A New York Times bestseller, Your Brain on Art is the life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts

A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the award-winning author of Night Boat to Tangier

The debut work of non-fiction by slam poet Vanessa Kisuule, this is a love letter to the musicians we adore and an unflinching look at the costs of hero worship

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon

Set in a time of acute climate crisis, The Edge of Solitude is a powerful story about the collision of ambition and principle and its devastating repercussions

An award-winning writer's literary debut novel on familial love and loss

A hilarious new comics collection from the New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator - the perfect gift for all book lovers

In the early 1960s scientists at the University of California, Berkeley set out to establish the key factors effecting health and longevity. Their results, known as the ?Alameda 7', you already know: don't smoke, drink in moderation, sleep seven to eight hours a night, exercise, eat regular meals, maintain a moderate weight, eat breakfast. Years later, however, the same team discovered an eighth factor, one that proved more important than all the others: social connection.

When we fo...

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too .

. .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society.

The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.

A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness.

She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely death.

Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the 'disease control' company she works for, Hornclaw makes an un...