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In the heart-pounding sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling dystopian romance Silver Elite, lines will be crossed, loyalties will be tested, and the fight for the Continent is only just beginning as Wren Darlington finds herself caught in the middle of two wars: one for the fate of her home and another for the fate of her heart.LINES WILL BE CROSSED.After blowing her cover as a double agent within Silver Elite and fleeing the Prime-controlled capital, Wren Darlington is finally safe behind allied lines. As her lover and former commander Cross Redden works to disrupt the Primes from inside their ranks, Wren turns her focus toward assisting the Uprising in overthrowing their rule once and for all.LOYALTIES WILL BE TESTED.But though she's back among her own people, trust is hard-won and hidden agendas abound on the Mod base. And beyond those walls, Wren can't help but worry that Cross is keeping secrets of his own. . . secrets that could jeopardise everything. Complicating matters even further is her shocking reunion with hotshot fighter pilot and undercover operative, Grayson Blake. Once her closest friend in Silver Elite, Gray seems to understand Wren on a level she never thought possible.AND THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CONTINENT IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING.With the war between Mods and Primes growing more brutal by the day, and with her own role in the conflict becoming more essential than ever, Wren must confront some gut-wrenching questions. Who is she fighting for . . . and who is she willing to lose?

A groundbreaking exploration of how fatherhood transforms men's brains, bodies, health, skills and relationshipsIn recent years men's attitudes to fatherhood have changed dramatically. But only now are we learning how profoundly fatherhood changes men's brains and biology - and the effects these changes have on their health, skills, relationships and sense of purpose.In Dad Brain, one of the world's leading researchers of fatherhood, Darby Saxbe, provides a captivating account of this new science, packed with insights into how different approaches to fatherhood affect not only men but the whole family. Among its many revelations are that:* Fathers' brains shrink and their testosterone drops* Fathers undergo a host of hormonal changes once thought only to affect women* Fathers can suffer post-partum depression but enjoy better long-term health* Fathers make for better managers and their style of play makes their kids more resilient* In the West fathers typically get less sleep than mothers, but mothers get worse sleep than fathers* Dads who do more housework are generally happier* A majority of women prefer 'dad bods'Above all, Dad Brain shows that men are wired to participate in care just as women are, but that many of these adaptations only come online when fathers invest time and practice into parenthood. The more they do, the more their brains and bodies change, the better they get at it. Ultimately it shows a good father is not something you are, it is something you become.'Entertaining and fascinating ... a must-read' Eve Rodsky'A wonderful book ... from an accomplished scientist' Antonio Damasio'Masterful, science-packed, offering unique and practical insights' Daniel J. Siegel

Want to feel more secure in your relationships - and in yourself?

Learn how to rewire your attachment style and unlock stronger relationships, better health, greater resilience and a more fulfilling life in the empowering new book from the acclaimed psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and the multi-million bestselling co-author of Attached, Dr Amir Levine. 'A groundbreaking roadmap to emotional resilience . . . Whether you're anxious, avoidant, or somewhere in between, this book helps you to shift into 'secure mode' and thrive.' CHARLES DUHIGG, bestselling author of The Power of Habit 'Secure can help you know yourself better, and self-awareness is the first step towards positive change, in this case becoming more open and relaxed in all your relationships.' PHILIPPA PERRY, bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read --------- Years after revolutionising our understanding of attachment theory, Dr Amir Levine returns with a brilliant, paradigm-shifting work on the science of secure human connection. As Dr Levine explains in Secure, people with a secure attachment style are the most comfortable not just in their relationships, but also in their own skins. The benefits of living in 'secure mode' are extraordinary: * People tend to be healthier and have a better relationship with health care professionals.* When they do have a difficult illness, they have fewer symptoms and handle it better emotionally.* If they're looking for a job, they're more effective in their search and their self-esteem doesn't suffer as much. * They are less susceptible to consumerism. * They even navigate social media better and experience fewer negative impacts.The good news is that anyone, regardless of how insecure they may feel, can learn to create a secure life. In his groundbreaking new book, Dr Levine presents offers practical, neuroscience-backed tools to help you to cultivate security so that you can thrive in your career, relationships, and more. Written with compassion and warmth, Secure is the definitive, empowering and practical guide for anyone looking to improve their emotional health, deepen their connections, and build more fulfilling lives.More praise for Secure: 'A vital roadmap to the inner strength that makes sustainable success possible.' ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, bestselling author of Thrive 'A profound new model for creating real, lasting security.' LORI GOTTLIEB, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone 'A rare kind of guide: humane, hopeful, and immediately useful for anyone who wants to show up better for the people who matter most.' AMY EDMONDSON, author of Right Kind of Wrong

