‘Funny and compulsively readable’ Louis TherouxWhat if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists – Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen – that believe in it.

The timeless epic of the Hindu faith, now available from Signet Classics in this edition translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood—with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world.

This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with PA!draig\'s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem.

\'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget.

Imagine how different our world would be if our ancestors had looked up and there were no stars . . . For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species\' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today\'s artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.

THE MAGICAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\'A compelling story of magic and survival against the odds.\' SUNDAY TIMES\'Uplifting . . . a welcome escape from our turbulent times.\' GUARDIAN\'An enchanting story of love, loss and survival\' MAIL ON SUNDAY\'Full of hope and bravery\' PRIMABrought together by magic. Torn apart by war.

\'If only we could all write as brilliantly on Italy and its food as John Dickie does. He may well know Italy and Italians better than they know themselves\' Stanley Tucci

\'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret\' ObserverWhen the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines\'s life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023** ** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL\'S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION** Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?

\'D\'you - er - have you seen her before?\' \'Yes. I know who she is.\' \'But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You\'re not being serious - I mean . . . What do you mean?\' On a dark winter\'s night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead huddle for warmth in the Senior Common Room of a college in Oxford.

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up?

An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet. This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.

\'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn\'t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning\' This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God\'s elect.

A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - available for pre-order now Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers,

\'Made me almost tearful with gratitude that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated pleasure ... And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and you hold it close.\' JOHN SELF \'A delight ... As funny and vivid as Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov ... An extraordinarily large-hearted work.\' THE CRITIC mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary

As President Trump\'s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official.

This selection of poems chosen from four collections shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as his novels, Unreconciled is a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.

As the eagerly-anticipated new film Blade Runner 2049 finally comes to the screen, rediscover the world of Blade Runner . . . World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey.

Murakami\'s new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.

Discover Dante\'s original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante\'s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.