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My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decades loudest controversies - or anyone who ever wondered what all the fuss was about - will fail to be interested in this personal account of when the us and them divide between youth and elders was most profound.

A gut-wrenching page-turner about rebellion and trans rage following a teen who survives attempted murder and the ghosts who seek vengeance in the Appalachian mountains.On the night Miles Abernathysixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginiancomes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the countys Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called "accident" that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.The feud began a hundred years ago when Miless great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feuds latest victim as the sheriffs son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miless bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidently kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriffs heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, theyre willing to put everything on the lineis Miles?

Memorable... One of [Chinas] most astute and sensitive foreign observersFinancial TimesCompassionate... full of warmthGuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to Chinas first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hesslers twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of Chinas "Reform generation" - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about Chinas incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.In the late 1990s, almost all of Hesslers students were the first of their families to enrol in higher education, sons and daughters of subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new world. By 2019, when Hessler arrived at Sichuan University, he found a very different China and a new kind of student - an only child whose schooling was the object of intense focus from a much more ambitious and sophisticated cohort of parents. Hesslers new students have a sense of irony about the regime but mostly navigate its restrictions with equanimity, and embrace the astonishing new opportunities Chinas boom affords. But the pressures of this system of extreme meritocracy at scale can be gruesome, even for much younger children, including his own daughters, who give him a first-hand view of raising a child in China.In Peter Hesslers hands, Chinas education system is the perfect vehicle for examining whats happened to the country, where its going, and what we can learn from it. At a time when relations between the UK and China fracture, Other Rivers is a tremendous, indeed an essential gift, a work of enormous human empathy that rejects cheap stereotypes and shows us China from the inside out and the bottom up, using as a measuring stick this most universally relatable set of experiences. As both a window onto China and a distant mirror onto our own education system, Other Rivers is a classic, a book of tremendous value and compelling human interest.

In 2007, Simonetta and her husband made the quixotic decision to open a restaurant.Without any relevant experience IT engineer Avi and novelist Simonetta put aside their careers to throw themselves (and their three young children) into their dream.This is the story of Ida, a tiny resilient restaurant situated on an unlovely arterial road between Kilburn and Kensal Rise, a barren thoroughfare with few shops and zero passing trade.This is a book for anyone who has ever fantasised about painting a name over a door and creating a refuge of delight for their neighbourhood. And its for anyone who sees the beauty in serving the food you have prepared with love for the people you love as well as the beauty in eating it.

While travelling through the Great Alfold, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, mozi in Hungarian, has long since closed. Entranced by the decaying mozi, she soon embarks on the colossal task of reviving it, compelled by the irresistible magic of the cinema, a site rooted in ritual that is steadily disappearing. Beautifully translated by Caroline Schmidt, Seeing Further is a powerfully eloquent declaration of love to the cinema and the collective experience of watching by Esther Kinsky, one of Germanys most important contemporary writers.

Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience. Rory StewartA sweeping and superbly written epicWall Street Journal A work of great ambition... an account that is informed, filled with insights and a cracking read too.Peter FrankopanIraq is where civilisation was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, and it was here by the waters of Babylon where Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape. Inspired by extensive reporting from the region and a decade delving deep into its history, Land Between the Rivers chronicles Iraqs uniquely central role on the global stage throughout the past five millennia.We begin the story with ancient Sumer and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk (Iraq) to make a great name for himself at the edge of historical time. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free and promising capital in the Middle East.Bartle Bulls remarkable, sweeping achievement reminds us that the region defined by the land between the rivers has, throughout history, played host to the contest pitting humanism against the machinations of power and fate.Conceptual originality and laudable ambition... Inspired by firsthand experience of the region.New York TimesA sweeping and superbly written epic... He is a more compassionate, and much better informed, heir to Gertrude Bell... Throughout his account, Mr. Bull highlights the human, and humanist, threads in the political tapestry.Wall Street JournalDazzling erudition and narrative flair come together in this superb history of Iraq... essential readingJustin Marozzi, author of Islamic EmpiresPanoptic, fearless and beautifully writtenChristopher de Bellaigue, author of The Lion House and The Islamic Enlightenment

A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historianA courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject The HeraldFascinating Katherine MayThese books ... deepen our understanding of how our bodies are ourselves, and how we may live... New StatesmanBeautifully written, lyrical and unflinching Charlotte Fox WeberHer passion for her topic spills into her writing; the conclusions she draws are troubling and thought-provokingThe TelegraphThe day Jessica Hamel-Akre discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as Dr Diet - it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of womens appetite and a personal unravelling.In this bold and radical book, Hamel-Akre follows Cheyne through the pages of medical studies, novels and historical scandals, meeting ash-eating mystics, wasting society girls, impoverished female fasters and early feminist philosophers, all of whom were once grappling with nascent ideas around food, longing and the body. In doing so, she uncovers the eighteenth-century origins of both todays diet culture and her own troubled relationship with wanting.Blending history and memoir, The Art of Not Eating will change the way we look at appetite, desire, rationality and oppression, and show how it all got tangled up with what we eat.

