INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER""A delicately woven novel with an utterly original premise, it ensnared me from the very first page.” — Emilia Hart, bestselling author of WeywardFrom the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of gothic suspense about a powerful family, the magical and dangerous silk their fortune is built upon, and the exploitative history they are desperately ...

Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.Brainstorm is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they're designed by evolution to be the way they are.Created by Ned Glasier and Emily Lim with Company Three (formerly Islington Community Theatre), in collaboration with neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemo...

*******Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award********SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily MailThe venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have just...

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."CS LEWISRetirement can be a jungle of decision-making.What sort of assets to invest in? How long will your money last? Are you eligible for any age pension? Is downsizing right for you? How much should you spend now, and how much would you like to leave to your kids?Add the challenges of finding the right advice, understanding new products that keep evolving, ...

Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers?Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us.In Beneath the Skin, fifteen writers each explore a different body part: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food; Thomas Lynch celebrates t...

Fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower will definitely want this picture book about a train engine and his devoted engineer.Engineer Bob has a secret: His train engine, Charlie the Choo-Choo, is alive…and also his best friend. From celebrated author Beryl Evans and illustrator Ned Dameron comes a story about friendship, loyalty, and hard work.

Ned and the magical Circus of Marvels are back in a second rip-roaring, page-turning adventure!Ned and his family are trying to be ordinary except for the small fact that they AREN’T. AT ALL. Because on the run up to Christmas everything is ruined when all the world’s gold goes missing, along with its leading scientists. Which doesn't really have anything to do with Ned… until it does. When an oily thief and his pet monster turn up at Ned's door, Ned finds himself on the run again…...

What is "Divas of the Deepest Chocolate"?A collection of memories and wishes brought about by seeing and knowing some of the best and most beautiful avatars of melanin-rich magnificence to grace this earth.Have you ever taken notice of the soft, delicious glow of a chocolate bar left too long in a car during summertime?Or perhaps the way a candy Easter Bunny gets "all over everything" if held too long between bites? All chocolatey and messy, but tasty and fantastic....

The full origin story for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man—perfect for early readers! This debut entry in Marvel’s chapter book series gives kids easy-to-read origin stories for all of their favorite Super Heroes!Peter Parker is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man—but he wasn’t always this amazing! Discover the moment a radioactive spider bit unsuspecting high-school student Peter Parker, gifting him with incredible abilities! Witness the personal tragedy th...

Writers Sidekick Resource Hub gathered great authors and their literature to create In Isolation Las Vegas Anthology 2021.Inspiring People Through the COVID-19 Quarantine In 2020, we faced a new virus that spread worldwide, and quarantine isolation helped prevent the spread of the virus to the uninfected. It was like a scene straight out of the movie. While enduring quarantine, people needed something uplifting to cheer them up, which could lighten the mood and give hope for the fu...

A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped itThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was...

As parents we all want the best for our children, but so often over-manage every aspect of their lives, leaving them overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and at risk of mental health problems as adults.So how can we prevent this from happening?Over their combined sixty years of practice, William Stixrud, a clinical neuropsychologist, and Ned Johnson, the founder of an elite tutoring agency, have worked with thousands of children all facing this...