft. His evidence ignited huge interest around the world. Pressure is mounting for the full story to be told, and Not For Disclosure is a landmark book on a subject that the public can no longer ignore. 
 
In his quest for the full story, Caplan has travelled over the years to meet inside sources, including scientists, politicians, intelligence officers and ex special forces, in Washington, Israel and elsewhere. He has collated a vast amount of material from those in official positions who have trusted him and who have been prepared to talk confidentially about the subject. Over the last fifty years he has met and befriended most of the key individuals. His book is a detailed, up to date and in many ways shocking account of this fundamental and disturbing subject. It pulls together the strands of the phenomenon. It raises the debate. 
 
The book includes significant new material including information about JFK and also about secret meetings held by President Truman and Secretary Forrestal. There will also be important and previously unpublished documents from the ‘Majestic 12’ group as well as striking new photos.

Not For Disclosure

UFOS: The World's Best Kept Secret

Duncan Ferguson

They don't make footballers - and football autobiographies - like this any more. The brutally honest, riotously entertaining story of the much-loved Everton legend and iconic Premier League bad boy. 
 
Praised by Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson as one of the greatest and most passionate players to ever play the game, Duncan Ferguson, or Big Dunc as he is known, is larger than life in every sense. Measuring a towering 6 feet 4 inches in height, from the moment the striker emerged in British football in the 1990s, he was front and back page news. On the pitch, fans loved Duncan for his roguish charm, his thrilling goals and his total commitment in every game. Fighting tooth and nail, he was a born leader and took no prisoners. Like his rival Roy Keane, he played close to the limit, and often crossed it. Such as the time he was sentenced to 3 months in Glasgow’s toughest prison for headbutting an opponent – the first and only time a footballer has ever gone to jail for a crime committed on a football pitch. 
 
In BIG DUNC: The Upfront Autobiography, Duncan reveals, for the first time, the full story: the truth about his experiences in prison, his partying with African princes and Liverpool gangsters, his fighting with burglars, his making and losing a fortune, and how he turned his life around through his beloved Everton F.C.. In the process, the book sheds light on one of football’s most charismatic but notorious and enigmatic hardmen. Duncan has also been a manager and a coach. He is a pillar of the community in Merseyside, giving back to stricken children who share a similar tough upbringing to his own. Duncan's book takes readers on a rollercoaster ride of humour, drama and redemption. Buckle up.

BIG DUNC

The Upfront Autobiography

Tim Curry

The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT. 
 
Actor, rock ‘n’ roll singer, the prince of Halloween, confusing sex symbol. Many labels have been given to the inimitable Tim Curry over the years. All are true, and yet none are quite right. 
 
Here, for the first time, Curry reveals the raucous and true story of the man who has captivated audiences on stage and screen for over 50 years. 
 
From iconic roles as Frank N Furter, Wadsworth, and Pennywise the Clown, to brushes with the likes of Ian McKellen, Andy Warhol and even Kermit the Frog, Vagabond is a fascinating and riotous portrait of one the most enigmatic performers of our time.

Vagabond

Jasper Rees

A major and definitive portrait of Sir Michael Gambon, one of the greatest actors of the last fifty years who died in 2023 
 
Jasper Rees, the acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author of Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood, interviewed Gambon more than any other journalist alive, and has been granted exclusive access to Gambon’s personal archive and effects. Rees is in the process of conducting over one hundred interviews with actors, playwrights and directors who across a career that spanned more than half a century were witness to some of Gambon’s most magnificent performances, including Penelope Wilton, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, David Hare, Judi Dench, Christopher Hampton, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Eyre, Patricia Hodge, Simon Callow, Stephen Poliakoff and his closest friend in theatre, Oliver Cotton. 
 