'As I follow the principles that Arthur Brooks presents, I am becoming happier. I'm actually having fun, too - a word that previously didn't exist in my vocabulary.' - OPRAH WINFREYFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength, the definitive account of how the modern world makes meaning so hard to find-and a plan to discover your life's deepest purpose.If you struggle to discern life's meaning, you're not alone. Millions today describe a growing sense of emptiness, a lack of purpose and significance. And there's a reason: Rapid cultural, economic and technological changes have rewired our brains, reducing their ability to perceive depth and purpose.In The Meaning of Your Life, social scientist and happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks shows you how to push back against these changes and find the meaning you need to live a happy, fulfilling life. Relying on cutting-edge science, he offers practical, evidence-based strategies for breaking free of the powerful trends and personal habits that dull your focus on the why of your life. Drawing on the great philosophers and the world's faith traditions, he shows how everyone can-and must-approach life's most important and mysterious questions and provides a blueprint that will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence, passionate love, and true calling.'What is the meaning of my life?' is not an unanswerable question, but rather the start of a pilgrimage into unexplored corners of your consciousness. The Meaning of Your Life is your handbook for this journey.

Anne of Brittany was a child when her land was invaded, her castle besieged, and her royal father driven to his death.Now Brittany is occupied by her enemies, her treasury empty, and only one thing is lacking to complete her realm's subjugation: she is required, on pain of the sword, to marry the King of France.But Anne cannot. She has promised her dead father that Brittany would never be conquered.Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France's greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union.Under the guise of a hunting party, Anne takes her court deep into a deep forest, a strange place dogged with rumours of ancient enchantments; a place where diviners cannot see. She tells the French that she had gone there to hunt unicorns.It's a ruse, a lie, a feint.But when, against all expectations, a unicorn does appear and a wounded stranger stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change the destiny of her nation - or be lost in the mist for ever.Praise for The Warm Hands of Ghosts:'Darkly beautiful and deeply humane.' Ava Reid, bestselling author of A Study in Drowning'A book you won't want to let go of.' Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series'One of the best historical fantasies I've ever read' Emma Toerzs, bestselling author of Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe'Wonderful storytelling. Inventive, haunting and deeply moving.' Sarah Winman, bestselling author of Still Life

From the globally bestselling author of Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jonasson-----------The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film.The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family.The director's pretentious, the screenwriter's an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.And things are about to get much, much worse.In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed - which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder.Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target?A Deadly Episode is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well, and the most personal case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.-----------Readers cannot get enough of A Deadly Episode . . .'The perfect whodunnit' 5-star reader review'A very entertaining instalment to this fabulous series' 5-star reader review'A pacy and entertaining mystery that I loved from start to finish' 5-star reader review'A roller coaster of red herrings' 5-star reader review'Full of humour, twists and red herrings' 5-star reader review'Exceedingly brilliant' 5-star reader review

'The best new popular science books of 2026' - New ScientistConstruction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on - all of it was built and enabled by construction.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Fred gives us a front row seat to a fascinating, fact-packed guided tour around the world, shining a spotlight on the incredible feats of engineering that serve as new chapters in the story of what's to come.By the end of this book, you'll learn:

The trajectory of our civilisation is being authored today, all around us, not in words on a page but in steel and concrete, by an industry that most people completely overlook. Learn more about it in Mega Builds.

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth.'A gorgeously gruesome Gothic romance.' Jacqueline Carey'Reid is a singular, extraordinary talent.' Sasha Peyton Smith'A powerful and essential voice.' Samantha Shannon________________________________________________Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.A conqueror's blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic.But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Agnes.Though she has not spoken a word in seven years, Agnes is the true carrier of the House's legacy. And she has her orders. She must recapture the secrets of death magic and avenge her family's fallen honour. She must arrange the betrothal of her beloved cousin Marozia to Liuprand, heir to the conqueror's throne, for access to the forbidden library in his grotesquely grand castle.Revenge burns in Agnes's heart, but so do stranger passions - and it is Liuprand, the golden prince, who speaks to her soul. This passion is as treasonous as it is powerful, poisoning the kingdom's roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two.For Agnes's final order is the gravest: She must not fall in love.Book One of The House of Teeth Duology

'One of the great American writers of our time.' LOS ANGELES TIMES'Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid.' STEPHEN KING'The American Dostoyevsky.' JOYCE CAROL OATES'The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction.' THE NEW YORKER'Fast, punchy, telegrammatic prose that demands to be read quickly and that flows like an enraged river.' NPRTurn to the first page. Disavow what you think you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and '60s L.A. as you've never read it before.It's late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He's a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There's a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy's overworked and overamped. He's running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman-Tricky Dick Nixon's head goons-have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.L.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his dirty rag.RED SHEET is James Ellroy's most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.

