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The Island of Missing Trees
2022 || Paperback || Elif Shafak || Penguin Books UK
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021
A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hi...
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Small Worlds (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Caleb Azumah Nelson || Penguin Books UK
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL
Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems.
At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making music speaking not just to their hardships, but their joys. Grooving with his best friend, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. His youth, shame and sacrifice.
Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But wha...
On Women (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Susan Sontag || Penguin Books UK
‘A brilliant, glittering intelligence’ Sunday Times
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves
Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of...
Regenesis (Heruitgave)
feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
2023 || Paperback || George Monbiot || Penguin Books UK
For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselve...
Retrograde
2024 || Paperback || Emilee Carter || Penguin Books UK
Alex Cross Must Die (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || James Patterson || Penguin Books UK
The thirty-first instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling series.
When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don't hear the gunfire. At first.
It soon becomes clear that the plane was taken down by a rare, stolen machine gun. The list of people who could operate the weapon is short. And time runs even shorter.
But this isn't the only case the pair must solve. They're also tracking a serial killer who's a...
The Seventh Son (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Sebastian Faulks || Penguin Books UK
'Genuinely thought-provoking’ THE TIMES
'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD
‘Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer’ GUARDIAN
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is simply carrying a child for a grateful family, but the baby inside her is different from any living human. The boy, Seth, grows up...
The Dive (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Sara Ochs || Penguin Books UK
The Spy Coast (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Tess Gerritsen || Penguin Books UK
Right Kind of Wrong (Heruitgave)
why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
2024 || Paperback || Amy Edmondson || Penguin Books UK
Winner of Thinkers50 ‘World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers’
Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
‘Absolutely outstanding’ Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
‘A masterclass’ Angela Duckworth, author of Grit
‘Groundbreaking’ Forbes
We used to think of failure as a problem, to be avoided at all costs. Now, we're often told that failure is desirable - that we must ‘fail fast, fail often’. The trouble is, neither approach distinguishes the good...