The biography spans Gambon’s epoch-defining roles on stage, television and screen: the early years as a spear-carrier in Laurence Olivier’s newly formed National Theatre, his pre-eminence as an interpreter of Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn, the triumphs in The Life of Galileo and A View from the Bridge, the screen roles that won him global fame, from Philip Marlow in The Singing Detective to Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. It promises to be a deeply personal, moving and surprising book that will enrich our understanding of an acting legend who was as hilarious and elusive off stage – renowned for spinning mischievously tall tales – as he was mesmerising and chameleon-like on stage.

Michael Gambon

The Authorised Biography

Darren Walsh

Darren Walsh, the UK’s first Pun Champion™ and the comedy circuit's Tallest Comedian™, debuts his first and greatest joke book encompassing four misspent years of scribbling and doodling. The punderful winner of the funiest joke of the 2015 Edinburgh festival. 
 
Look upon these works and despair and/or giggle: 
 
I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free. 
 
Went to my allotment and found that there was twice as much soil as there was the week before. The plot thickens. 
 
Green men make me cross 
 
’My nephew would like to borrow your Toy Story costume.’ 
‘Oh, Woody?’ 
 
If Catwoman decided to go to Nepal, what would Catman do? 
 
Got a free chimney the other day. It was on the house. 
 
K e v i n (Kevin Spacey)

Cheep Laughs

Christopher Simon Sykes

The astounding first volume, exploring the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in Britain today. 
 
As seen in Drawing From Life exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, 2023 
 
David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five decades. His story is one of precocious achievement at Bradford Art College, the Swinging 60s in London where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation, to California and the cool of the swimming pool series of paintings, through the acclaimed set designs for countless operas around the world and major retrospective exhibitions at The Tate and The Royal Academy of Art. 
 
With unprecedented access to interviews, family and friends and Hockney's own notebooks and paintings, this volume will deliver an honest and revelatory account of the man who many believe to be Britain's greatest living artist.

Hockney: The Biography Volume 1

As seen in Drawing From Life exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, 2023 
 
In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist. 
 
David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the past five decades. Volume 1 covered his early life: his precocious achievement at Bradford Art College and the Swinging 60s in London, where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this volume finds him flitting between Notting Hill and California, where he took inspiration for the swimming pool series of paintings; creating the acclaimed set designs for operas around the world; and embracing emerging technologies – the camera and fax machine in the 1970s and 80s, and most recently the iPad. Hockney's boundless energy extends to his personal life too, and this volume illuminates the glamorous circles he moved in, as well as his sometimes turbulent relationships. 
 
With unprecedented access to Hockney's paintings, notebooks, diaries and the man himself, this second volume continues the lively and revelatory account of an acclaimed artist and an extraordinary man.

Hockney: The Biography Volume 2

Iain Banks

New introduction by Ian Rankin 
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‘One of the most playful and entertaining writers of our generation’ 
Val McDermid, Guardian 
 
 In an absorbing voyage as interesting to non-drinkers as to true whisky connoisseurs, sci-fi and literary author Iain Banks explores the rich heritage of Scottish whisky, from the most famous distilleries to the most obscure operations. 
 
 Whisky is more than a drink: it's a culture that binds together people, places and products far across Scotland's rugged terrain. Switching from cars to ferries to bicycles, Banks criss-crosses his homeland, weaving an engrossing narrative full of fascinating traditions, peculiar people, and the downright bizarre places he encounters on his journey down Scotland's great golden road. 
 
'The book I return to most often . . . It's is like slipping into a warm bath.' 
James Graham, THE TIMES (playwright and creator of ITV's Quiz) 
 
'Filled withinsightful and witty observations . . . this is a rip-roaringand informative delve into the unique history and enduring appeal of this iconic spirit.' 
VISIT SCOTLAND, 9 'must read' books

Raw Spirit

In Search of the Perfect Dram

Diana Gabaldon

World War II nurse Claire Randall finds herself transported back to 1743 where she meets young Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser, and the two travel from Scotland to America taking part in some of the most momentous events of the time.

FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE JAMIE MET CLAIRE IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW OUTLANDER SHORT STORY. 
 
