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In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the homes many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture. Through hearing stories of Helens chosen way of living, the man begins to see that his story is not actually over rather, he is being offered a chance to buy his way into the simple life, close to the land, thats always been out of reach to him. But as evening fades into black, he will learn that the asking price may be much higher, and stranger, than anticipated. Philosophically and formally adventurous, at once intimate and cosmic in scope, Helen of Nowhere asks: What must we give up in exchange for true happiness?

Following her best friends passing, Chloe has been finding solace in the world through her VR headset, including going on virtual dates with the charming Blaine amongst the glittering skyline of Manhattan.Everything seems to be perfect, except for the obvious, that Blaine is just an avatar she doesnt know in the real world. As their chemistry grows, offering Chloe the escape she has been seeking, Blaine throws out the idea that Chloe should go to New York to find him. But going to New York will open more than just a search for the mysterious Blaine, as the city holds old wounds too with Chloes ex boyfriend Jimmy now living there. The memories of Jimmy, as well as of her friend Kerry, begin to come flooding back with each step closer Chloe takes toward New York City.Deciding to go and find Blaine, Chloe finds herself reuniting with Jimmy and she is forced to ask herself the question of what it is that she really wants.

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet.Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, Bplastic is based on Matthew Rices experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a post-industrial, post-Troubles society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts.Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the workers experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Ranciere calls the labourers in love with the intellectual nights and those intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.plastics evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.

The key to her future is trapped in the past...In 1715, the Earl of Nithsdale is sentence to be beheaded for his part in the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence.In 1978, Jane Maxwell is plagued with doubts about her engagement. When tragedy leaves her fiance Will near death, Janes guilt makes her determined to save him... somehow.On a desperate and dangerous quest for answers, Jane finds herself trapped in the past. Convinced that saving Nithsdale will also save Will, Jane embarks on a daring plot to rescue the Earl from the Tower of London.Past and present become entwined in a gripping race against time, and both will be changed by one womans determination.

Between 2016 and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and grassroots activists, seasoned political veterans and novice political amateurs, this disparate assemblage of forces was brought together by one aim: stopping Brexit. What began as the unfocused, often deeply emotional belief that Britain must not leave the EU morphed, fleetingly, into a mass movement: the Peoples Vote campaign, a mess of organisations united by the call for a second referendum on Europe.From the stunts of youth campaigners and the online antics of new pro-EU influencers to the million-person marches of 2019 and the launch of new centrist parties, many people, serious and unserious alike, dedicated themselves to securing a new vote. A campaign premised on telling the nation that they had gotten it catastrophically wrong was always going to be hard, and it was only made more so by parliamentary maths that never seemed to quite add up. Based on interviews with the people who were there, No Second Chances tells the dramatic, bizarre, and (at times) embarrassing story of one of recent British historys most feted roads not taken.

Eat Pray Love meets Want.Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again after divorce.Its an entertaining, emotional and geographical journey that bounces around the world from Florida to India, Lapland to Hong Kong, as the authors -both leading travel writers - relay their experiences as midlife women love, loss, parenthood, divorce, menopause along with the tales of the inspirational women they meet along the way, and the growth of their friendship.

In a ravaged future ruled by the descendants of those who caused the climate collapse, a teenager with a remarkable gift must flee for her life and fight to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world The Times`Utterly compelling a masterful and all-too-recognisable portrait of climate collapse and the politics of greed. We need this book now more than ever Eve Smith`Paul Hardisty is a visionary Luke McCallin`A riveting eco-thriller Crime Fiction Lover_____The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save whats left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, shes forced to flee armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her familys true past.Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones and bring hope to a broken world.Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardistys critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if theres still time?____`Smart, gripping, and all too plausible announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher Tim Glister`Hardisty is a fine writer Lee Child`A compelling, moving story of survival in a dying world a novel that might have actually predicted our future Ewan Morrison`The book Ive been waiting and hoping for Paul Waters`Hardisty holds a mirror up to the titans of todays very real world problems very plausible and terrifyingly so SciFi Now

Forget 1066 the making of England began centuries earlier.After decades of devastating raids, Viking armies first overwintered in England in 850. In doing so, they opened a century of conflict and reaching ambition. In Norway, Harald Fairhair rose from a regional chieftain to become its first king, while in England Alfred the Great preserved Wessex from conquest and laid the foundations for unity. His successors extended that vision, leading to the creation of a single English kingdom after the meeting of kings at Eamont Bridge in 927.Meanwhile, the struggle for Norways throne erupted among Haralds heirs, with Eric Bloodaxe briefly claiming the Crown before being overthrown by his younger brother, Hkon. Upon fleeing to Britain, Eric was allowed the York throne by King Edred. After his violent death in 954, there would be no more kings in York.This turbulent century saw kings rise and fall; it saw rivalry, betrayal and open conflict. Out of the chaos of shifting allegiances and warfare, England and Norway began to take shape as the forebears of the countries we know today. In First Kings, join R.A.J. Waddingham on an action-packed, page-turning adventure through the age of the Vikings.

