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The Little Book of Hygge : The Danish Way to Live Well
0159.00 DH**THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON, WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD**
Hygge has been described as everything from « cosines of the soul » to « the pursuit of everyday pleasures ». The Little Book of Hygge is the book we all need right now, and is guaranteed to bring warmth and comfort to you and your loved ones this winter.
Hooga? Hhyooguh? Heurgh? It is not really important how you choose to pronounce ‘hygge’. What is important is that you feel it. Whether you’re cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends, hygge is about creating an atmosphere where you can let your guard down.
The Little Book of Hygge is the definitive, must-read introduction to hygge, written by Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. The book is packed full of original research on hygge, along with beautiful photographs, recipes and ideas to help you add a sprinkle of Danish magic to your life.
From fans of The Little Book of Hygge:
‘It’s the cosiest book in the world!’
‘This book is made for lovers of creature comforts’
‘Perfect for reading on a stormy January night’
‘A lovely book to read during winter months, it helps you detach from the chaos of life’
‘If you want a book that takes you to a happy place every time, buy this one’ -
The First Crusade : The Call from the East
0150.00 DHFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS
‘Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale and ambition set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three years later, after a journey which saw acute hardship, the most severe dangers and thousands of casualties, the knights of the First Crusade found themselves storming the fortifications and capturing the Holy City. Against all the odds, the expedition had returned Jerusalem to Christian hands.
In ‘the most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation’ (Mark Whittow, TLS), Frankopan paints a strikingly original picture of this infamous confrontation between Christianity and Islam. Focusing on Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, a truly fresh interpretation of a very old story emerges that radically alters our understanding of the entire crusade movement.
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The Rosie Result
0129.00 DHCurl up with the big-hearted and hilarious final instalment in the Rosie Project series about overcoming life’s obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking
THE INTERNATIONAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
‘Incredibly funny, life-affirming and warm-hearted’ HEAT
‘A fast-paced enjoyable journey. Genuinely heartwarming’ INDEPENDENT
‘Hilarity is the order of the day in this joyful read’ PRIMA
‘A fun and satisfying read’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Laugh out loud’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
__________Can you fit in when you were born to stand out?
Don Tillman – scientist, husband, father, and world’s greatest problem-solver – is facing his toughest task yet.
He and his wife Rosie have been told their son, Hudson, needs an autism assessment.
Having faced a lifetime of not fitting in, Don fears for his son and decides only he can help.
But is the world’s greatest problem-solver really who his son needs?
After all, who has the problem here . . . Hudson or Don?
__________‘This funny novel tackles tough questions about family and love with a light touch and a big heart’ DAILY MAIL MUST READS
‘A smart mix of comedy, romance and profound outsider’s insights on our society’ THE TIMES
‘All three of the Rosie novels made me laugh out loud. Ultimately the story is about getting inside the mind and heart of someone a lot of people see as odd, and discovering that he isn’t really that different from anybody else’ BILL GATES
‘Uplifting’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘One of the most original and endearing characters in the literary world’ HERALD
Join the thousands of readers who have fallen in love with Don and Rosie . . .
‘Touching and funny. There was not a page I turned where I was not rooting for the characters or smiling’ 5* Reader Review
‘Warm, wonderful and laugh out loud funny. Stays with you long after you have finished’ 5* Reader Review
‘Wonderful, touching, funny, very romantic. Glorious’ 5* Reader Review
‘Funny, poignant and original. The best romantic comedy I’ve read since Bridget Jones’ 5* Reader Review
‘Utterly, utterly brilliant! Captured my heart’ 5* Reader Review
‘A truly wonderful, warm-hearted story. Read it, you won’t regret it!’ 5* Reader Review
‘If I could have given this book 6 stars, I would. Brilliant’ 5* Reader Review -
Recovery : Freedom From Our Addictions
0135.00 DHThe Number One Sunday Times Bestseller from Russell Brand.
‘This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don’t know that you have it.
What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn’t fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what?
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you, it’s that I am worse. I am an addict, addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love and fame.’
The program in Recovery has given Russell Brand freedom from all addictions and it will do the same for you.
This system offers nothing less than liberation from self-centredness, a new perspective, freedom from the illusion of suffering for anyone who is willing to take the necessary steps.
‘It feels wrong to say it is an addictive read, given the subject, but it really is. Russell doesn’t just want to save our souls he wants to entertain us on the way.’ – Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive
‘Recovery should be read by the world’ – Ruby Wax
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Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption
0119.00 DHNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON.
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR.
A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice.
The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go
to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too.Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman — a crime he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial
inequality, and legal brinkmanship — and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer’s coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has
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Never Eat Alone : And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
0130.00 DHThe bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for making connections in the digital world
‘Don’t walk . . . RUN to your closest bookstore. The most extraordinary and valuable book I’ve come across in a long, long time’ Tom Peters
Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to success?
Master networker Keith Ferrazzi says the secret is in reaching out to others. As he discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people is the way they use the power of relationships – so that everyone wins.
Never Eat Alone: Expanded and Updated lays out the steps and mindset Ferrazzi uses to connect with thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates: people he has helped and who have helped him. This form of connecting to the world is based on generosity; Ferrazzi distinguishes gen uine relationship-building from crude glad-handing.
These practical, proven principles include: don’t keep score (make sure other people get what they want, too); ‘ping’ constantly (reach out to your contacts all the time – not just when you need something); never eat alone (‘invisibility’ is a fate worse than failure); and become the ‘king of content’ (use social media to make meaningful connections).
