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Nova Weetman
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life.
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Kate Emery
Holly Jackson meets Agatha Christie in this cosy modern-day YA murder mystery where your closest family are your prime suspects.
Daniel Swain, Workman Calendars
From climate scientist Dr. Daniel Swain, a collection of extreme weather facts and scientific phenomena for the weather-watcher.
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National Audubon Society, Workman Calendars
From the wildlife preservation and conservation experts at Audubon, a year of favourite backyard birds. Each month of this Picture-a-Day wall calendar features a beloved backyard bird, complete with detailed…
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C. B. Everett
And Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Ten strangers. An old dark house. A killer picking them off one by one. And a missing girl…
And Then There Were None meets Shutter Island.
Dr Matthew Rukgaber
Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species. It relies often on non-naturalistic "philosophies of consciousness" that locate humanity…
Richard Bausch
A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch ("A master of the short story" -The New York Times…
Lesley Kara
The #1 bestselling author returns with this gripping closed-circle thriller about an unusual home full of strangers, with a murderer in their midst . . .
THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER…
Catalonia has for centuries been a destination for immigrants: first from neighbouring regions, then from all over Spain, and in the last twenty-five years from the whole world. Currently 16%…
Rahman Abbas
While Salam's life unfolds a world that is riddled with patriarchy, caste prejudice, religious intolerance and exploitation in the name of faith, the deeper conflicts of love and abandonment are…
An annual that echoes The Old Farmer's Almanac. The Other Almanac is fun, fact-filled and fabulously beautiful, with a quirkily progressive and environment friendly take on the coming year.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality
'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread…
Sarah Jio
From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio comes an escapist novel following a young woman stuck in a "time loop" of one-day relationships with romantic partners from her past.
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Andre Alexis
Playful, stirring stories of the strange and the everyday, inspired by Swift, Kawabata, Stoker, and more.
The sister of grief is gratitude.
In nine stories, Other Worlds quickly takes us…
Lisa Gardner
Melanie Stokes learns from a reporter that she is the biological daughter of a serial killer executed years ago--the same killer who murdered her adoptive parents' young daughter. When the…
Vidyan Ravinthiran
A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism.
Jessica R Patch
"A twisty tale packed with juicy surprises." -Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of The Paris Widow
She thought she was the only one lying about her identity. Until she stepped…
Kirthana Ramisetti
A compulsively readable romcom of mistaken identity set within high society New York and the sacrifices made to keep up appearances, in trade paperback. Somewhere in New York City, Lata…
Scott Alexander Howard
Soon to be a TV series Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this…
C B Everett
A group of strangers gathered at a mysterious country house are in a race against time to stop a serial killer in this twisty, high-concept thriller that combines Agatha Christie…
Michele Lamont
"A thoughtful recipe for building social justice" (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michele Lamont that makes the case for reexamining what we value--the quest for respect--in an age that…
Irene Graziosi
A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our lives
Once an ambitious and…
Thomas G Olsen
Lear's Other Shadow proposes a cultural history of King Leir/Lear's queen, beginning with pre-Shakespearean versions of the archetypal tale, through Shakespeare's dramatic retelling, and in dozens of lively post-Shakespearean adaptations…
Michela Gecele
This book explores a key theme both for humanity and for psychotherapy-how we can understand ourselves as a web of relational connections within the wider world that shapes us all.
Steven Davis
For most Americans, state lands are the most readily accessible type of public land; however, despite their ubiquity, they remain largely terra incognita. The Other Public Lands is a primer…
Vanessa Beaumont
The story of a mother's love for her two sons and the deep lie that runs through the heart of everything
Emma Jayne, Ashanti Fortson
Two women and their clones are thrown into crisis in this queer sci-fi graphic novel by Ignatz Award-winning cartoonists Emma Jayne and Ashanti Fortson!
In a society where human cloning…
Diana Reid
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2022 Shortlisted for the Indie Award for Best Fiction Shortlisted for the ABIA for Literary Fiction Longlisted for the BookPeople Book of the…
Rita Symons
'Othering', the process of treating other people or groups as different or even alien, can be overt or implicit, and how it impacts individuals and organisations can be obvious or…
Frye Gaillard
Frye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that…
David Sterling Brown
Exploring the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare illustrates in characters like Hamlet, Antony and the Macbeths - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this urgent, compelling work shows…
Xiaoqiu Qiu
" Long before it features an image, language is a landscape, a primordial utterance and abode. Xiaoqiu Qiu, unique among poets of the rising generation, gives voice to such utterance…
Jackie Sibblies Drury
A collection of sharp, innovative plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ofFairview.
Jackie Sibblies Drury has established herself as a bold and formally innovative writer whose work upends expectations of…
K. G. Subramanyan
A fascinating discussion of Gandhi's moral values and art stance, providing contemporary ethical reflections.
In Discovering Each Other and Other Essays, K. G. Subramanyan reflects on Gandhi's political and cultural…
Kate Frost
An emotionally moving story of family, friendship, love, loss and hope from TOP #5 bestselling author, Kate Frost.Four women struggle with their life choices and the hand fate has dealt…
Phaidon Editors
Henri Matisse's abstract cut-outs are used to teach colours in this innovative read-aloud board book
Mariya bint Rehan
The Muslim mum is the most fertile political symbol of our times heralded as both the solution and cause to many of the issues that erroneously come to define Muslim…
Kirsty Logan
The perfect anti-Valentine- a deliciously dark collection of love stories, from a prizewinning LGBTQI+ writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.
A deliciously dark collection of love stories to…
Raven Todd DaSilva
Welcome ancient history lovers and archaeology fans! Raven Todd DaSilva, award-winning scholar, archaeologist, and creator of the popular archaeology online educational platformDig it With Raven, wants to introduce you to…
Clare Mackintosh
Even on the most desirable street, there's a dark side . . . The new thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller
