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A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines.Josephine del Rosario feels like a pariah in her town. Long ago orphaned after her father's political campaign ended in tragedy, she's all alone, taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where a revolution brews. And it's starting to feel like he's abandoning her.When she receives a letter from a cherished childhood friend, Hiraya, inviting her to play a game, she jumps at the reason for leaving town. Josephine will have whatever her heart desires if she wins. Maybe she can change her life. It doesn't matter that dark rumors have always surrounded Hiraya.Except Hiraya's house is strange-labyrinthine and huge, and something seems to be following Josephine everywhere she turns. What's worse is there's something her old friend isn't telling her.There is something insidious about this invitation, and if Josephine isn't careful, she'll find that change is sometimes bought with blood.

**PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY**For lovers of Moo Deng and Before the Coffee Gets ColdDiscover the enchanting new feelgood novel where five overlapping lives seek comfort from a magical hippo ride:Nestling at the bottom of a five-storey apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground, Hinode Park, where you will find a very special hippo ride. According to urban legend, if you touch it with the area of your body that needs comfort, you will see swift signs of recovery.Meet a couple of the neighbours who use the hippo ride, from a highschool student to an eighty-year-old cleaning lady:-Kanato lays his head on the hippo's back, hoping to recover the confidence he lost when he started at his scary new school;- Saha, a new mother with no friends, strokes its mouth, in case she can bring back the words she spoke when she was an award-winning retail assistant;Three more neighbours will come to the magical hippo for help, as they discover how to resolve emotional pain for themselves, if their heart is open and their minds are at peace, in this deeply moving celebration of kindness, community and understanding.Readers adore Recovery Hippo:'I wanted to find the magical hippo in myself as I read this book' *****'How does Aoyama depict human emotion so vividly? I imagined myself in this book' *****'I almost wept on my train home from work' *****'It gripped my heart. I wish there was a magical hippo near my home' *****'Whenever I feel hurt, I want to re-read this wonderful book' *****

In today's data-driven world, maths is a weapon wielded by banks, insurance companies, tech firms, and government agencies. These organizations use sophisticated algorithms to calculate odds, make predictions, uncover patterns, manage risk, and optimize actions. And they treat you as another number to crunch along the way.Robin Hood Maths explains the mathematical methods these companies and agencies use to manipulate and profit off of you. It's easy to assume these algorithms are too complex to even understand, let alone use for yourself. But maths professor Noah Giansiracusa makes the compelling case that anyone can use these same methods, without any special training or advanced knowledge. He offers simple hacks and streamlined formulas for beating the number crunchers at their own game.With Professor Giansiracusa as your guide, you'll learn how to use maths to rescue your credit score and make better investments, take control of your social media, and reclaim agency over the decisions you make every day. In a society designed to take from the poor and give to the rich, maths has the potential to be a powerful democratizing force. Robin Hood Maths gives you the tools you need to think for yourself, act in your own best interest, and thrive.

The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world - and keep the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the Society of Unknowable Objects, hears of a new artefact coming to light in Hong Kong, he sends the Society's newest member, author Magda Sparks, to investigate. Within hours of arriving in Hong Kong, Magda is facing death and danger, confronted by a professional killer who seems to know all about unknowable objects, specifically one that was stolen from him a decade before. Magda is forced to flee, using an artefact that not even the rest of the Society knows about. Returning to London, Magda learns hers is not the only secret being kept from the other two members. And that the most pernicious secret is about the nature of the Society's mission. Her discoveries will lead her on a perilous journey, across the Atlantic to the deep south of the United States - not in pursuit of an unknowable object, but an unknowable person: the killer she first faced in Hong Kong. In doing so, Magda begins to understand that there are even more in the world who are chasing these magical items, and that her own family's legacy is tied up in keeping all these secrets under wraps. Magic has always been too powerful to reveal to the world. But Magda will learn there might be something even more powerful: the truth. Praise for Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors:'Joyful, exuberant, and crackling with adventure. This book is as magical as those it celebrates.' STUART TURTON, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle'A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real - don't miss this fantastic thriller debut.' LEE CHILD'A real page-turner - incredibly ambitious and inventive, The Book of Doors is a great read.'ROSIE ANDREWS, author of The Leviathan

Navigate power dynamics, build effective relationships with higher-ups, and earn more authority, freedom and confidence at work. Do you feel vulnerable to the whims of your boss, peers or internal politics, pushing through each day with an undercurrent of anxiety? Maybe you're micromanaged, interrupted in meetings, saddled with busy work or overlooked for career opportunities. But what if you could subtly teach those above you to value your ideas and treat you with respect - without ever changing your job title?Human behavior professor and award-winning executive career coach Melody Wilding has helped thousands of clients advocate for their needs at work while navigating the minefield of office politics. In this clear, tactical guide, she shares time-tested strategies, detailed scripts, and transformative insights to help you operate from a position of power, even if you lack formal authority. No matter your level, reclaim control of your career by building the emotional intelligence, relational capital and negotiation savvy to succeed in a world of competing stakeholders.