1740: Young Jamie Fraser has left Scotland and, with his best friend Ian Murray, is running with a band of mercenaries in France. 
 
Both men have good reason not to go back to their homeland: both are nursing wounds, and despite their best efforts to remedy the situation, both are still virgins. 
 
So when a Jewish doctor hires them to escort his granddaughter to Paris, they readily agree. Both men are instantly drawn to the beautiful young lady. 
 
What neither know is that their lives and their friendships are about to become infinitely more complicated - and a lot more dangerous ...

Virgins

An Outlander Short Story

Ken Rideout

‘A lesson in staying alive… Ken Rideout’s life story is extraordinary not just for what he’s achieved, but for how deeply it reflects the struggles we all face.’ Andrew Huberman 
 ‘Unputdownable…one of the most compelling, improbable, and motivating tales of metamorphosis I’ve ever read.’ Rich Roll, host of the Rich Roll podcast and author of Finding Ultra 
 ‘Raw, riveting, and deeply human…will leave you inspired to face and outlast your life battles.’ Sahil Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Types of Wealth_________________________________________________ 
Born into a broken family just outside of Boston, Ken Rideout grew up in a household persistently scarred by drugs and crime. At just eighteen, he found himself working as a guard in a prison where his stepfather had been incarcerated, and his brother would later serve time. Despite the bleak expectations set by his family, Ken harboured dreams far beyond the confines of his upbringing. 
Ken eventually broke free from the gritty streets of his youth to the high-stakes world of Wall Street, where he carved out a successful career. Yet, beneath the veneer of success, he battled a decade-long addiction to opioids, spending his hard-earned wealth on pills. The turning point came with the adoption of a daughter from overseas—a wake-up call to become the father and man he always dreamed of being. 
Running became Ken’s salvation. With unwavering determination, he willed himself to run vast distances. In three years, Ken transformed from a ‘running nobody’ to the world’s fastest marathoner over fifty. His mantra: Win—or die trying. In the book, Ken shares his awe-inspiring achievements, including, at age fifty-two, winning the Masters (50+) Marathon World Championships in Chicago and conquering the Gobi March ultra-marathon, one of the world’s toughest races. Through sheer resilience and grit, Ken rewrote his story. By publishing this book, he will now help readers to re-write their story too.

Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard

Lorraine Kelly

'This is an utter tonic. Lorraine at her most honest; a genuinely helpful book' DAWN FRENCH 
 
'I love this book!' DAVINA MCCALL 
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Lorraine has been a fixture on our TV screens for 35 years and is beloved by thousands for her warmth and down-to-earth interviewing style. Whatever life throws at her, she always manages to keep that signature twinkle in her eye. Now, she's ready to share her life lessons. 
 
There's a lot to keep up with nowadays: family, home, work, social media, the news... It's all too easy for days go by in a blur and before you know it, you're exhausted and the year has passed in the blink of an eye. 
 
Despite her hectic schedule, Lorraine has learned how important it is to listen to your body and your heart, and to take control of your life. Whether making small changes to your daily routine or overhauling your lifestyle and achieving those bucket-list goals, Shine will show you how to live every day to the fullest. Let Lorraine guide you on the journey to your best self with candid anecdotes from her own life, tips from the experts and practical exercises. You'll learn how to: 
 
- Spark: how to stay positive, confident and calm whatever life throws at you. 
- Glow: encouragement and strategies for keeping your body healthy and your look fresh, whatever your age. 
- Dazzle: how to get the best out of your relationships, family and work and make a difference to the world, even if it's just your patch. 
 
Uplifting, warm, and with beautiful hand-painted illustrations, Shine is a self-help book told from the heart.

Shine

Discover a Brighter You

Jonathan Kellerman

The gripping new crime novel featuring Alex Delaware from the bestselling master of suspense. 
 
When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table – with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene – psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it’s an open-and-shut case. 
 
But the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him? 
 
