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GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024 From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . . 'A shimmering fever-dream of a n...

A hero to some. A villain to many. The truth forever buried.The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world’s greatest empire — but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all agree on three facts: He was exiled to the wildernes...

If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars , perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to wr...

Since 1936 HOME has showcased New Zealand residential architecture; homes that are designed to inspire, challenge and delight, by the country’s best architects. HOME celebrates New Zealand’s best design, interiors and landscapes – every element of the places we call home. It explores the wealth o...

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, The Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and...

Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It’s time for the switch …Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like...

The second instalment in the number one Sunday Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mystery.It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history....

Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free , A. A. Long—one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—pr...

One book can change your life. Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia’s. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family. The silver clasps binding the pages contain rare magic – the same magic th...

A veteran of the Great War, Jake Barnes is both physically and emotionally wounded, leaving him unable to be intimate. Even so, he pines after Lady Brett Ashley, a promiscuous twice-divorced woman. As feelings are hurt and punches are thrown, their lives and the lives of their friends and lovers ...