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Knife Skills for Beginners (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Orlando Murrin || Penguin Books UK
Richard Osman meets MasterChef. In this cookery school, murder is on the menu...
'Delicious fun!' Tess Gerritsen
'Knife Skills for Beginners is a joy.' S. J. Bennett
‘A deliciously dark slice of murder and mystery.’ Chris Whitaker
'If Ruth Rendell had teamed up with Delia Smith they’d have produced something like this.’ J. M. Hall
‘Dazzlingly sharp with a wit that sparkles off the page.' Jane Corry
A recipe for disaster.
When chef Paul Delamare takes a job teaching at an exclusive r...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Frank Trentmann || Penguin Books UK
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital que...
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The Experience Machine (Heruitgave)
how Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
2024 || Paperback || Andy Clark || Penguin Books UK
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds
‘One of the most important books yet published this century’ Spectator
For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor.
At the f...
My Girlfriend is a Witch
2024 || Paperback || Eva Knight || Penguin Books UK
The Underworld (Heruitgave)
Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
2024 || Paperback || Susan Casey || Penguin Books UK
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets.
'Masterful and mesmerizing . .
. an irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose.' Sy Montgomery, author of Soul of an Octopus 'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post 'A fascinating history' Time'Casey’s descriptions of the shimmeringly strange life teeming below the wav...
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Riku Onda || Penguin Books UK
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN
- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
- A MAJOR MOVIE RELEASE IN JAPAN
'A thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship, and personal demons' OBSERVER
'Propulsive and poetic' KIRKUS
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Welcome to a magical world...
Sparks (Heruitgave)
China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
2024 || Paperback || Ian Johnson || Penguin Books UK
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘Johnson’s stories bring … this history chillingly alive’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author of Land of Big NumbersA documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodged the secret police: thes...
Nightwatching (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Tracy Sierra || Penguin Books UK
The End Crowns All
2024 || Paperback || Bea Fitzgerald || Penguin Books UK
The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.
Love caused this war. At least, that’s what the stories will say.
When Cassandra’s patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy – and all the power that comes with it – she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, she discovers just how very far she has to fal...