Many miles away, a former LAPD officer is found brutally murdered in her garage. Her co-workers knew her as meticulously organized, but her house is full of junk and meaningless objects – except for the envelopes full of cash hidden within the chaos… 
 
But as Alex and Milo dig deeper, they discover shocking links between the victims. It soon becomes clear they have a complicated – and deadly – puzzle to solve. 
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Praise for Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times No. 1 bestselling thrillers: 
 
'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'High-octane entertainment' The Times 
 
'Exceptionally exciting' New York Times 
 
'Jonathan Kellerman has delivered the goods again, adding another instalment to a series that shows no sign of running out of stea' Shots Magazine 
 
 
Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times bestseller, February 2024

Jigsaw

Sophie Irwin

A family in crisis, a fortune at stake, will she risk it all for love? 
 
The first - and only - authorised Georgette Heyer continuation novel, written by internationally bestselling author Sophie Irwin. 
 
Henrietta has secretly loved her best friend Arthur, Lord Allerton, since childhood. He’s the only man who’s interested in her, rather than just her fortune. Just not in the way she wants. 
 
After three years away at war, Arthur has returned to London to find everything changed. His finances are ruined, his family in chaos. And sweet, shy Hetty is… different. 
 
Because Hetty’s set herself a challenge: she has one year to become the charming, outgoing Diamond she’s always wished to be. And either Arthur will notice her, or she’ll give up her dreams entirely. 
 
But in a Season when his family is plagued by scandal and hers by intrigue, will either of them find time to give true love a chance…? 
 
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers' Independent 
'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris 
'Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella

Henrietta

Siba Shakib

Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the women and children to the capital, Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in her war-torn country. A life that includes a period living in the harsh conditions of a Pakistani refugee camp, being forced into a marriage to pay off her brother's gambling debts, selling her body and begging for the money to feed her growing family, an attempted suicide, and an unsuccessful endeavour to leave Afghanistan for Iran after the Taliban seized control of her country.   Told truthfully and with unflinching detail to writer and documentary-maker Siba Shakib, and incorporating some of the shocking experiences of Shirin-Gol's friends and family members, this is the story of the fate of many of the women in Afghanistan. But it is also a story of great courage, the moving story of a proud woman, a woman who did not want to be banished to a life behind the walls of her house, or told how to dress, who wanted an education for her children so that they could have a chance of a future, to live their lives without fear and poverty. .

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

Tim Vine

The hilarious joke book from the Punslinger, Tim Vine, the undisputed king of the one-liner. 
 
The irrepressible, hysterical, puntastical Tim Vine, star of stage and screen, treats all of us here in his first joke book. Packed full of zingers and hilarious illustrations, if this doesn't put a smile on your face, nothing will. What's not to like: 
 
The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it. 
 
I'm against hunting. I'm actually a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. 
 
I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one. 
 
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. 
 
So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.' 
 
Velcro. What a rip-off. 
 
Black Beauty. He's a dark horse. 
 
I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.

The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book

James Patterson

Teaching is among the most admirable professions. 
 
However, today’s teachers face unprecedented challenges – from limited funding to book banning. In classrooms across the world, teachers demonstrate resilience and ingenuity as they dedicate their lives to improving those of future generations. 
 
Featuring a range of first-hand accounts, James Patterson explores the creative and noble work of teachers across America. 
 
While the future may be in doubt, one thing is certain. Teachers change students’ lives.__________________________________ 
 
PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON 
 
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD 
 
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN 
 
'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 
 
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 
 
'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN

Thank You, Teachers

Jesse Kellerman

The electric new Clay Edison thriller from the New York Times bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write 'brilliant, page-turning fiction' (Stephen King). 
 
Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. 
 
He’s perfectly happy investigating calm, low-stakes embezzlement cases - that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a case only he can solve. 
 
Adam Valois, the missing son of a wealthy Los Gatos couple, was found floating dead in the Bay with a head injury and drugs in his system. The police have lost interest, ruling it a likely overdose. 
 