When Nina was just five years old, her family's whole world was torn apart when her seventeen-year-old sister Tamara was found dead in the pool of their Cote d'Azur property. Nina's evidence led to the conviction of their housekeeper's daughter and occasional babysitter seventeen-year-old Josie for Tamara's murder. But when new evidence emerges to suggest that Josie was innocent, Nina is forced to question the accuracy of her memories, her role in one of the most notorious cases of the past twenty years, and what actually happened to her sister on that hot summer day.

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD'A Korean take on Misery' Time'A masterwork of suspense, and a profound meditation on grief, solitude, and secrecy' Laura van den Berg, author of Find MeIn this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralysed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child.Following months in hospital, Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.A bestseller in Korea, The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms.'Like Hitchcock or Abe, Pyun peers head on into the unnerving depths of human grief' Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000'While reading The Hole, you'll find yourself suddenly doubting everything' Kyung-sook Shin, New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mother

From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after six surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events - from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.

She didn't see it coming . . . But one of us did. THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYONE HERE IS LYING AND THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR. 'A modern master of the psychological thriller.' STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of Fifty Fifty and The Accomplice'The queen of page-turners' ANDREA MARA, bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing----Bryden and Sam have it all - thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden - working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife's car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It's as if she just walked out. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?With every minute that passes - and as questions swirl around their community - Bryden and Sam's past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbours and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . . ----'Keeps you guessing until the very last page.' PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train'Shari Lapena is the undisputed queen of dysfunctional families.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of The Last Party*** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW***Shari Lapena, No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024

From the wedding and the honeymoon to life afterwards, including how to deal with the in-laws and how to tell if you spouse is having an affair, this title dispenses anecdotes, jokes, common sense and optimism.

How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you've always rolled your eyes at: you'd do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.So when William Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn't mean to do it, William does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body.William thinks that's the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . .You'd do anything for your child - even cover up a murder.But would you do it twice?Praise for Sam Lloyd 'Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent.' - Daily Mail'Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time.' - Lesley Kara'An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller.' - Shari Lapena'Fiendishly clever' - Sunday Times

Rafa Fernandez was always crystal clear about one thing; hell would freeze over before he was dragged into the dirty business that made his father one of the richest and most powerful criminal bosses in the world. But now his father is dead, hell has indeed frozen over and, whether he likes it or not, his father's billions are his. Unfortunately, the old man's rivals have an eye not just on the drugs' business but the other assets too. Soon his family is under threat: his sister has been kidnapped, and his wife and son living in fear. If they, and he, are to survive, he must become the master of his father's world. Dr Laura Strong also has dark secrets - some crippling gambling debts accumulated trying to care for her disabled brother. When Rafa offers her the chance to transform her finances by caring for his own son, she has no choice but to say yes, particularly when agents from the National Crime Agency urge her to take the job - and inform on her new boss. As a reluctant drug dealer and a damaged doctor are pushed together by an increasingly brutal series of events, the question is simple; can either of them survive? And, if so, how?

'Ruth Jones writes with such warmth you can't help but fall in love with the characters she creates.' JAMES CORDENThe joyful and life-affirming new novel from the co-creator of Gavin and Stacey and the Richard and Judy Book Club author of Love Untold.Linda and Levi will never meet. But they're going to change each other's lives.In her role at the council's Unclaimed Heirs Unit, Linda Standish investigates the lives of those who've died alone and tracks down any living relatives. She's been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years. And now she's looking forward to an early retirement.But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda must take on one last case - that of Levi Norman Jones - a Welshman who'd made his home on a remote Scottish island for the past five years.What brought Levi here? And who did he leave behind? Obliged to travel (by hearse) with her arch nemesis Fergus Murray, and helped (and hindered) by the eccentric local residents, Linda searches for clues to a life now lost. And in the process unexpectedly makes new friends, and discovers things about herself she never knew.Bursting with all the heart and humour that has made Ruth's name as a screenwriter and author, The One You Never Knew is about finding joy in the most unlikely connections, and the importance of holding onto friendship, love and community - especially when life gets messy.Praise for Ruth Jones:'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do' JOJO MOYES'A cast of characters you'll lose your heart to.' ADELE PARKS'Beautifully warm and totally absorbing.' JANE FALLON

