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Xu is a writer to watch Isabel Banta, author of HoneySmart, engaging, and thought-provoking Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftover WomanA Love Reading DEBUT OF THE MONTH and STAR PICKElizabeth Zhang knows her place in the world. She knows shes in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, and the ninety-ninth percentile for academics.With a hard-working ethic instilled in her by immigrant parents, armed with impeccable grades, Elizabeth thinks she is set for Harvard Law School. Until she is rejected for being too ordinary, which she translates to mean shes just another boring Asian female. But when her classmate Laura Kim gets in, everything falls apart. Why was Laura accepted? What makes her so interesting?At first, she follows her because shes just curious. What Laura eats for lunch. Where Laura shops. The answer for Elizabeths failure must lie somewhere in Lauras life. But still, Elizabeth just cant see it. The only thing she sees is that Laura has taken her spot at Harvard.A spot she knows she deserves. A spot that shell simply have to take back.Layered, subversive, and satirical, this novel brings to light how, in the face of societal expectations and self-inflicted pressures, a person can unlock the darkest parts of themselves and show how far theyre willing to go to achieve their vision of success.

Goth girl Jenna Kelley can read minds, the ultimate tool for rebellion. But when her alcoholic mother is hospitalised, a stranger claiming to be her long-lost dad appears, promising a fresh start. A real parent, a normal life it sounds too good to be true.Her gifted classmates think so, but Jenna is so determined to have a real parent around and ignores her powerful intuition. Her gift for truth might be useless if her heart refuses to listen...Perfect for young readers who enjoy a mix of school drama and paranormal adventure, this light-hearted action-adventure series was adapted into a hit CBBC television drama in 2025.

Offers a deliciously readable, frequently funny rundown of some of the institutions most colourful misadventuresSunday IndependentSince it arrived on the airwaves in 1961, RTÉ has been buffeted in different directions, eventually slipping into a steady decline which accelerated over the past decade into a catastrophe.The 2023 revelations regarding secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy werent the first time Irelands national broadcaster has found itself caught up in scandal.Shane Ross, author of #1 bestsellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald, winds back the clock to examine RTEs history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste and ineptitude it has faced along the way.With clarity and wit, Ross rakes over RTEs colourful past while also considering what the future might hold for this once beloved institution.

E se bastasse chiudere gli occhi per tornare nella storia? Questo e quanto accade ai sei protagonisti che, sognando, si ritrovano nellanno della fondazione di Cartagine dove vedranno fondare una citta e da li un regno. Vivranno in prima persona la fondazione del regno e la presa di Babilonia con Alessandro Magno, saranno a Roma con Augusto e saccheggeranno lUrbe prima dei Visigoti di Alarico, tratteranno con Carlo Magno e saranno alla corte di Carlo V dAsburgo. Combatteranno la guerra dei Trentanni e quella dei Sette anni fino alla seconda guerra mondiale a fianco degli alleati. Vedranno con i propri occhi lascesa e la caduta di regni e imperi: un biglietto di viaggio indietro nel tempo.

One of Tudor historys rising stars. - Steven Veerapen, author of The Wisest FoolFIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, MARY BOLEYN DESERVES HER STORY TO BE TOLD CORRECTLYMary Boleyn has long been dismissed as the great and infamous whore, her story overshadowed by scandal and myth.But what if everything we thought we knew about her was wrong?Drawing on newly retranslated original sources and rare archival material, Mary Boleyn: The Queens Slandered Sister peels away centuries of rumour to reveal the true Mary Boleyn. Far from the reckless wanton of legend, she emerges as a woman of ambition, resilience, and intelligence. Acclaimed historian Sylvia Barbara Soberton challenges outdated narratives, uncovering the real extent of Marys relationships with Henry VIII and Francis I, her role in the rise and fall of her younger sister Anne, and her life beyond the royal spotlight.This revelatory biography rewrites Mary Boleyns story a must-read for Tudor history enthusiasts.