But as Clay digs deeper into Adam’s mysterious death, he begins to suspect darker forces are at play . . . 
 
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 Praise for Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times No. 1 bestselling thrillers: 
 
'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'High-octane entertainment' The Times 
 
'Exceptionally exciting' New York Times 
 
'Jonathan Kellerman has delivered the goods again, adding another instalment to a series that shows no sign of running out of steam' Shots Magazine

Coyote Hills

Libby Jackson

From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some surprising roles in between. 
 
From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century, to the women behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to those blazing the way in the race to get to Mars, A Galaxy of Her Own reveals extraordinary stories, champions unsung heroes and celebrates remarkable achievements from around the world. 
 
Written by Libby Jackson, a leading UK expert in human space flight, and illustrated with bold and beautiful artwork from the students of London College of Communication, this is a book to delight and inspire trailblazers of all ages. 
 
Packed full of both amazing female role models and mind-blowing secrets of space travel, A Galaxy of Her Own is guaranteed to make any reader reach for the stars.

A Galaxy of Her Own

Amazing Stories of Women in Space

Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson must divide and conquer when they’re sent to investigate two serious crimes. 
 
In Washington DC, John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a street and calls in the bomb squad for a suspected terrorist attack. 
 
In North Carolina, Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student – his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father’s footsteps made Damon a target? 
 
From FBI headquarters to police stations, airplanes to murder scenes, the detectives track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart. 
 
It will take more than distance to weaken their unstoppable partnership. 
 
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PRAISE FOR THE ALEX CROSS SERIES 
 
'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN 
 
'Patterson never, and I mean never, disappoints' USA TODAY 
 
'Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it' LEE CHILD 
 
'Alex Cross... only gets better and better' LISA SCOTTOLINE 
 
'[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages' DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD

Cross and Sampson

From the greatest thriller writer comes a new novel in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series... 
 
In New York City, someone has planted a series of deadly bombs. 
 
In New Jersey, the National Guard is looted for explosives. 
 
In Montana, arson and murder rocks a quiet town. 
 
Two enigmatic brothers keep turning up in the wrong places. 
 
They insist they’re trying to make the world a better place. 
 
But with lives hanging in the balance, Detective Michael Bennett is called to investigate. 
 
Can he solve the case before their delusions lead to a nationwide disaster? 
 
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PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON 
 
'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better.' JEFFERY DEAVER 
 
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD 
 
'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
 
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN 
 
'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 
 
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 
 
'Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried ... there's no stopping his imagination' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 
 
'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN

Delusional

Eva zu Beck

Eva has it all: a high-flying job, a picture-perfect marriage, a lifestyle that many would aspire to. Yet she can’t shake the feeling that she is living someone else’s dream. After hitting rock bottom, she buys a one-way ticket to Nepal and leaves her old life behind in search of her true path in life. 
 
Over the next few years, Eva travels solo to some of the world’s most far-flung places. A lone horse trek in Mongolia, COVID lockdown on a desert island in Yemen and overlanding across the US in an 18-year-old truck. She grows an online community and finds love where she wasn’t looking. But the shift from a rooted life to a transient one is far from straightforward and Eva grapples with the tension between her wanderlust and a longing for somewhere to call home. 
 
This book is the world-expanding memoir of Eva journeying through the world on her own terms – and inspiring example of what awaits when you take the wilder path.

The Wilder Way

A Memoir of Adventure, Freedom, and an Unchartered Life

Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. Now Gabaldon serves up The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two, an all-new guide to Books 5-8 in the series: A Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood 
 
Written with Gabaldon’s signature wit and intelligence, this compendium is bursting with generous commentary and juicy insider details, including: 
 
* A complete chronology of the series thus far; 
* Full synopses of A Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood; 
* Recaps of the Lord John Grey novels: Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; 
* A who’s who of the cast of Outlander characters, cross-referenced by book; 
* Detailed maps and floor plans; 
* A bibliographic guide to research sources; 
* Essays on subjects as wide ranging as Outlandish controversies regarding sex and violence, the unique responsibilities of a writer of historical fiction, and Gabaldon’s writing process; 
* A guided tour of the clothes, food, and music of the eighteenth century; 
* A Scottish glossary and pronunciation guide; 
* Personal photos from the author taken on the set of the Outlander series. 
 
