Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders?From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter."Jared Diamond's erudite, eng...

The #1 bestseller‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ Heat‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. A page-turner, but don’t read it before bed if you’re easily spooked!’ SunYou think you know who to trust? You think you know the difference between good and evil? You’re wrong …The body of the head teacher of an exclusive ...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘Diamond is the master of gripping literature’ Evening Standard‘The Queen of Grip-lit is back… All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ Heat‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat’ SunCan you keep a secret? Your life depends on it…When Bridget Reid wakes up in a locked room, terrifying memories come flo...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?...

A blind date leads to a second chance at love…Years ago, when Ryan Stewart saw Shawna Ferguson, it was love at first sight. Unfortunately, he wasn’t a free man, and his deception caused him to lose her after a weekend that changed his life.When Shawna’s sister and brother-in-law set her up on a blind date, she has no idea it’s with Ryan, with whom she’d spent a weekend she wishes she could forget. She reluctantly agrees to finish the date with him, but doing so lea...

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular sc...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and S...

How do courts choose among competing readings of a text? This work draws on linguistics, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and literary criticism for insights into how texts impart meaning. Through vivid examples and in-depth case studies—of reported judicial decisions rather than stylized hypotheticals—it translates learnings into practical guidance.Many interpretive disputes arise from ordinary linguistic indeterminacy. Part I develops a taxonomy of linguistic features that c...

This book examines the changing demographics, attitudes and electoral behaviours of Londoners over the last 50 years and considers the impact these changes have had on the policy agendas of the capital, past, present and future.Focussing on the issues of greatest concern to voters in the capital, including crime, the economy and the cost of living, housing, inequality, health, immigration and the environment, the book examines the capital’s economic and cultural dominance and how i...

‘WOW!… Gripping… Keeps you guessing’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Kept me up all night!… This thriller hits all the marks!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Omg a great read, I was absolutely gripped from start to finish’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐One summer. One stranger. One killer…Two bad things happened that summer:A stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared.

From the bestselling author of The Beach Café and The Secrets of HappinessNumber 11, Princes Square, looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding staircase, and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city's history, but it's also a place of brand new beginnings.Georgie has followed her childhood sweetheart to Brighton but is determined to carve...

Another must-pack beach read from the bestselling author of The Beach Cafe"A great summer read from Lucy Diamond" HelloA seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. Beach fun, barbecues and warm summer evenings with a cocktail or two - who could ask for more?But this year everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pi...