A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish. FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You CanEverything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid bare in this gripping and infuriating insider account... Funny, illuminating and beautifully written. LIAM VAUGHAN, author of Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in HistoryCrypto Confidential tells the salacious story of the industry everyone is talking about right now. In doing so, it sheds light on some of the most scandalous financial crimes of the twenty-first century. From billion-dollar fraud cases to international money laundering cartels, political bribery and even faked deaths, it lifts the lid on the intricate and immense web of malpractice that crypto founders spin to trap ordinary investors.Written by a prominent and well-connected insider, Crypto Confidential provides a first-hand account of how the industry truly operates, and how every aspect is engineered for one purpose: to make vast amounts of fast money for those on the inside, by any means necessary.

THE NEXT NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE UKS FAVOURITE CRIME WRITERS WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD.The body of a wealthy businessman is discovered in the river, but this was no accidental drowning.He was shot before his body entered the water. The police question the dead mans young girlfriend and his two adult children, all of whom are hoping to inherit his fortune.Before the killer is found, the dead mans girlfriend is murdered, and pressure mounts for Geraldine and her team to solve the case.Geraldines partner is called away to work undercover. Soon after he leaves, their baby vanishes along with the child minder.Geraldine struggles to focus on the murder investigation while she desperately tries to find her child. Afraid that one of her colleagues may be in contact with the kidnapper, she knows she has to work alone, but time may be running out for her child.The next thrilling crime investigation, and the 22nd Instalment in the bestselling Geraldine Steel series.

THE 2025 HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELFrom New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimms Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novic, Alix E. Harrow and Nettle & Bone.Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesnt have any doors between roomsthere are no secrets in this house! Cordelia isnt allowed to have a single friend. The only time she feels truly free is on her daily rides with her mothers beautiful white horse, Falada.But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents cant force their daughters to be silent and motionlessobedientfor hours or days on end. Other mothers arent . . . sorcerers. After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelias mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelias mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage. Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother. How the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. She knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.

This instant New York Times bestseller is a visceral Victorian gothic horror of a young autistic trans boy who can commune with spirits, forced into a haunted sanitorium.Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, hell be married by the end of the year. It doesnt matter that hes needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sicknessa mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madnessand shipped away to Braxtons Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxtons innards and expose its rotten guts to the worldas long as the school doesnt break him first.

Barnes & Nobles April Book Club PickAn Amazon Top 10 Editors PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary HubSet in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainys private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.

An untried acolyte desperate to speak with the orisha she worships accidentally reignites a cosmic war. The fate of her gods and of her world now lies in her inexperienced hands. Perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Daughters of Nri, and Godkiller.Ashake is an acolyte in the temple of Ifa, yearning for the day she is made a priest and sent out into the world to serve the orisha. But of all the acolytes, she is the only one the orisha refuse to speak to. For years she has watched from the sidelines as peer after peer passes her by and ascends to full priesthood.Desperate, Ashake attempts to summon and trap an orishaany orisha. Instead, she experiences a vision so terrible it draws the attention of a powerful enemy sect and thrusts Ashake into the center of a centuries-old war that will shatter the very foundations of her world.

It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. Charlotte may be a spinster aunt with a seemingly sparse life, but beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths.Boating down the Rhine one day, Charlotte sights a fellow traveller, who releases the hissing floodwaters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte towards the watershed of her life, stretching her imagination to its limit.Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981, Ann Schlees heady novel creates a tension that is as compelling as it is mysterious, forcing her characters to confront each other as well asthemselves over one hot summer abroad.

What has the small nation of Wales given to the wide world?Well, to name but a few examples: the NHS, magical drama, mail order, sleeping bags, the basis of the internet, the Town of Books, the first powered flight, presidents, prime ministers and Nobel prize-winners.People of Welsh heritage have helped shape the culture and constitution of the United States; they have enriched British culture in innumerable ways through writing, acting, painting, poetry, singing and architecture; they have amassed a fantastic range of sporting achievements; and they made their own unique mark on history.Welsh history deserves to be rewritten in a manner that highlights and celebrates its achievements both past and present. The 100 reasons in this book do just that. They are pathfinders to a confident tomorrow as the Royal Badge of Wales reads in translation: The Red Dragon points the way.