WINNER OF THE AGATHA AND ANTHONY AWARDSAn unsettling domestic thrillerThe TelegraphAn ending that will take your breath away...I loved this book I.S Berry The Peacock and The SparrowAnnie Anh Le Shaw has everything she once dreamed of: a thriving art career, a beautiful home, a loving husband and daughter. But when her mother a Vietnam War refugee dies suddenly, the fragile balance of her life shatters. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder, dormant for years, resurfaces with terrifying force. Only this time, her intrusive thoughts seem to be coming true.When a powerful art patron disappears, suspicion turns towards Annie. Then she wakes in a hotel room, naked, beside a dead body, with no memory of how she got there. As the investigation tightens and her mind fractures, Annie is forced to confront the ghosts of her childhood and the legacy of her mothers trauma.[An] exhilarating debutPublishers Weekly

And so yes, well, Id simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, Id dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the citys sewers, and no one ever saw it again. Set in a rather privileged world of intelligent and gentle people, a father, mother, son and the fathers long-time mistress tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, here takes on the subject of love - suffocating and freeing. Remorse, resentment, joy and sorrow play out against the background of a pleasurable and sophisticated but violent city.We dont understand ourselves, and we dont know why we do what we do. Ideally, then, dangerous weapons should be kept out of our hands at all times, but in romantic, sexual, and familial relationships we carry the weapon of our own feelings strapped to our chests whether we like it or not.Wallace ShawnWhat We Did Before Our Moth Days premiered at the Greenwich House Theater, New York, in March 2026.

A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale. Ayegul SavaIn the wake of her fathers death, Agathe leaves New York and returns to her childhood home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. Agathe and her sister Vera have not seen each other in all that time apart. Now, they must empty their home before it is knocked down. Vera stopped speaking when she was six, and as the pair clean and sift through a lifetimes worth of belongings, old memories and resentments surface.Tender, melancholic and evocative, The Old Fire is Elisa Shua Dusapins most personal and moving novel yet. An exploration of time and memory, of family and belonging, of the unsaid and the unanswered, it is also a graceful and profound exploration of how loss and grief can live alongside life and abundance.

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: loves repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, to this supreme passion. Edited to offer the modern reader easier access to this classic text, this abridged version preserves all the fantastic variety of the original, as Burton knits together stories and quotations drawn from millennia of European literature in order to understand loves causes, consequences, and cures.We encounter gods and goddesses, ancient kings and queens, lascivious monks and pure-hearted shepherds, marriages happy and unhappy, allurements natural and unnatural, and, most importantly, many cures for love-melancholy, from the obvious to the arcane. Intricate yet commonsensical, learned yet earthy, and twinkling throughout with ironic warmth, Burtons masterpiece speaks to the deepest concerns of the human heart as well today as it did four centuries ago.

This cosmological work presents a geocentric model of the universe, dividing the cosmos into the sublunary sphere of change and the eternal, unchanging celestial realm. Aristotle argues for the spherical shape of the earth and the circular motion of the heavenly bodies, composed of a unique fifth element called aether. The text explores the nature of weight, movement, and the finite structure of the universe. It represents a comprehensive attempt to map the physical architecture of the heavens and the laws that govern them.

Lizzie Eustace, a beautiful and cunning widow, finds herself at the center of a scandalous legal battle over a valuable diamond necklace she claims as a heirloom. Her web of lies and manipulations entraps suitors, lawyers, and family members, exposing the greed and hypocrisy lurking beneath the surface of polite society. The narrative combines elements of a mystery with biting social satire, as the diamonds become a symbol of the hollow values of the upper class. Lizzies relentless pursuit of wealth and status creates a chaotic yet mesmerizing spectacle of deception.

Set sail for the ultimate high-seas adventure involving buried gold, mutiny, and the most iconic pirate in literary history, Long John Silver. This timeless narrative defines the pirate genre, delivering a gripping tale of a young boys perilous journey from the Admiral Benbow Inn to a distant, skeleton-haunted island. The complexity of Silvers character, balancing charm with ruthlessness, adds a layer of moral ambiguity to the fast-paced action. It is the gold standard for tales of exploration, courage, and the lust for wealth.

Access the entire corpus of Western philosophys founding father in a single comprehensive collection, spanning his early Socratic dialogues to his late metaphysical works. Readers can trace the evolution of Platos thought on justice, reality, art, and politics through the distinct phases of his literary career. This anthology provides the full context necessary to understand the depth and breadth of Platonic idealism and its massive footprint on history. It is an indispensable resource for witnessing the birth of critical thinking and the dialogue form.

Aristotle addresses the nature of logical fallacies and deceptive arguments used to mislead in debate. He categorizes these "sophisms" and provides methods for detecting and refuting them, emphasizing the importance of genuine reasoning over rhetorical trickery. The work serves as a manual for dialectic defense, equipping the reader to distinguish between valid proofs and apparent truths. It is an essential component of the Organon, refining the tools of logic and critical thinking.

Dive into a rigorous debate concerning the true nature of rhetoric and its place in civil society, as Socrates confronts one of the most famous sophists of his time. The dialogue relentlessly questions whether the art of persuasion is a noble pursuit or merely a tool for manipulation and flattery without regard for justice. Plato argues passionately for the health of the soul over the power of speech, suggesting that it is better to suffer wrong than to commit it. This work stands as a powerful critique of political corruption and the moral responsibilities of those who wield influence.

While awaiting execution in his prison cell, Socrates is visited by his friend Crito, who has arranged a safe escape. Socrates refuses to flee, engaging Crito in a dialogue about the nature of justice and the citizens obligation to the laws of the state. He argues that responding to injustice with further injustice is wrong, and that he must abide by the legal verdict of the city that raised him. It is a powerful examination of civil obedience and the social contract.