As entertaining, sweeping, and addictive as the series itself, this second volume of The Outlandish Companion is a one (or two)-of-a-kind gift from an incomparable author.

The Outlandish Companion Volume 2

Dan Walsh

"Riding a bike removes the need for clutter, toys, rubbish that other men have to take on holiday. If I want adrenaline, I'll rush a giddy overtake, not rent a jet ski." 
 
The world through the eyes of Dan Walsh is never less than Technicolor, and always uninhibited, rebellious and on the edge. Not since the days of Jupiter's Travels has one man embarked on such an angry, narcotic-fuelled bike trek around the world. 
 
"For me, Chile will always be South America's supermodel sister - very beautiful but too long, too skinny, and too expensive to ride, and despite the groovy exterior, unpleasantly right-wing underneath." 
 
Dan has travelled the length and breadth of the world on his BMW F650 GS Dakar. Along the way he's visited Buenos Aires, where 'revolutionary' means the angry poor invading the presidential palace, not a really small phone that's also a camera. He's been mistaken for a bum in New York, bashed by deadly tequila in Mexico, contracted typhoid in a dilapidated Bolivian hotel, and visited The Most Beautiful Road in the World in Peru. 
 
"I get my bum pinched by a tranny, my pocket picked by a grifter and get a gun pulled on me by a one-eyed, one-armed midget who's upset cause I winked at him. These are the days that must happen to you." 
 
Soaked in adrenaline and coruscatingly funny, Dan Walsh is the rightful heir to Ted Simon as the pre-eminent biker-rebel of our generation.

These Are the Days that Must Happen to You

Holly Smale

If you could see your future, how would you live now?'Utterly joyous' Prima 
 
'Irresistibly charming, heartbreakingly hopeful, and downright hilarious' Catherine Walsh 
 
'Fabulously original' The Sun 
 
Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she’s wilfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living in total chaos. 
 
Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she’s never met before. She doesn’t believe in fate. But when Margot meets single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she’d foreseen it. 
 
As her future continues to reveal itself, a glimpse at a time, Margot realises she knows exactly what’s going to happen, and when. And there’s nothing she can do to change any of it. 
 
So Margot has to decide how to live, how to love again, and how to be herself… Because if you can’t change your destiny, how on earth do you live your present? 
 
'Funny and tender, full of joy… a clever, surprising look at how our future selves can help us find out who we are.' Catriona Silvey 
 
‘A true delight from cover to cover' Charlotte Butterfield 
 
'Holly Smale never fails to make me laugh.' Daisy Buchanan 
 
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Praise for Holly Smale: 
 
'A time-twisting delight' REESE WITHERSPOON 
'Utterly brilliant!' ZOE BALLLI 
'Everyone should read it and everyone will love it' LINDSEY KELK 
'Totally absorbing' GRAEME SIMSION 
'Sharp, funny, quirky, insightful and so very, very relatable' JOANNE HARRIS 
'Hilarious and heartwarming' WOMAN'S OWN 
'Gut-warmingly funny' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH 
'Truly original novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 
'Very clever' IRISH EXAMINER 
'IWonderful' DAILY MAIL 
'This is THE book for anyone who has ever wished life came with an undo button' SOPHIE IRWIN 
'Smart [and] funny' THE TIMES 
'A triumph' SUN 
'Clever [and] unusual' DAILY EXPRESS 
'Brilliantly clever' SARAH HAYWOOD 
'A witty read' SUN ON SUNDAY 
'Utterly joyous'

I Know How This Ends

Katie Flynn

Scotland, 1940: Isla Donaghue is just sixteen when her mother dies, and her idyllic life comes to an abrupt end. Unable to cope, Isla’s father sends her to the poorhouse when he joins the merchant navy. 
 