A bloody, subversive and darkly funny story of sympathy for the devil as the New York Times-bestselling author turns classic slasher cinema on its headperfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.1989, Lamesa, Texas. A community driven by oil and cotton a town where everyone knows everyone elses business.Tolly Driver, seventeen, a good kid with more potential than application, exists on the outskirts with his best friend, Amber. They navigate the hellscape of the teenage social scene, sticking together in a place that doesnt know how to be different.But when they go to a fateful party at Deek Mastertons house a party that ends in a series of gruesome, brutal and extravagant murders Tollys world gets flipped upside-down. Because some slashers are born in violence and retribution, some were born that way and some were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time

A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Editors Choice A New York Post Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Biography/MemoirHilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for SmokingMight be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyableDaily TelegraphA spin doctor to the rich and corrupt spills his secrets... starts with the crack of a Jack Reacher thrillerThe New York TimesThe man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media. After nearly two decades in the PR business, Phil Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry thats made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what hes been up to for the past twenty years - and it isnt pretty. From helping win the Qatar World Cup bid, to a four-day Las Vegas bacchanal with a dictators son, and helping to land a Middle Eastern dictators wife a glowing profile in Vogue at the same time the Arab Spring broke out, Elwood reveals all his slippery tricks for seducing journalists in order to create chaos and cover for politicians, dictators and spies. But as Phil moved up the ranks, he felt worse and worse about the sleaziness of it all - and his role in it - until he received a shocking wake-up call from the FBI. This risky game nearly cost Phil his life and his freedom. Seeing the light, he has decided to tell the full truth about who is the worst human. _____A rollicking, unexpectedly affecting story. . . Its going to be one of the big, buzzy Beltway books of the year. PoliticoPhil Elwood has written a book about his Washington life thats part therapy, part cautionary tale ? and quite funny . . . What makes Elwoods story stand out from the typical Washington read is that his personal demons are so intertwined with his professional choices . . . Elwoods prose is zippy, even Sorkin-esque, and he relishes dark humor. The Washington PostIf Hunter S. Thompson billed clients by the hour, it would look like All The Worst Humans by Phil Elwood. The pacing and storytelling propel the books epic sweep across the darkside of DC and global hotspots. Even the most experienced in PR will learn things they did not know, and Elwoods gripping personal story is an unexpected and wild ride. Bill McCarren, former Executive Director, National Press ClubA lively, often hilarious, blood-chilling tale. Sam Kashner, Air MailA redemption story about becoming a better human, a story Elwood tells with vulnerability, heart, and brutal honesty. James Kirchick, New York Times bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay WashingtonAn exhilarating ride through the underbelly of global power structures. Ben Smith, author of Traffic and editor in chief of SemaforI raced through this book and was gripped by every page. Sophie Heawood

An intriguing series of tales about love affairs with cars which, like human relationships, can go badly wrong. Christian Wolmar, best-selling author of The Subterranean Railway and Fire & SteamThree Million Miles in a Volvo and Other Curious Car Stories is a whistle-stop tour of fifty fascinating petrolheads and how they changed car culture for good.Meet: The Prince of Darkness! The Sweeneys ace stunt driver! Renaults doyenne of colours and fabrics!Discover: A pathetic steam car! Metal underpants! The unseen brilliance of Jaguars!And find out exactly how one man adored his Volvo so much that he drove it around the world 120 times to cruise into the record books.

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA perfectly timed narrative history No one who crosses the Channel can fail to learn from, and enjoy, this original and absorbing book. Patrick MarnhamIt was half a million years ago that Britain first parted from Europe. As ice melted, water smashed through the chalky land bridge that separated Britain from the continent of Europe, forming what we now know as the English Channel, and what the French call La Manche. The second parting, far from being a force of nature, was the choice of Britains islanders disillusioned with continental rule.In The Busy Narrow Sea, Robin Laurance tells the story of the people whose lives have become entwined over the centuries with this iconic seaway, presenting a broad sweep of carefully researched historical fact lightened with a host of colourful anecdotes. This diverse tale covers artists captivated by its light; writers inspired by its power; tunnellers relishing its challenges; entrepreneurs turning fishing villages into smart resorts; smugglers ruling and adventurers conquering the waves; and much more besides, from Napoleon through the Second World War and into the modern day.

Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the gathering together of his lifetimes work. Although widely known as Matisses Chapel, the buildings remarkable modern design and decoration emerged from a surprising friendship and artistic engagement with a group of Dominican sisters and brothers keen to see the Church embrace Modern Art and modern artists. With the advantage of hitherto unexplored archive and printed materials this study highlights that mutual encounter and explores how their shared artistic adventure became for Matisse himself an opportunity to express his religious vision of art and to rediscover his natal Catholic Faith in its post-war avant-garde form.