In this classic, global bestseller you’ll discover the timeless strategies used by the world’s most connected people, from Bill Clinton to the Dalai Lama. And you’ll learn how to transform your own network, career and life.
‘A step-by-step way to build relationships with anyone. The tone is engaging and the advice practical’ New York Times
‘Cleverly mixes anecdotes with cogent advice and suggests concrete steps readers can take toward improvement’ USA Today
Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of the training and con sulting company Ferrazzi Greenlight and a contributor to Inc., the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Earlier in his career, he was the CMO of Deloitte Consulting and of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and the CEO of YaYa Media. He lives in Los Angeles.
Tahl Raz has written for Inc., the Jerusalem Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and GQ. Raz lives in New York City.
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Power Play : Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century
0199.00 DHInside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla’s bid to build the world’s greatest car and the race to drive the future.
Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he’s a genius and a visionary and to others he’s a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car.
When Tesla was founded in the 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition.
Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla’s worst enemy–his antics repeatedly taking the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three?
Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds… and changed the future.
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Joe Biden : American Dreamer
0300.00 DHThe new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos – A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year
‘A thoroughly readable primer’ Guardian
‘Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders’ Sunday Times
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest – fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered.
Yet even as Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship – an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.
Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden’s life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members.
In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy – a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.
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Midnight Sun
0199.00 DHIt’s here! Number one bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly-anticipated companion; the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire’s point of view.
When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.
This unforgettable tale as told through Edward’s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward’s past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?
In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love.
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Grown Ups
0140.00 DH*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***
Hilarious and painfully relatable, Grown Ups is the perfect escape into someone else’s wonderfully messy family . . .
‘Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!’ GRAHAM NORTON
‘SUCH a treat. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words’ CAITLIN MORAN
______MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL.
Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.
Three very different women tied to three very different men.
Every family occasion is a party – until the day the secrets spill out.
PLAYTIME IS OVER.
BUT WHERE ARE THE GROWN-UPS?
This book has been printed with four different colour designs: blue, green, pink and orange. Covers are assigned to orders at random so we are unable to accept specific requests.
______‘Comic, convincing and true. Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable – and get a few grownup laughs, too’ GUARDIAN
‘Hilarious, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking. I loved everything about it’ DAILY MAIL
‘You may have written the best book of your career’ CHRIS EVANS, VIRGIN RADIO
‘Superb. Warm-hearted, wise and highly entertaining’ OBSERVER
‘Keyes at her best: capturing everyday voices with humour and empathy with writing that you’ll devour in a weekend. Just pure and simple joy’ STYLIST
‘I loved every word. I will be missing those gorgeous vibrant characters for many weeks to come’ LIANE MORIARTY, bestselling author of Big Little Lies
‘Messy, tangled complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort our lives out at all’ JOJO MOYES, bestselling author of Me Before You
‘Her best yet. Charming, funny and poignant, but also profound, heartbreaking’ NINA STIBBE, bestselling author of Reasons to be Cheerful
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Fifty Shades Freed
0119.00 DHRomantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you for ever.
When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably.
Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. Ana must learn to share Grey’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity or independence; and Grey must overcome his compulsion to control and lay to rest the horrors that still haunt him.
Now, finally together, they have love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities.
But just when it seems that they really do have it all, tragedy and fate combine to make Ana’s worst nightmares come true …
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Inheritance : Book Four
0110.00 DHIt began with Eragon . . . It ends with Inheritance.
Not so very long ago, Eragon – Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider – was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.
Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chances.
The Rider and his dragon have come farther than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaesia? And if so, at what cost?
Featuring spectacular artwork by cult artist John Jude Palencar, this stunning book brings the bestselling Inheritance cycle to a breathtaking conclusion.
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Brisingr : Book Three
0110.00 DHFollowing the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors, Eragon and Saphira narrowly escaped with their lives. But more awaits the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by promises he may not be able to keep, including his oath to cousin Roran to help rescue his beloved Katrina. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes, Eragon must make choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.
Conflict, action, adventure and one devastating death await readers as Eragon battles on behalf of the Varden while Galbatorix ruthlessly attempts to crush and twist him to his own purposes. Can he become a leader who can unite the rebel forces and defeat the King?
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A Torch Against the Night
0129.00 DH‘Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy’ – Us Weekly
The sequel to the explosive New York Times bestselling debut An Ember in the Ashes, that’s captivated readers worldwide.
After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt Elias and Laia as they flee the city of Serra.
Laia and Elias are determined to break into the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison to save Laia’s brother, even if for Elias it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
They will have to fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene – Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.
Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own – one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape . . . and kill them both.
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Blood & Honey
0220.00 DHThe stakes are higher. The witches are deadlier. And the romance is red-hot. The eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times and Indiebound bestseller Serpent & Dove is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and is an instant New York Times bestseller!
Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church-fugitives with nowhere to hide.
To survive, they need allies. Strong ones. But as Lou becomes increasingly desperate to save those she loves, she turns to a darker side of magic that may cost Reid the one thing he can’t bear to lose. Bound to her always, his vows were clear: where Lou goes, he will go; and where she stays, he will stay.
Until death do they part.
Don’t miss Gods & Monsters, the spellbinding conclusion of this epic trilogy!
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King of Scars
0180.00 DHSee the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone — Season 2 premiering March 16, 2023! Discover what comes next for the daring rogue Nikolai in the start of this captivating new duology.
The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.
Face your demons . . . or feed them.
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war – and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried–and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.