Your generation. You owe us a future. A chance at one at least.When glaciologist Alice returns from Antarctica to her daughter Alba and her mother Eve, she finds that everything has changed. Theres been a flood, a funeral, and a new romance.Maybe those cracks she discovered in the Antarctic ice have followed her homeUrgent and explosive, Albatross takes us to the very boundaries of love and devotion in the age of climate catastrophe, asking what were willing to sacrifice for a better future. Martha Loaders play was commissioned and first produced by Menagerie Theatre on a tour of the UK in 2026.

dis is my home. De only home I have. My whole life. My history here. And de only future I go have is here.September, 1956. As colonial Trinidad marches towards independence, a gentlemans club in downtown Port of Spain is entangled in a different kind of custody battle.Owned by Englishman Mansion, it promises its guests a comfortable environment in which to relax and indulge. But when the impetuous Diamond drifts in, cutting deals and putting lives at risk, the temperature begins to soar: one wrong move and everything could shatter.Martina Lairds debut play Driftwood is a deeply evocative story of self-determination and the search for family and belonging. It was runner-up for the 2024 Verity Bargate Award, and was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2026, before transferring to Kiln Theatre, London, directed by Justin Audibert.A bold and blistering exploration of colonialism and capitalism its funny, provocative and simply impossible to forget Anupama Chandrasekhar, Verity Bargate Award judgeSo vivid you can smell the heat and taste the sweat rich, human and full of vigour Driftwood is a play that captures the imagination and uncovers the past Anthony Lau, Verity Bargate Award judge

Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth.Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literatures most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. When their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. But while Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son, Houdini is determined to demonstrate its a cruel fraud. Which of them will be proved right: the genius writer of fiction or the master magician?Based on extraordinary historical events, David Haigs play Magic asks what were prepared to believe, and why. It was first performed at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2026, directed by Lucy Bailey and starring Hadley Fraser as Houdini and Haig himself as Conan Doyle.

The popular understanding of the mental load often reduces it down to managing a list of household chores and logistics. Sociologist Leah Ruppanner reveals that for women, mental load actually goes much deeper: its a complex form of emotional labour that requires thinking five steps ahead, keeping relationships intact, creating experiences that keep all members of the family happy and thriving, and more. In Drained, Ruppanner outlines the 8 distinct types of mental load performed across 7 unique stages, highlighting what makes the mental load so uniquely heavy for women. But what if we stop blaming ourselves and instead make practical, impactful changes to our lives to prioritize our energy? With eye-opening, research-based insights, Drained offers a powerful toolkit to help women create richer, less overwhelming lives filled with more meaning and joy.

THE BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TO BE BELIEVED Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpieceIve never read anything like this beforeSingular, unsettling and unforgettableA modern classic in the makingMonumental... One of those novels that reminds me why I read fiction in the first placeIm just sad that I wont be able to read it for the first time againIN THE SUMMER OF 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella.When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flaynes journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached.As the students delve deeper into the houses secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flaynes strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and ideas. Could academia live up to the hopes and dreams he had invested in it? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. Its at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.

A wild and sometimes shocking ride ... Doctors, take noteTelegraphAmbitious and fascinating Book of the Day, GuardianAbsolutely fascinating Dr Julie SmithEntrancing David RobsonA groundbreaking investigation into the nocebo effect - the placebos evil twin - urging us to rethink the mind-body connection.Illness is not simply a matter of biology. Our thoughts, conscious or otherwise, can make us feel pain or become unwell. If you experienced side effects from your Covid vaccine, the chances are that these were caused by your belief that you would experience them. When a nurse tells you this is going to hurt, it generally does - but perhaps it shouldnt.In this revelatory study, neuroscientist Helen Pilcher explores the hidden impact of the nocebo effect - the placebos evil twin. Medical studies have proven the nocebo effect to cause pain, nausea, paralysis, seizures, and even blindness. The nocebo effect impacts how we grow sick and grow old, explains why people who dont have food allergies have dietary intolerances, and why, during the pandemic, so many teenagers caught tics through social media. From Havana Syndrome to hex deaths, chronic pain and mystery illnesses, this book explains what happens when illness, psychology and society meet - and shows us what we can do to become less ill and more well.

One of the Lists Best Scottish Books of All Time Peggy is sixteen, ambitious and wants to get a job to help her rise above her current predicament. Soon, she is employed at Willie Ropers corner shop. But before long, her situation goes from bad to worse as she falls in love with her married, older employer. Looking back to her misspent youth, Peggy, now in a psychiatric hospital, is turning her teenage exploits into a romance novel and is trying to get her bedfellow, the duchess, to read the manuscript but she would rather read a Mills and Boon. As we read both sides of the tale, we learn about the fate of young Peggy and how she came to be in the duchesss company; the novel culminates in a surprising narrative punch. A book that remains both shocking and quietly revolutionary Heather Parry Agnes Owens hallmarks have been a frank irony, a deadpan gothic quality and a down-to-earth insistence on the surreality of most peoples normality Ali Smith Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

Quando uma família se muda para um país estrangeiro, uma doce garotinha ruiva encontra problemas que nunca poderia imaginar. Para fugir das dificuldades, ela quer voltar a seu país natal, onde todas as meninas tinham cabelos vermelhos e brilhantes e ninguem era diferente de ninguem.Mas sera que esse pais realmente existe ou e apenas o sonho de uma criança que ainda esta descobrindo o mundo? Com a ajuda de uma heroina muito especial, ela vai encontrar as respostas que procura e viver as aventuras que lhe permitem aprender, de uma vez por todas, que toda criança tem o direito de ser unica.

