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There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their lives and loves, their foibles and eccentricities. And we entertain the strong suspicion that while they may be fellow citizens, they are very far from being People Like Us.In Heirs and Graces Eleanor Doughty draws on her unparalleled access to a bewildering range of dukes, duchesses, earls and others to create a vivid picture of who they are and how they tick. En route she traces their progress from a post-war era when they were described by one future Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'selfish, depraved, dissolute and decadent' to their diverse current roles as guardians of vast ancestral mansions, farmers, financiers and much else beside. She looks at key rites of passage, from cradle, via school (there are around 100 future peers at Eton today) to grave. And she tells stories of their ups and downs, and of the doings of the heroes and villains who fill their ranks.The result is a wonderfully rich, often amusing, always revealing account of the fortunes of the aristocracy since the Second World War and a series of fascinating glimpses into what it is like to be an aristocrat in Britain today.

Their relationship is fake, but the heated rivalry between Juvelian's new "boyfriend" and her ex is all too real. This manhwa adaptation of Hong Heesu's webnovel is now available in English print for the first time. With the ink drying on the contract for their fake relationship, Lady Juvelian and Max take their first awkward steps into high society as a couple. While tea parties and balls might be enough for Juvelian to start feeling comfortable with this new arrangement, they do little to assuage her father's disapproval. Under the best of circumstances, he would never allow his student to date his daughter, but as soon as he discovers that Max has real feelings for Juvelian, he makes plans to tear them apart. Those plans may have to wait, however, for the deranged emperor has schemes of his own, and in order to protect Juvelian, her father and Max might find themselves on the same side. What no one expects, of course, is for Juvelian to take matters of her fate entirely into her own hands... This volume collects episodes 49-64 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.

In the heart of New York City, where the glittering lights mask shadows of deception, Halston Graham is about to attempt the impossible.A newly unveiled Picasso, hidden for a century in a dusty French attic, is set to be auctioned at the prestigious House of Echelon. And Halston has a cunning plan. One that could secure millions for her future, and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father.But to pull off the heist of the century, she must assemble an unlikely team: a master forger, a ruthless Bulgarian mob boss with his own agenda, and an eccentric fashion designer whose flair for the dramatic might be their only ticket into the elite circles of the art world.In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston's brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies and secure her freedom?_________________________________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'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'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL

'Nothing less than brilliant' JOHN UPDIKE'An outstanding novel' Observer'A first novel of intricate merit ... A rich imagination glitters throughout' Mail on SundayIn the spring of 1914, German photographer August Sander captures a haunting: three young men on their way to a country dance, themselves unknowingly on the brink of the First World War. This photograph becomes the focal point of Richard Powers' compelling debut novel.The fate of the three farmers is intertwined with two contemporary stories: a museum-goer becomes obsessed with the photograph, and a young writer in Boston discovers he has a personal connection to it. Seamlessly blended together, these three narratives depict a century scarred by savagery and fired by progress.

'Thrilling ... such wonderful storytelling' Observer'Powers' acuity and satire are as sharp as ever' Sunday Times'Smart, tender and wrenchingly anxious about the approaching era ... A bracingly intelligent fable about the choices that face us' Sunday TelegraphWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone begins teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he meets Thassadit Amzwar, a young Algerian woman with a radiant presence. But he is disturbed by her - how can someone from a country ravaged by conflict be so happy? Puzzling the melancholic Russell, Thassa's happiness prompts him to research her war-torn country and theories on happiness. His amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed 'Miss Generosity' by classmates, Thassa's joy catches the eye of notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement Thomas Kurton who claims to have found the genotype for happiness. Yet, as media frenzy builds, Thassa's optimism is tested.Richard Powers' Generosity explores the implications of a genetic basis for happiness, asking who would control it, and how would it reshape humanity.

'Accomplished ... mature and assured ... A major American novelist' New RepublicEddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, occasional history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and master invalid, is facing a mysterious ailment. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and his ingrained aversion to doctors leaves his worried family scrambling to uncover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, Eddie secretly works on a project he calls 'Hobbstown', a place he believes will not only save him but the world.A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma explores the profound power of individual experience and the lengths to which one man will go to protect those he loves and his vision for a better world.

AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING'Bola Sol is a crucial voice in the financial advice arena. With practical, actionable tips, relatable commentary and a no-nonsense approach to financial literacy, her insights save money, but just as importantly, time too.' Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST and co-author of SLAY IN YOUR LANE'A wise, really useful book' Laura Whateley, author of MONEY: A USER'S GUIDE'An empowering and practical guide to financial literacy and independence . . . The book is filled with real-life examples, clear explanations, and motivational insights, making complex financial concepts accessible to everyone.' GLAMOUR MAGAZINE________________________________________We need to talk about money. Women have been overlooked and underestimated when it comes to finance; we typically earn less, are encouraged to spend more, and have fewer opportunities to build funds. But if we talk about money and share our knowledge, we will grow in confidence and wealth. This is the secret to securing your future and paying for all the things that matter.Whether you want to have children, get married, pay for a mortgage, start your own business or pay for nice holidays, all these goals cost money. But by building solid money habits you can plan for all life's major milestones and dream bigger. Bola Sol offers the essential tools needed to get started and make your bank balance healthier. Once you've done that, she demonstrates how you can grow your ambition and become wealthier. Finally, she reveals how you can use this money smartly to pay for things you want and become happier.Money isn't everything, but Bola shows how you can build your financial knowledge to enhance your wellbeing, open up new possibilities, and achieve your life goals.

Before the revolution, the Shah seemed invincible. He spearheaded an Iranian renaissance and acted as power broker between East and West during the Cold War. The world watched in awe as he manipulated oil prices, built the fifth largest military and vanquished internal enemies, skilfully maintaining the undying support of American presidents for decades.However, village streets spoke of a different Iran - people blamed the Shah for economic inequality, for not being present at major catastrophes, for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority.Enter Ayatollah Khomeini, a fiery cleric who promised his zealous followers Iran needn't be a puppet of the American government. Following a series of volatile protests, the powder keg erupted, the Shah was swept from power and the Ayatollah took control.Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott Anderson, this spellbinding narrative history argues that the Iranian Revolution was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, in Europe and now in the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent citizens for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval - and Iran was the template.

In 2018, the fashion world was shocked when Virgil Abloh was appointed as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton. In the brand's 164 year history, he would be the first black designer to serve as Artistic Director. In this brilliant, landmark book about Virgil Abloh, Make It Ours, Robin Givhan charts his surprising path to the top of the fashion world - a story that encompasses so much more than his own journey. This is at once a remarkable biography of the singular, creative force of an icon and a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. With access to Abloh's family, friends, collaborators, contemporaries, and many of the key figures of fashion's present and recent past, Givhan weaves a spellbinding tale of a young man's rise amidst a cultural moment that would upend a century's worth of ideas about luxury and taste. Featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from early groundbreaking Black designers like Oswald Boateng to Abloh's mercurial but critical collaborator and mentor, Kanye West, Make It Ours moves seamlessly between high fashion and pop culture in telling the story of how the collision of these worlds irrevocably transformed our desires and beliefs about the essential connections between who we are and what we wear.

'The perfect combination of heat and humour! Hannah Grace'A fresh, fun and fast-paced sports romance that readers won't be able to put down' Becka Mack 'A spicy and tender romance' Hannah Bonam-Young_______________________Ella Davies didn't trade her life in England for a year in Nashville to let anything-or anyone-throw her off her game. She only has one goal: to prove herself on her new school's elite cheer squad.What she hadn't planned for was meeting a gorgeous stranger on her first evening in America.Hudson Fox is Whitland's prized possession, a star quarterback who's never lacked admirers. But this year, he's sworn off temptation-especially the new English cheerleader who's proving impossible to ignore.When Ella and Hudson are forced to spend more time together, their "just one night" pact soon shatters.Until tumbling from the pyramid becomes the least of Ella's worries. Because instead of hitting the mat, she's falling hard for the quarterback. . ._______________________Praise for Ki Stephens: 'Game On has the perfect combination of heat and humour. Ella and Hudson are going to win the hearts of everybody who meets them. Ki Stephens is a must read author for any sports romance lover!' Hannah Grace'Ki Stephens writes real stories and characters that will have you falling in love over and over' Becka Mack'Ki's books are simultaneously a warm hug, a good laugh, and deeply hot' Annie Crown'A force to be reckoned within the romance space' Peyton Corinne'Ki captivates readers with nuanced love stories that leave a lasting impression' Bal Khabra'A unique voice to look out for in the romance world' Simone Soltani

Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people in this groundbreaking book. It is a must-read for parents, educators and mentors.___________________________________'Required reading for anyone who aspires to be a wise influence on the young people they care about.' Angela Duckworth'One of the most fascinating and important books of the past decade . . . It will change millions of lives.' Carol Dweck'This book is life-changing . . . a must-read for anyone who works with young people.'Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast'An important and extremely useful book.' Andrew Huberman__________________________________________In 10 to 25, David Yeager explains the emerging science of adolescent and young adult brains to reveal how we can engage, teach and support the young people in our lives. Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, changes in the brain spur young people to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain. This sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. 10 to 25 helps adults to use this science to learn how to encourage young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.Yeager explains how to adopt the mentor mindset - a leadership style that's attuned to young people's need for status and respect - by following a few highly effective and easy-to-learn practices. These include validating young people's perspectives (rather than dismissing them), asking them questions (rather than telling them what to do), and holding them to high standards (rather than coddling them). Yeager's scientific experiments have shown these practices reduce a wide variety of behaviour problems, including mental health issues, unhealthy eating, stress and purposelessness.Young people in this age group are poised to learn, grow, and accomplish incredible things - if only we can tap into the basic neurobiological systems that drive their motivation and behaviour. 10 to 25 offers long-term strategies to help nurture well-adjusted, independent, accomplished young adults, and is necessary reading for all parents, educators and mentors.

From the international bestselling author Ava Reid comes the sequel to the Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller A Study in Drowning, which follows Preston as he dives back into a world of the magical unknown.

'A galaxy-brain-level thinker' Torrey PetersSince her canonical 2017 essay 'On Liking Women', the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers.Authority brings together Chu's critical work across a wide range of media-novels, television, theater, video games-as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n+1. As a critic, Chu places The Phantom of the Opera within a centuries-old conflict between music and drama; questions the enduring habit of reading Octavia Butler's science fiction as a parable of slavery; teases out the ideology behind Hillary Clinton's (fictional) sex life; and charges fellow critics like Maggie Nelson and Zadie Smith with a complacent humanism.The unifying theme of the book is authority and taste in literature, art, culture and politics: how do we decide what's good, and how do we convince others that our judgement is correct?

A heartbreaking story of love and forgiveness in The Nightingale Daughters series from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife!_______________London's East End, 1940: a frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone, she refuses to hold the child: she can't let herself bond with the baby she must give up. But sometime in the night, a terrifying air raid forces the maternity unit to evacuate, and in the chaos, mother and baby are separated...Eighteen years later, student nurse Amy begins her career at the Nightingale Hospital. Finally away from the unhappy confines of home, she finds a friend and mentor in Sister Elizabeth Clyde. But Elizabeth is hiding a secret - one that could change both of their lives, forever...Will past mistakes destroy two families, or can love finally put an end to heartbreak?

'I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.'All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She's suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her. Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy. But Sam has gone missing. So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam's description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end. But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it. So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?One child. Two mothers. And a past that won't let them go.

An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars

Perfect for any Oasis fanOut of all the bitter feuds in music history, one of the fiercest is between two brothers in the same band: Liam and Noel Gallagher. Now, Bruno Vincent has gained exclusive access to their secret diaries. From the age of two, when they're screaming over each other's nursery rhymes to fifty two, when Liam wants to throw a telly out the window but it's fixed to the wall, the windows are unbreakable PVC with safety latches and he's got a bad back.

A dark and addictive fantasy series begins, set in a corrupt world where magic is fuelled by pleasure and pain, in this first instalment of the Silvercloak Saga.

A long-awaited reunion and a fragile happiness...Riftan has returned from the royal capital just in time to deal with a group of rogue knightsattacking the gates of Anatol. When the dust settles, he and Maxi finally have time to get toknow each other properly, but Maxi struggles to show Riftan who she really is, afraid that he willreject her. Even worse are her fears that the next time Riftan is called away, he might neverreturn. Determined to prove her worth and secure an unshakeable place in her new home, Maxiagrees to help the sorcerer Ruth create a new magical device... and discovers she might becapable of more than she could have ever dreamed. This volume collects episodes 25-45 of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webcomic on MANTA.

Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life.Clara, a celebrity author in desperate need of validation, believes Serene is their mother, while Dempsey, isolated and content to remain so, believes she is a con woman. As they clash over this stranger, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their pasts--together. In her riveting first foray into fiction, Yrsa Daley-Ward conjures a kaleidoscopic multiverse of daughterhood and mother-want, exploring the sacrifices that Black women must make for self-actualization. The result is a marvel of a debut novel that boldly asks, "How can it ever, ever be a crime to choose yourself?"

From the African diaspora to Ancient Egypt and Western Civilisation, Blackness has been distinctly missing from discussions of art history.In Reframing Blackness, art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, challenges this void, bringing it into the mainstream and interrogating its consequences on culture, society and education.Alayo covers a wide range of topics, exploring the presentation of Black figures in western Art, Blackness in Museums, contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and Blackness in the curriculum. This is a book that will unveil a long buried, but integral part, of our collective art history and start a much needed conversation.Accessible and incredibly refreshing, Reframing Blackness tells the history of art as it's never been told before.