A book for book lovers, The Last Bookshop is a uplifting novel that reminds us never to underestimate the power of people who love books. Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service hand-picking titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade for retail, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the CBD, and the last independent retailer on a street given over to high-end labels. Profits are small, b...

Mia's best friend Holly died when they were thirteen. But years later, Holly still hasn't left her.Spending the summer in New York, Mia is hoping to escape the visions of Holly that haunt her life at home. There she meets Rav, a parapsychology student, who convinces her to take part in a study into why some people see ghosts. Soon she is caught up in the investigation of Halcyon House, which is reputed to be haunted by a poltergeist. As Mia confronts her fears, what she learns abou...

Her body is intact, but her brain is dead. I have essentially the opposite problem.Eighteen-year-old Rosa is on the verge of the greatest change of her life. Her nerve disease is slowly killing her so when a doctor from Boston chooses her as a candidate for an experimental brain transplant, she and her family move from London in search of a miracle. Sylvia - a girl from Massachusetts - is brain dead after having fallen into a frozen lake and her parents have agreed to donate her bod...

Brainology: The Curious Science of Our Minds is a fast‑moving popular science collection that takes you inside the most mysterious place you'll ever live: your own brain.Why can pain feel unbearable even when tests show "nothing wrong"? How can a simple mirror calm phantom limb pain? What does neuroscience reveal about the interpreter's brain when thoughts become speech in real time? Why do dark winters affect mood and sleep for some people but not others? Are smartphones ...

The memoir of a dyed-in-the-wool racist forced to change his beliefs to succeed in the progressively changing times of twentieth-century America.This true story is about George O'Hare and his upbringing in a segregated, White, Irish Catholic, Chicago neighborhood. As an adult moving up the corporate ladder at a time when America was transitioning from Jim Crow to Civil Rights, George was asked by his manager to join the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which often worked...

What if you had a birthday party on a spaceship? Or if you planted a tree on Mars? Or planets were made of diamond? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young!Prepare to learn all about the Universe from supernovas to satellites and astronauts to aliens. However, this isn't another dry textbook. You'll be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make you think about space in a whole new ...

An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas.Issue #7: July 2019Featuring Ideas by:Gaia Vince, Michael Regnier, Jenny Diski, Geoff Watts, Lucy Maddox, Emma Young, Jo Marchant, Peter Aldhous, Mary O’Hara, Shayla Love, and Will Storr

"I don't know anyone who can take complex scientific concepts and make them more accessible, stimulating and fun than Emma Young. It is truly a kind of genius." - Bill Bryson----Find out the answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about animals with science author Emma Young.Prepare to learn all about animals from sharks to spiders and bats to bears in this engaging question-and-answer book.What...

"I don't know anyone who can take complex scientific concepts and make them more accessible, stimulating and fun than Emma Young. It is truly a kind of genius." - Bill Bryson----Find out the answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions with science author Emma Young.Prepare to learn all about the human body, from blood vessels to the brain and nerves to nutrients, in this engaging question-and-answer book.

"I don't know anyone who can take complex scientific concepts and make them more accessible, stimulating and fun than Emma Young. It is truly a kind of genius." - Bill Bryson----Find out the answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about the Earth with science author Emma Young.Prepare to learn all about the Earth from rocks to rivers and countries to climate in this engaging question-and-answer book.

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #6: June 2019Featuring Ideas by:Alex O’Brien, Hayley Birch, Catherine de Lange, Carl Zimmer, Moheb Costandi, Virginia Gewin, Emma Young, Samira Shackle, and Kendall Powell

'Accessible and fun ... truly a kind of genius!' Bill Bryson----Everything you thought you knew about your senses is wrong!How many senses do you have? I bet you said five. But you'd be wrong. You have THIRTY-TWO!This SENSE-ational human body book explores the thirty-two amazingly awesome, broccoli-hating, wee-sniffing senses that help you figure out the world around you. They tell you ...How some people can SMELL sick...