"No percurso de duas décadas de escrita reunido nesta coletânea, interioridade e exterioridade se confundem em uma voz poética marcada pelo desejo de compreender a vida na dissonância de estar consig

1. ESPOSA DEDICADA2. MÃE EXEMPLAR3. ASSASSINA POR CONVENIÊNCIA.ATÉ ONDE ELA IRÁ PARA PRESERVAR A FACHADA PERFEITA?Lalla Rook é uma mulher com uma agenda implacável: impulsionar o marido rumo à socied

E SE AS LENDAS DA SUA INFÂNCIA NÃO FOSSEM APENAS HISTÓRIAS… E TIVESSEM PASSADO VINTE ANOS ESPERANDO POR VOCÊ?Pedro é um homem em pedaços. Desde o desaparecimento de sua esposa grávida, Lúcia — a mesm

PLANOS PERFEITOS NO RESISTEM AO DESTINO.O visconde Gabriel Atwood finalmente vislumbrava uma reviravolta em sua sorte sobretudo porque o mundo inteiro acreditava que ele estava morto, graças a traiço de um inimigo implacavel. Sua unica salvaço era alcançar seu antigo mentor e atual duque de Blackmore, antes que seus perseguidores descobrissem que os rumores de seu falecimento eram, na verdade, uma estrategia.Mas, ao chegar a imponente propriedade do duque na vespera de Natal, Gabriel depara-se com uma casa vazia e mergulhada na escurido, percebendo com desespero que o amigo optara por celebrar as festas em outro lugar. Exausto e ferido, ele busca refugio nas redondezas, sem imaginar que seu caminho se cruzaria com o de uma familia excentrica e uma mulher que mudaria tudo...Enquanto isso, Esperança Shackleford no sentia o menor entusiasmo para as festas de fim de ano. Ter que suportar toda a familia sob o mesmo teto ja era um desafio, mesmo que fosse numa propriedade imponente da alta sociedade. De fato, com duas irms casadas com membros influentes, sua familia estava se acostumando com extravagancias muito acima de sua posiço social.Diferente de seus parentes, Esperança era movida pela praticidade, e no por caprichos ou otimismo. Especialmente em relaço ao pai, que frequentemente trocava o dever religioso pelo prazer de se intrometer onde no era chamado. Para ela, a promessa de um Natal focado em alegrias simples era pouco mais que uma fantasia impossivel.Tudo muda com a chegada inesperada de um forasteiro belo e misterioso, disfarçado de vagabundo, que desmaia durante um sermo natalino. Ao acolhe-lo, Esperança percebe que ele esconde segredos perigosos intrigas politicas, espies e ameaças de morte. O que começa como uma relutante ajuda se transforma em uma aventura recheada de riscos, sorrisos familiares e uma atraço irresistivel, provando que ate as pessoas mais praticas podem ser abaladas pelo destino...

Negli anni Settanta del Novecento nella piccola Varese accade un fenomeno mai piu replicato nello sport professionistico. Per dieci stagioni di fila la locale squadra di pallacanestro di proprieta di Giovanni Borghi, il capitano dindustria che con il marchio Ignis aveva segnato lepoca del boom economico portando frigoriferi e lavatrici nelle case degli italiani, si qualifica alla finale di Coppa dei Campioni, la massima competizione continentale (oggi Eurolega). Vincendone la meta. Unepopea sportiva che segna generazioni di ragazzini che sognano, negli anni a venire, di tirare a canestro come Bob Morse, saltare come Manuel Raga, passare il pallone come Aldo Ossola e svettare a rimbalzo come Dino Meneghin. Tutto intorno, una provincia in grande trasformazione che sta per incubare i primi vagiti di un movimento destinato a terremotare la Prima Repubblica, partendo proprio da Varese: la Lega Nord di Umberto Bossi.

SEIS CORAÇÕES FORAM DEVORADOS. RESTA APENAS UM.Banida para a floresta por sua mãe perversa – a rainha que governa Mazrovia com punhos de ferro –, Elka carrega uma maldição: está condenada ao exílio e