Horrified at the harsh conditions of the poorhouse, Isla is determined to escape. Enlisting the help of her newfound friends Meg and Sophie, she devises a plan to flee to Liverpool. 
 
Despite the difficulties of her new life and the dangers of the Luftwaffe, Isla falls in love for the first time. But her beau is not all that he seems… Will true love prevail or will secrets from the past put an end to their happiness? 
 
Why readers love Katie Flynn . . . 
 
'Takes you on a journey of heartbreak and joy' 
'Hard to put down' 
'Her characters are like old friends' 
'Heartwarming romance'

Forgotten Child

Susan Patterson

Four old friends. One life-changing trip. 
 
It’s been three years since best friends Elin, Grace, Mariella and Jamie got together with their daughters for a book club night that would change their lives forever. 
 
Now, they travel to the breathtaking shores of Lake Como, Italy, to reunite for the first time since that fateful evening. 
 
Amid the idyllic landscape, sumptuous food and dog-eared pages of their favourite books, it becomes clear that the women are all keeping secrets from each other. 
 
What really happened all those years ago? And will the power of love and literature finally help them to let go? 
 
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PRAISE FOR SUSAN AND JAMES PATTERSON 
 
'This book will win your heart!' - Elin Hilderbrand

The Mother Daughter Book Club

Prince

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
A Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 
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'A triumph ... a masterclass in the bottling of its subject’s seductive essence. His presence in this book is so strong that it’s hard to believe he has really left the building' 
MOJO 
 
'Handsomely presented, visually sumptuous' 
THE TIMES 
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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. 
 
 Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in pop history. But he wasn't only a musician—he was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of his early records to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of Paisley Park. But his greatest creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, the greatest pop star of his era. 
 
 The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is composed of the memoir he was writing before his tragic death, pages that brings us into Prince's childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us into Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album released, through a scrapbook of Prince's writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that take us up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince's self-creation, as he retells the autobiography we've seen in the first three parts as a heroic journey. 
 
 The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with Prince in his final days—a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to each of the book’s images. 
 
 This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to the world. 
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‘Prince’s voice comes through loud and clear; his personality, joie de vivre and single-mindedness jumping off the page throughout.’ 
CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE 
 
'The Beautiful Ones is for everyone. It's not a read, but an experience, an immersion inside the mind of a musical genius. You are steeped in Prince's images, his words, his essence… The book can be a starting point for a Prince fascination, or a continuation of long-standing admiration. Either way, it will deepen the connection of any reader with the musical icon.” 
USA TODAY 
 
‘The Beautiful Ones remains a jewel-like fragment, Piepenbring’s sensitive introduction providing a snapshot of the Purple One’s last months at Paisley Park and during the Piano and Microphone tour’ Q MAGAZINE 
 
 'An affirmation of Prince’s Blackness and humanity… Prince writes about his childhood with clarity and poetic flair, effortlessly combining humorous anecdotes with deep self-reflection and musical analysis… Prince is one of us — he just worked to manifest dreams that took him from the North Side of Minneapolis to the Super Bowl.' 
HUFFPOST 
 
‘A compelling curiosity that finds its author orbiting around a few touchingly intimate encounters with his sphinx-like subject … with passages, lyric sheets and photographs from the Purple One himself’ 
TELEGRAPH, Books of the Year 
 
 'A memoir that is written by Prince, literally. Handwritten pages he had shared with Piepenbring make up Part 1, taking us from his first memory — his mother's eyes — through the early days of his career... The Beautiful Ones doesn't paint a perfect picture. It's not definitive. It can't be, it shouldn't be and, thankfully, it doesn't try to be. We'll never know what it might have been if Prince had lived. But it's a good start. Now, it's up to us to take what's there and make something out of it for ourselves, creating, just as Prince wanted.' 
NPR 
 