MASTER THE BELIEFS THAT DRIVE SUCCESS.Each of us has a lens through which we see the world, one that has been crafted by every experience we've ever had and is made up of our conscious and unconscious beliefs. But even though this lens has remarkable predictive power on our outcomes in work and life, we are often unaware of how much it shapes our choices-and how much power we have to change it, and our lives, for the better.In The Power of Beliefs Shawn Achor draws from his groundbreaking work in fifty countries over twenty years to introduce a critical set of tools, the seven Core Power Beliefs:1. My Behavior Matters2. I Matter3. I Am Not Alone4. This Work is Meaningful5. I Have Things To Be Grateful for in the Present6. I Have Something to Give7. There Is Something Greater Than MeThe extent to which we embrace these beliefs is the strongest indicator of positive outcomes across all aspects of our lives. Using fascinating examples from his own research and the cutting-edge work of others, Achor shows just how powerful our beliefs can be. He shows us how to undertake the often challenging work of changing our beliefs to transform our lens, opening up a world of possibilities previously unseen. And the benefits don't stop there: Once we know that change is possible, the next step is helping to strengthen the beliefs and trajectories of our family, friends, coworkers, and the world around us.

The twenty-sixth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series.______________________________________________________Beautiful young women are disappearing by the dozen. A celebration is cut short when a concerned father crashes Detective Inspector Lindsay Boxer's party. His daughter is missing - and she's not the only one.DI Lindsay Boxer has been tracking a chilling pattern: a Jane Doe washed ashore, a body in Golden Gate Park, a string of missing women across San Francisco. Someone is hunting the city's most vulnerable, and the count keeps rising.When Lindsay reaches out to Interpol, their warning is stark: these cases are nearly impossible to solve, and the women are almost never found alive.But 'impossible' has never stopped the Women's Murder Club before.______________________________________________________PRAISE FOR THE WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB'Packed with action... a compelling read with great set pieces and, most of all, that charismatic cast of characters' SUN'I couldn't turn the pages quick enough. Great plot, fantastic storytelling and characters that spring off the page - all the right ingredients for a thriller!' HEIDI PERKS'Fast-moving, intricately plotted... Boxer steals the show as the tough cop with a good heart.' MIRROR'Terrific, high-octane, really pacy... every scene is a film, every character real, and every plot point leaves us breathless.' JO SPAIN

'Fight Less, Win More is a massively useful book for just about anyone who has to deal with the desires, foibles, and idiosyncrasies of other human beings.' - Daniel Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of To Sell Is Human, Drive, and The Power of Regret

Your handbook for mastering the negotiating skills in the multimillion-copy bestseller Never Split the Difference.You're in a negotiation right now. In fact, you've been negotiating all day.That email to your boss? Negotiation. That conversation with your teenager? Negotiation. That interaction with the barista who made your morning coffee? Negotiation too.Most people don't realise they're negotiating until it's too late - until they've already lost ground, damaged relationships, or walked away empty-handed. But what if you could transform every interaction into an opportunity to get what you want while making others feel valued?In this groundbreaking follow-up to the global bestseller Never Split the Difference, negotiation experts Jonathan B. Smith and Derek Gaunt reveal the missing piece that's been holding you back: a practical handbook for applying Tactical Empathy - the ability to understand and influence people at a level they don't even realize-to every sensitive conversation in your life.Discover how to:

Forged in high-stakes hostage crises and refined in thousands of business negotiations, these field-tested techniques aren't based on academic theory - they're proven methods that work when the pressure is on.This book isn't about tricks or manipulative tactics or winning at all costs. It's about a fundamental shift in how you approach human interaction: It's not about you - it's about them.When you master this mindset and the practical skills that flow from it, you'll transform not just your negotiations but your entire life. You'll resolve conflicts faster, build stronger relationships, and achieve outcomes you never thought possible.Inside you'll find:

Stop leaving money on the table. Stop enduring unnecessary conflict. Stop accepting less than you deserve.This isn't just another business book-it's the missing manual for every negotiation in your life.Get your copy of Fight Less, Win More today and start turning every conversation into a path to success.

An extraordinary new courtroom drama from Sunday Times bestselling thriller author James Patterson and Academy Award winner Viola Davis. Get ready to meet the most unforgettable character in years. All rise...for Judge Stone.The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. Everything changes when she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.Criminally, it's open-and-shut.Ethically, there is no middle ground.Essentially, it's a choice between life and death.No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.An explosive legal thriller that will keep you turning the pages until the stunning conclusion.-------------------------------------------'A stunning, powerful and incendiary courtroom thriller. Impossible to put down' - CHRIS WHITAKER'Gripping, tense, heart-wrenching, timely and so, so important. I read it in one sitting. This is a story that everyone will be talking about in 2026.' - RUTH MANCINI