The population of Earth has been falling for decades. There isn't one catastrophe to blame, just a world steadily emptying of people. And somewhere beneath its oceans, in a strange settlement called Seagarden, a woman named Rosemary is determined to do something about it.
Rosemary arrives with her five-year-old child - a child with a great face and a funny little march - after a journey by company bus, ship and submarine, finally passing through a decompression chamber and into a circle of glowing underwater pods.
Years pass. Pods empty, corridors are added, sea trees break away. Rosemary has little ... View Full Review
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There are some books that resonate because of their subject matter, and others because they take you straight back to where you came from. The Bootle Boy did both for me. Growing up in Merseyside, with my dad now living in Bootle, there was something wonderfully familiar about Les Hinton’s portrait of the place - its humour, its characters and its pride.
But the Bootle of Hinton’s childhood is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey. At 15, having left school with no qualifications, he landed a job as a copy boy ... View Full Review
Natalie Heller Mills wakes at 5.58am, ready to greet the day. She never uses the snooze button. Not once. Sobriety helps. Discipline helps too. And Natalie has discipline in spades. At 32, six months pregnant with her sixth child, she lives on Yesteryear Ranch, tucked into the rolling Idaho landscape between two mountain ranges, with husband Caleb and children Clementine, Samuel, Stetson, Jessa and Junebug. Caleb is the youngest of five boys, part of a formidable American dynasty. His father is the latest senator in a long line of senators - veteran, ultimate patriarch and quite possibly the next President of ... View Full Review
There’s something deliciously irresistible about a murder mystery set in the book world, the world in which we work. And so I was in: hook, line and sinker. Jo Furniss has a cracking time pummeling publishing, crime festivals, celebrity authors and the strange ecosystem that surrounds the industry.
At the Crème de la Crime book festival, there’s one name everyone knows: Jakob Hök. A properly Big Name Author - inky suit, hygge smile, crisp consonants and, naturally, his name printed on his book covers in considerably larger letters than the title. ... View Full Review
Life After Weight-Loss Medication arrives at exactly the right time. With GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro dominating headlines and social media feeds, separating fact from fiction has become increasingly difficult. Into that confusion steps women’s health dietitian Dr Linia Patel with a refreshingly balanced, science-led guide that cuts through the hype without dismissing the genuine potential of these groundbreaking medications.
Patel begins by reminding us that obesity is not simply a matter of willpower but one of the world’s biggest public health challenges. While GLP-1 drugs are, without doubt, the most effective pharmaceutical ... View Full Review
Maggie Flynn returns in irresistible form in this second outing for Mrs Spy, proving once again that some of the best spies are the ones everyone overlooks and underestimates.
Set in 1968, Maggie has traded the adrenaline of MI5’s legendary surveillance unit for life as an assistant case officer at Leconfield House - “the Spy Shack” - where she appears to have become little more than a desk detective.
When a Soviet KGB officer defects in London and an MI6 asset in Budapest suddenly wants to come home, Maggie is drawn into what should have been a ... View Full Review
As business books go, Next: Leading Through the New Realities by Alain Bejjani, written with Andrew St George, stands out not because it promises a revolutionary new leadership model, but because it thoughtfully brings together many of the defining challenges facing leaders today into one coherent framework. At its heart is a simple premise: the world has fundamentally changed, and leadership must change with it.
Drawing on his experience leading Majid Al Futtaim, a business with more than 50,000 employees across 17 countries and over 100 nationalities, Bejjani combines strategic insight with deeply personal storytelling. His journey from growing up in war-torn Beirut ... View Full Review
As business books go, Next: Leading Through the New Realities by Alain Bejjani, written with Andrew St George, stands out not because it promises a revolutionary new leadership model, but because it thoughtfully brings together many of the defining challenges facing leaders today into one coherent framework. At its heart is a simple premise: the world has fundamentally changed, and leadership must change with it.
Drawing on his experience leading Majid Al Futtaim, a business with more than 50,000 employees across 17 countries and over 100 nationalities, Bejjani combines strategic insight with deeply personal storytelling. His journey from growing up in war-torn Beirut ... View Full Review
The opening immediately sets the tone: “This one’s for the working-class, strip-mall, military-town kids…” It’s a love letter to outsiders chasing impossible dreams, and that sense of ambition and longing runs through every page.
When Detective Grey Holloway arrives at an execution-style murder outside a sprawling McMansion, she quickly realises why she’s been assigned the case. She bears an uncanny resemblance to the victim - a woman who could almost be her twin. Grey is impossible not to root for: brilliant, fiercely ambitious and already one of the LAPD’s ... View Full Review
There are some novels that feel original, and there are those rarities that make you wonder why no one has thought of the concept before. They feel like an instant classic. Like you've been waiting for this book. And Main Characters by Bobby Palmer is exactly that kind of book. It's the real deal.
This is a love story told by everyone except the people at the centre of it. Chapter by chapter, the narrative shifts. The photographer. Her boss. The barista. The woman at the next table. The jogger. The guy marking papers. Estate agents, eavesdroppers, passing acquaintances, prying ... View Full Review
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
George Eliot’s epigraph hangs over every page of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s A British Childhood, a book published as his tenure as UK Children’s Laureate draws to a close. It is his first book written for adults, although for decades, whether as a novelist, screenwriter, creator of beloved children’s stories or architect of unforgettable national moments, Cottrell-Boyce has been working towards this.
Drawing on hundreds of visits to schools during his laureateship, he paints a ... View Full Review
There are books that arrive at exactly the right moment in life, and there are books that give you permission to rewrite the story you've been telling yourself. Namaste Motherf*ckers is firmly in the latter camp.
Part memoir, part manifesto and part rallying cry, comedian, broadcaster and former media executive Cally Beaton's debut book is a refreshingly honest exploration of reinvention, resilience and what happens when you stop asking for permission and start backing yourself. Drawing on her own journey from boardroom executive to stand-up comedian, Beaton challenges the tired narrative that midlife is a period of decline and ... View Full Review
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