A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick Honor
‘A heart-warming tale of love and friendship, redemption and forgiveness’ Mail on Sunday
Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay for the first time in several years to adopt a baby. Discovering that his elderly mother is in the hospital and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt over his long absence.
As Remy’s mother begins communicating and family secrets unravel, Remy is forced to re-evaluate everything he has known …
‘A compassionate and insightful exploration of judgement, forgiveness and understanding’ Lisa Ko
‘Thrilling, propulsive and terrifying’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
THE SECOND NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER, THE REST IS CLASSIFIED PODCAST CO-HOST AND THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SEVENTH FLOOR AND ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR*** DAMASCUS STATION (‘One of the best spy thrillers in years’ THE TIMES)
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A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin.
But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?
CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max’s family business in Mexico – a CIA front since the 1960s – is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin’s private banker, and his wife Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer herself…
PRAISE FOR MOSCOW X:
‘The most authentic depiction of CIA deep cover operations you’ll find in print’ – John Sipher, Former CIA Senior Operations Officer
‘A terrific read, cementing McCloskey in my mind as the best spy fiction writer since le Carré’ – Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
‘Spellbinding … An electrifying read. I could not put it down’ – Clarissa Ward, CNN Chief International Correspondent
RAVE READER REVIEWS:
‘Moves at a ripping pace. A terrific, unputdownable page-turner’
‘A page-turner, the pace is frantic … Superb fun’
‘A barnstorming tour de force. I loved it!’
‘Not since Joan Didion in her prime has a writer reported from inside inside a system gone mad with this much style, intelligence and wit … A perfect book’ Caitlin Flanagan
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent romp through the sacred spaces of the new left.
As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and a frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends – until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people.
When her colleagues suggested that asking these questions meant she was ‘on the wrong side of history,’ Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger – and funnier – than she’d expected.
In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multi-day course on ‘The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,’ following the social justice activists who run ‘Abolitionist Entertainment, LLC,’ and trying to please the New York Times‘s ‘disinformation czar,’ she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very centre of Western life.
Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber.
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
The ‘English’ of this novel are a particular kind of family. Their ailing patriarch is Phillip Prys, the once-famous writer unexpectedly eclipsed first by voguish Salman Rushdie, and second by a massive stroke. His third wife, Shirin, pads through their house in Hampstead, resolute in the face of Myfanwy, first spouse, who returns with all the subtlety of a stormy weather front to manage Phillip’s care. Their children, Jake and Juliet, have each retreated towards drugs and food, their already strained relationship with their father unable to bear this latest rupture. And to cap it all, it’s the hottest summer anyone can remember.
Enter Struan. Built like a heron, fresh from Scotland, he is thrust — quite literally — into the bosom of the family as Phillip’s 17-year-old nurse. He’s had experience of death, but not of London. It’s a foreign country, with foreign food and foreign customs. But it also has a kind of magic. As he comes under the influence of each Prys, his life begins to change in ways he could never have imagined. And so, in the meantime, do theirs. . .
The political left has an urgent and rising problem with authoritarianism. An alarmingly high percentage of self-identified progressives are punitive, bullying, and intolerant of disagreement – and the problem is getting worse.
Using his own cutting-edge research, leading psychologist Luke Conway shows that it’s not just right-wing extremists who long for an authority figure to crush their enemies, silence opponents and restore order; it’ s also those who preach ‘be kind’ and celebrate their ‘inclusivity.’ A persistent proportion of left-wingers demonstrate authoritarian tendencies, and they’re becoming more emboldened as they gain cultural and political power. On a range of scientific and social issues, they are increasingly advocating censorship over free debate, disregarding the rule of law, and dehumanising their opponents. These tendencies are part of an accelerating ‘threat circle’ of mutual hatred and fear between left and right that could tear apart our basic democratic norms.
Concluding with an eloquent call for firm but rational resistance to this rising tide of liberal bullying, Conway presents a way forward for our hyper-partisan era.
A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK
When a little boy Elmer strikes up a friendship with an alley cat, he learns of a baby dragon that is being forced to serve as a ferry for the selfish animals of Wild Island. Elmer determines at once to free the dragon, and with a bit of advice from the savvy cat, he arms himself with chewing gum, lollipops, rubber bands and some other unlikely items. With these tools and his own sharp wits, Elmer is prepared to face hungry tigers, cranky crocodiles and other challenges.
Both a Newbery Honor Book and an American Library Association Notable Book, this charming story has delighted generations of readers since its original publication in 1948.
‘A real delight’ – New Yorker
‘A brilliant debut’ Guardian
1870s, the Black Country.
Michael is a miner. But it’s no life for a man.
Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won’t have to be a miner too.
Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and Luke’s.
But his workmate has other ideas…
Mercia’s Take summons an England in the heat of the industrial revolution, and the lives it took to make it. Gripping, powerful and intense, it is the debut of an astonishing new talent.
‘A sublime gem of a novel’ Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Eloise, now a professor who studies the psychology of happiness, is troubled by her younger wife’s radical politics. And Jomo, founder of a luxury jewellery company, has been carrying an engagement ring around for months, unsure whether his girlfriend is the one.
The soul searching begins in earnest at their much-anticipated college reunion weekend on the Harvard campus, when the most infamous member of their class, Frederick – senior advisor and son of the recently elected and loathed US President – turns up dead.
Old friends often think they know everything about one another, but time has a way of making us strangers to those we love – and to ourselves…
THE TELEGRAPH, BLOOMBERG AND TIME ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR’
‘A taut, immersive chronicle of endurance’ Time Magazine
‘One of the most compelling and unflinching books you will ever read’ Daily Telegraph
On 7 October, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged barefoot out of his front door while his family watched in horror, Sharabi was plunged deep into the suffocating darkness of Gaza’s tunnels. As war raged above him, he endured a gruelling 491 days in captivity – all the while holding onto the hope that he would one day be reunited with his loved ones.
In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel’s history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions – starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors.
Eli Sharabi’s story is one of hunger and heartache, of physical pain, longing, loneliness and a helplessness that threatens to destroy the soul. But it is also a story of strength, of resilience, and of the human spirit’s refusal to surrender. It is about the camaraderie forged in captivity, the quiet power of faith, and one man’s unrelenting decision to choose life, time and time again.
Reminiscent of Elie Wiesel’s Night, Hostage is a profound witness to history, so that it shall be neither forgotten nor erased.
Are we destined to merge with the machines we’ve created? What if the Singularity – the moment of merger – already happened? How would we know?
The King and the Swarm argues that we already have. We did so via an always-on and increasingly omnipresent mesh of digital sensing points that spans the world, and of which you almost certainly have one in your pocket. The global transformation this has wrought reaches far beyond economics, reshaping politics, culture, sex, family, and even consciousness itself.