 'Both a pleasure and a surprise ... Prince took the project very seriously, and it shows in the work he delivered. ... It shines an intimate and revealing light on the least-known period of his life' 
VARIETY 
 
‘The Beautiful Ones is a book in pieces, fragments of the ground-breaking autobiography Prince had planned. Pieced together after his death in 2016, it collects his handwritten childhood memoires, superb personal photographs and his chosen co-writer Dan Piepenbring’s vivid account of their brief collaboration. Yet remarkably despite the central absence, it still catches something of Prince between the gaps - a trace of perfume, a glance to camera, a first kiss’ SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year 
 
‘This is a beautiful book and a must-have for Prince completists’ 
DAILY EXPRESS 
 
 ‘A ghostly memoir of a pop legend’ 
THE i

The Beautiful Ones

Katherine Arden

Anne of Brittany was a child when her land was invaded, her castle besieged, and her royal father driven to his death. 
 
Now Brittany is occupied by her enemies, her treasury empty, and only one thing is lacking to complete her realm’s subjugation: she is required, on pain of the sword, to marry the King of France. 
 
But Anne cannot. She has promised her dead father that Brittany would never be conquered. 
 
Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union. 
 
Under the guise of a hunting party, Anne takes her court deep into a deep forest, a strange place dogged with rumours of ancient enchantments; a place where diviners cannot see. She tells the French that she had gone there to hunt unicorns. 
 
It’s a ruse, a lie, a feint. 
 
But when, against all expectations, a unicorn does appear and a wounded stranger stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change the destiny of her nation - or be lost in the mist for ever.

The Unicorn Hunters

Mat Watson

A highly entertaining, clued-up and panoramic guide to cars by Mat Watson, the world’s most followed car journalist on social media. 
 
Mat Watson knows everything there is to know about cars. 
 
In his 25-year career as a motor journalist, he has driven and tested every vehicle under the sun, from engineering marvels such as the Bugatti Chiron and Ferrari F40, to the grand-touring stalwarts of highways and motorways the world over – Audis, Volvos, Fords, Fiats, Citroens, Mercedes and Teslas – to absolute crapheaps which should never have made it out of the factory gates. He has crawled into hundreds of boots, peered under thousands of bonnets, kicked tens of thousands of tyres, and has perfected a nose for what makes a beautiful, brilliant and, sometimes truly atrocious, car. 
 
Mat is trusted and loved by his many millions of followers online, and his seal of approval is highly sought-after by car manufacturers the world over. His signature unserious yet highly informed style has granted him exclusive access to the biggest launches, the most exclusive cars, and the best in-car snacks. 
 
In Auto Biography, his long-awaited first book, Mat presents his own 100% completely correct and highly opinionated guide to the world of cars. From Aston Martin to Kia, BMW to Porsche, he offers up discerning and pithy takes on all the major car manufacturers, telling stories and sharing industry information that has never before been heard. 
 
Whether you're in the market for a hatchback or a hypercar, an SUV or an EV – or if you just want to know what it's like to drag-race a Koenigsegg – this is the book for you.

Auto Biography

An A-Z Exposé of Cars

Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. In this beautifully illustrated compendium, Diana Gabaldon opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within. Including: 
 
· Full synopses of Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager and Drums of Autumn 
· A complete listing of the characters (fictional and historical) in the first four novels in the series, as well as family trees and genealogical notes 
· A comprehensive glossary and pronunciation guide to Gaelic terms and usage 
· The Gabaldon Theory of Time Travel, explained 
· Frequently asked questions to the author and her (sometimes surprising) answers 
· An annotated bibliography 
· Essays about medicine and magic in the eighteenth century, researching historical fiction, creating characters and more 
· Professionally cast horoscopes for Jamie and Claire 
· The making of the TV series: how we got there from here, and what happened next (including ‘My Brief Career as a TV Actor’)

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