A free-spirited artist, a wandering astronomer, and an instant connection.Is their future painted in the stars?Perhaps. But landscape painter Blair Silvestri hasn’t time for stargazing—or love. It’s her immediate, more precarious situation that she needs to focus on for now. Without a job or money, she faces a one-way trip back home to New Zealand to face her father’s smug ‘I told you so’. And a cheating ex hasn’t left her confident in her judgments about ...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'...

There's only one you**!**When God created the blueprint for the universe, you were already part of the plan. Science and Scripture show you're a unique, brilliantly designed, and intelligent individual who fills a role no one else can. So the more Perfect You you become, the more fulfilling and impactful your life will be.What is the Perfect You? It's how you process and exhibit your uniqueness through the way you think, f...

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love'I loved it' COCO MELLORS'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' GABRIELLE ZEVIN'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' MONICA HEISEY'Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written' GRAHAM NORTON'Easily 13/10 . . . Funny, lovely, romantic' MARIAN KE...

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found.This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. Drawing ...

Reincarnated as a girl far in the future, former Hero-King Inglis has the chance to hone her fighting skills. The now fifteen-year-old Inglis, her cousin Rafinha, and their new friend Leone have just enrolled in the Chiral Knights’ Academy. Their school days are off to a roaring start as the girls face golems in a high-gravity arena, where Inglis stuns the school and shows them that she’s no normal squire! Next up? Flygear piloting lessons with a special guest: an underwater magicite beast...

Reincarnated as a girl far in the future, former Hero-King Inglis, now fifteen years old, has the chance to hone her fighting skills. Her cousin Rafinha and their friend Leone set off on a special extracurricular assignment to serve as the knights’ reserve during a major trade deal. Aboard a massive Highlander airship, they meet the repulsive Ambassador Muenthe and his bodyguard from the Rambach Company. But wait… Doesn’t that guard look familiar? When magicite beasts burst onto the ship’s...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it ...

For anyone trying to understand the impossible strains placed on our medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is indispensable._____________________________'A furious dispatch from the front line of the hospital system.' THE TIMES, Book of the Week_____________________________Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. B...

Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the YearShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.On New Year’s Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing visitation, and a Russia...

In her most personal book to date, beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred.Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 1 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, s...

The final whip-cracking adventure in the P.K. Pinkerton series from bestselling Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence.When P.K's father, Robert Pinkerton, suddenly appears in Virginia City, P.K.'s life turns upside down. Suddenly she's having to learn how to be a 'girly-girl' in a cunning plot to outwit silver thieves. But it seems the thieves are one step ahead! Has P.K. finally met her match or can she use her detective skills to turn the situation on its head and imp...