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This is a text about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down. But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy. Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments – whether it’s a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday – and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.
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Yotam Ottolenghi brings his inspiring, flavour-forward approach to comfort cooking, delivering new classics that taste of home. A bowl of pasta becomes caramelised onion orecchiette with hazelnuts & crispy sage, a warming soup is cheesy bread soup with savoy cabbage & cavolo nero, and a plate of mash is transformed into garlicky aligot potato with leeks & thyme. Weaving memories of childhood and travel with over 100 irresistible recipes, ‘Ottolenghi Comfort’ is a celebration of food and home – of the connections we make as we cook, and pass on from generation to generation.
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Philby, Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world and shared every secret. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone – and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, ‘A Spy Among Friends’ unlocks what was perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.
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The inside story of the world’s most successful hedge fund – and its enigmatic founder, Ray Dalio.
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Explore the sun-drenched flavors of the Mediterranean with this comprehensive culinary guide.
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Discover how practicing the art of kindfulness – being mindfully kind to yourself and others – can boost your happiness, relax your nervous system, reduce blood pressure and inflammation, relieve muscular pain, and even slow down aging at the genetic level.
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Featuring 60+ exciting recipes that are fun to make, delicious to tuck into and written with beginners in mind, ‘Let’s Cook’ is a fantastic tool for building kitchen confidence through flavour-packed food that the whole family can enjoy. Buddy’s cookbook takes children (and parents!) on a real adventure through a whole rainbow of tasty dishes, and builds on their cooking skills, supported by simple recipe methods and enticing food photography. Chapters include breakfast and brunch, family favourites and skills for life, as well as a dedicated pasta chapter, a collection of seasonal favourites, speedy after-school snacks and some much-loved puds and party treats. Made with accessible ingredients, and peppered with helpful hints and tips from Buddy throughout, these recipes make real, everyday food super-achievable.
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‘Pax’ is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with ‘Rubicon’, and continued with ‘Dynasty’, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of the pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world’s ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from the gilded capital to the barbarous realms beyond the frontier; from emperors to slaves.
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Peruse the latest releases in indie favourites Pages of Hackney and Kirkdale Books, get wanderlust among the vast shelves of Stanfords and bag well-thumbed second-hand treasures in Bloomsbury’s Skoob. London is a world-leading literary mecca and bookshops here are more than just places to pick up paperbacks – from community favourite (and the city’s first Black bookshop) Beacon Books to queer Soho institution Gay’s the Word, these 50 shops are the capital’s finest places to seek out new stories. Time to clear some space on your to-be-read shelf.
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Because making cocktails and apertifs should never be a headache, more than 100 classic or original recipes and 40 Apertifs, to make sans the fuss!
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Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become. Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict. This book invites us into the mind of one of the most interesting actors on the British political stage.
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‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS
‘I’m not sure I’ve ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it’s also a ‘memoir of miraculous survival’. I can’t recommend it enough’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ
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Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble – on and on – down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we’ll see geometry fold, we’ll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we’ll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then – the bottom. Where time and space end, and the white hole is born. With lightness and magic, here Rovelli traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research, of the uncertainty and joy of going where we’ve not yet been. Guiding us to the edge of theory and experiment, he invites us to go beyond, to experience the fever and the disquiet of science. Here is the extraordinary life of a white hole.
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When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn’t. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity – all we have to meet the world – so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting ‘the children’).
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Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In ‘Unruly’, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.
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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys – there’s a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation’s favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask: Did the Trojan War actually happen? What was the most disastrous party in history? Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover? Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis?
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