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An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson GUARDIAN Immaculately observed I found myself not wanting The Anthropologists to end FINANCIAL TIMES Savas prose is an X ray an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life RAVEN LEILANI Asya and Manu are looking at apartments envisioning their future in a foreign city Removed from the web of family and its obligations what traditions and rituals should they establish together As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing Asya a documentary filmmaker spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs anxious to know how people really live Forget about daily life chides her grandmother on the phone no one cares about that Meanwhile life back in Asya and Manu s respective home countries continues parents age grandparents get sick nieces and nephews grow up all just slightly beyond their reach But the world they re making in their new city is growing too they hope As they open up the horizons of their lives wha

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!" Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of UnforgivableTwo women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.Dawn Schiff is strange.At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrellbeautiful, popular, top sales rep five years runningis surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain s motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some conscious decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet Clearly findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of one s actions The question of free will is no mere curio of philosophy seminars A belief in free will underwrites both the religious notion of sin and our enduring commitment to retributive justice The Supreme Court has called free will a universal and persistent foundation for our system of law Any scientific developments that threatened our notion of free will would seem to put the ethics of punishing people for their bad behaviour in question In Free Will Harris debates these ideas and asks whether or not given what brain science is telling us we actually have free will

THE No.1 BESTSELLING FANTASY PHENOMENON ? With dragons, doomed lovers and magic, this will be huge' Stylist ?'An absolutely stunning fantasy world Raven Kennedy, author of international bestseller, The Plated Prisoner Series A wild ride that thrills as much as it enchants An instant classic Thea Guanzon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars He's fire and brimstone. I'm shattered ice I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down. As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeves job is to complete orders and never get caught.When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles a group of powerful fae. Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the capitals high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve Together, they seek truths that threaten to unravel everything they knew about their world and each other.

A dark contemporary romance from viral BookTok, USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling* author Emily McIntire, featuring reimagined characters from popular fairy tales and other stories.***Hes the prince of La Cosa Nostra. Shes the witch who steals his heart.Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasnt good enough for her parents, and she isnt good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But shes cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncles demands. And she doesnt have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with herand Venesa soon realises hes the only one whos ever seen her for her.Theres just one problem: she can never have him.Enzo Loverboy Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father: the strongest don in the northeast. When hes tasked with marriage, Enzo doesnt think twice.Until he meets his fiancees cousin.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life Dan Snow A huge contribution remarkable Antony Beevor BBC RADIO 4 Extremely interesting a serious piece of scholarship very well researched Ian KershawThe Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy Yet as Norman Ohler s gripping bestseller reveals the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs cocaine heroin morphine and most of all methamphetamines or crystal meth used by everyone from factory workers to housewives and crucial to troops resilience even partly explaining German victory in 1940 The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision making with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome Ohler shows they change our understanding of it Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION He always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public. Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers and fine artists, at ease with the highbrow and the mainstream. Only now, the world is changing. Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves.

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation comes a gripping, steamy dark mafia romance.This book is a must-read ***** Reader reviewI couldnt put it down, definitely recommend and the spice omg ***** Reader review'Dark and delicious' ***** Reader review'BookTok did not disappoint' ***** Reader review____________________________________Killian Carson is a predator cloaked in charm.His charisma fools everyoneexcept Glyndon King. She sees the psychopath beneath and knows she should run. But a dark part of her craves the danger, knowing hell chase her . . . and she might just want to be caught.Glyndon has never been anyones favourite, always falling short of her family's expectations.But Killian? He doesnt expect anything except that shes his now. Their schools are rivals, their families lifelong enemies, but none of that matters to him.As their pasts collide in more disturbing ways than they imagined, it could either strengthen their bond or be their undoing...Can two broken souls heal each other, or will their twisted desires tear them apart?

