A Sunday Times, Observer, Waterstones and BBC Highlight for 2024

'Beautiful, immersive . . . Told through the lives of four extraordinarily resilient and idealistic Chinese women' JULIA LOVELL

'A book of delights. Yuan Yang shows us the real China in all its complexity' JOHN SIMPSON

'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN

This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures.

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An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.

?A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today

'This is a history of epic scope that brings together the empires of the steppe land with the caravan cities of the Silk Road and imperial China' Martyn Rady, author of The Middle Kingdoms

'A sweeping account of forty-five centuries of nomadic tribes' Gillian Tett, Financial Times

'Flips the script to present the booted, felt-c...

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it - sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies.

In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn't alone - some predictions suggest that in a few years, on...