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May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans

Our lives are minefields of misinformation.Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us…

The Colonel and the Eunuch - Mai Jia

The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 3 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English…

Cassandra in Reverse - Holly Smaleová

If you had the power to change the past. . .where would you start? Cassie has never really fitted in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing.And consistently says the wrong…

The Happy Couple - Naoise Dolan

'A brilliant contemporary novel' Colm Tóibín 'I am fully in awe of Dolan's talent' Douglas Stuart'I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it' Marian Keyes'Dazzling. Not a word is…

Merciless Saviors - H. E. Edgmon

Gem and the other gods wake to find themselves returned to the Ether, in the bodies they had a thousand years prior. Now in a world deeply corrupted by a millennia of the Shade's…

The Dubrovnik Book Club - Eva Glyn

In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik’s historic Old Town, a book club begins… Newly arrived on the sun-drenched shores of Croatia, Claire Thomson’s life is about to change forever when…

The Leopard: Vintage Quarterbound Classics - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic.'Historical fiction at its best' The WeekIt is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily.Fabrizio, the…

Earth - John Boyne

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected. It’s…

The Road to Freedom - Joseph E. Stiglitz

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedomDespite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains…

The Stoic Mindset - Mark Tuitert

Elite sportsman Mark Tuitert used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become an Olympic gold medallist, champion athlete and successful entrepreneur, overcoming a series of…

Alien Earths - Lisa Kaltenegger

For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate.The question should have an obvious…

The Tale of a Wall - Nasser Abu Srour

A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the…

The Martyr and the Red Kimono - Naoko Abe

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever. On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian…

The Spoiled Heart - Sunjeev Sahota

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways, a blazing new novel with a deeply moving family mystery at its heartNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around…

Young Hag - Isabel Greenberg

Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have closed.…