Discover the standalone dark mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation. 'This book was a masterpiece' ***** Reader reviewI couldnt put it down, definitely recommend and the spice omg ***** Reader review'Dark and delicious' ***** Reader review'BookTok did not disappoint' ***** Reader review______________________________________Mia Sokolov, Mafia heiress and selective mute, holds no prisoners. But when she gives Landon King a taste of his own medicine, she quickly learns that some moves come with dangerous consequences.Landon King is a genius artist, a posh rich boy, and now obsessed with Mia and the dark secret shes hiding. Despite Landons psychotic tendencies that push Mia to the edge, his obsession pulls them closer together in ways neither expected. But as Landon gets nearer to the truth about Mias past, so do the horrors that haunt her.She may have learnt to trust him. But when it all comes crashing down, will he protect or ruin her?This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note for content warnings before reading.

Discover the standalone enemies-to-lovers dark mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation. 'This book was a masterpiece' ***** Reader reviewI couldnt put it down, definitely recommend and the spice omg ***** Reader review'Dark and delicious' ***** Reader review'BookTok did not disappoint' ***** Reader review________________________________When Cecily Knight sneaks into the Heathen Clubs initiation on behalf of a rival gang, shes confident she can slip through the night unnoticed. But the moment she steps into their den, she knows shes made a fatal error.The devil has seen her. Jeremy Volkov may not technically be the devil, but as far as Cecilys concerned, hes close enough. Hes not just a member of the Heathenshes their ruthless leader and the heir to the Russian Bratva.And now, Jeremy wants one thing: Cecily. He claims it's to protect her, but Cecily knows better. He wants to possess her, own her, make her his.But Cecily is not about to be dragged into his blood-soaked world... or is she?This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note for content warnings before reading.

Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider. Notorious ladies man. Scorching hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package.And hes looking at me like I might be his next meal.But Im almost free of my toxic marriage and have sworn off men entirely. So all I see when I look back is temptation served up with a heaping side of heartbreak.The man is hard to trustand even harder to resist.Make that impossible. Because Theo is persistent. And no matter how hard I try to freeze him out, he melts my icy exterior and pulls apart all my defenses.Over a drink in a small town bar, I blurt out my deepest, darkest secrets. Then I spend the singular hottest night of my life with him.He worships my body. He makes me blush. I come alive beneath his hands.Then I tell him to forget it ever happened. I want simple, and with him it all feels complicated.It was supposed to be a one-time thing.A secret.But that little plus sign is going to make this secret impossible to keep.

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast - again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold an historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange - again . . .Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It''''s clear from the way he tracks Misery''''s every movement that he doesn''''t trust her. If only he knew how right he was . . .Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she''''s ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what''''s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory . . . alone with the wolf.

The thrilling, New York Times bestselling sequel to The Kiss of Deception.Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: there's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be barbarians.Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country . . . and her own destiny.

Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs: the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver. Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison.Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.Im the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.Hes thirty-five and all man, Im twenty-two and all . . . virgin. Hes also my fiance. Correction: my fake fiance.We start out as a bet. He doesnt believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.Its a win-win. He gets a break from his concerned familys prying, and I get a chance to shed my familys reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I cant keep my hands off of him in public.But its what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines . . .Its what transpires behind closed doors that doesnt feel like pretending at all . . .This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.He once told me hed never fall in love.And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiance.

SOMETIMES...DEAD IS BETTER'The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed.Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat.But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.

The portrayal of Stephen Dedaluss Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artists eternal imagination. Both an insight into Joyces life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.

Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraftand then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can.

International Booker Prize-shortlisted authorFrom literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, the bestelling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven comes All the Lovers in the Night , an extraordinary, deeply moving andinsightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.'Beautiful' - TIME'Irresistible' - The Irish Times'Brilliant' - The New York TimesFuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than her colleagues. But a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka awakens something new in her. As Fuyuko starts to see the world in a different light, painful memories from her past begin to resurface. Fuyuko needs to be loved, to be heard and to be seen. But living in a small world of her own making, will she find the strength to bring down the walls that surround her? Pulsing and poetic, modern and shocking, this is an unforgettable novel from Japans most exciting writer.

YOUR SUMMER OBSESSION STARTS HERE...'I loved this book' JOJO MOYES'One of the best books I've ever read' JOHN GREEN'I devoured it. So enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH_________________________________________This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to the brief time they spent playing together as children. Their unique spark is instantly reignited.What comes next is a story of friendship and rivalry, fame and creativity, betrayal and tragedy, perfect worlds and imperfect ones. And, ultimately, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.