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'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman<br/><br/>'It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just read it. You'll see' The Times<br/><br/>'Funny, tender and sad' Sunday Express<br/><br/>'If you liked Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, you'll love this novel' Good Housekeeping<br/><br/>'One of the richest explorations of family dysfunction I've read' the i newspaper<br/><br/>'Shades of Fleabag in this smart, funny drama' Mail on Sunday <br/><br/>'An enjoyably bittersweet novel about a dysfunctional modern family' Independent<br/><br/>'Razor-sharp ' Observer<br/><br/>'One of the funniest novels you'll read this year' Guardian<br/><br/> <br/><br/>---<br/><br/>THE BOOK THAT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN<br/><br/>---<br/><br/> <br/><br/>For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial.<br/><br/>There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything ... <br/><br/>As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended.<br/><br/>They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments. From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.<br/><br/>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING5* 'I adored this book'5* 'A brilliant novel about a dysfunctional family'5* 'This book blew me away'5* 'Loved, loved, loved this! Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully poignant' 5* 'The best book i've read this year'

New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff's extraordinary access to White Housee aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.

"Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the <i>New York Times</i>, "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, Kathryn Harrison concurred: "Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse." In this "journal" Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world's contrasting reactions to Princess Diana's death and the starkly brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk in a store: Ernaux's thought-provoking observations map the world's fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life.

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

<b><i>'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' </i></b><b>Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021</b><br/><br/> Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years.<br/><br/> Now freed, working as a pro-democracy campaigner in enforced exile, Khodorkovsky brings us the insider's battle to save his country's soul. Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, <i>The Russia Conundrum</i> maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West.<br/><br/> With unparalleled insight, written with <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author Martin Sixsmith, <i>The Russia Conundrum</i> exposes the desires and damning truths of Putin's Russia, and provides an answer to the West on how it must challenge the Kremlin - in order to pave the way for a better future.

Following his New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond) - from microbes to economies and the expanding universe To answer the most important questions of our age, and secure our future, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards. Grounded in history and drawing on the latest science, with much recourse to art and classic literature, Size explains the regularities - and peculiarities - of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales), the Earth (from asteroids to volcanic eruptions), technical advances (from architecture to transportation), and societies and economies (from cities to wages). We learn, for example, the rules governing beauty, why a biosphere needs diversity, how to predict the size of a country, why bigger animals need proportionately less food and how a particular level of wealth inequality is inherent. Is bigger always better? Can something keep growing indefinitely, or be too big to fail? Vaclav Smil tackles this goliath subject and it is no exaggeration to say that this tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything. 'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates 'The nerd's nerd' Guardian