'Prime Minister Churchill, the Witches of Britain are at your service . . .'1940, and war rages across Europe. The future looks bleak. But now, emerging from the shadows, the Royal Academy of Witches offers its help. And so it is tasked with finding an ancient artefact that, were it to fall into Nazi hands, would help Hitler fulfil his twisted Aryan dream . . .Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be chosen to work under Isadora Goode, the Grand Mistress of the Royal Academy of Witches.Now, three years into her apprenticeship, and with Hitler's armies rampaging across Europe, the Witches of Britain have joined the war effort - but not without some resistance from within, the British government having originally forced the witches into hiding.As Lydia's power grows, she too joins the cause, tracking down magical relics in order to keep them out of Nazi hands. But a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences and suddenly Lydia's mission becomes even more urgent . . . Somewhere out there, hidden amidst the chaos of war, is the Grimorium Bellum - an ancient book that Hitler craves, a book so steeped in dark magic that it has the power to wipe out civilisations - an artefact that Lydia must find and secure at all costs.Dropped into the heart of Occupied France, Lydia finds allies in Rebecca Gagne, a French resistance fighter with a secret, and Henry Boudreaux, a Haitian-American art historian who seems to possess a little magic of his own. But tracking down this book is only half the battle - for the Grimorium Bellum seems to have a dark agenda all of its own . . .

I'd got a fair share of surprise and scepticism when I told people I was writing a book about the brain at rest. The idea seemed to defy gravity. It was too radical. Too impractical. Some would laugh it off as a luxury while others would nod along perfunctorily. But as I shared the profound scientific benefits of intentional rest, the resistance often gave way to curiosity, sometimes even relief. When was the last time you let yourself do nothing - not scrolling while eating a sandwich, but nothing at all?We are constantly told to make the most of our time. Stop procrastinating. Don't sleep more than 7.5 hours a night. Optimise. To be happy, creative and successful requires discipline and focus. The most important thing is to be efficient with every precious hour.But when we let our minds wander, something magical happens: blood flow to the brain increases by 90 per cent, and suddenly we are able to think in completely new ways.Dr Joseph Jebelli reveals how neuroscience is solving the mystery of the brain at rest, with profound implications for intelligence, creativity and even life expectancy. If we dare to break the taboo surrounding rest, we will find that long baths, walks in nature, meditation and simple daydreaming are the key to a happier, healthier - and ironically, more productive - life.

Bella Mackie meets Emily Henry in this sharp, voicey 'thromance' about a woman who is determined to make toxic people pay for the damage they do, and the stranger who is on her tail.The wellness retreat to die for - and maybe you will . . .No one in Lily Lennox's life can understand why each of the past five summers, she has shut her successful business and chosen instead to be paid minimum wage life-guarding at the exclusive Riovan Wellness Resort in a sun-soaked Caribbean island.Fortunately for her, they also aren't aware of the mysterious deaths that have occurred on the island every time she's there.Lily always tries to avoid attracting attention. After all, if your mission is murder, it's best not to draw suspicious eyes. But this year (very attractive) guest Daniel Black is asking a few too many inconvenient questions.Can she manage her growing attraction towards him at the same time as getting away with murder?

10 Years ago:It's a study abroad program like no other: a month-long trip exploring the best Australia has to offer. And at first, it's everything best friends Phoebe and Claire, and the rest of the student group, expect: sunshine, whirlwind romances, and all-night parties. But it isn't long before cracks begin to form within the group. Ones that lead to Phoebe's disappearance ...Now:It's the call Claire has been waiting for years for: Phoebe's remains have been found. It's time to return, for her and the others to go back to Australia. But as Claire retraces their steps and tries to piece together exactly what happened to her best friend all those years ago, it quickly becomes clear everyone in the group has secrets. Because someone knows what really happened that fateful day ten years ago.And they'll do anything to keep the others from learning the truth.

The addictive and thought-provoking new novel from the author of the Richard & Judy book club pick, THE HERD. Praise for Emily Edwards:'A knock-out twist' Gillian McAllister'Will have book clubs across the country in hot debate! Brilliant.' Clare Mackintosh***Available to pre-order now***In the sleepy seaside sleepy town of Waverly, Rosie and Seb Kent are happily married. Now that Seb has achieved his dream of becoming Headmaster of the local school, their lives couldn't be any better. Then Abi arrives. Abi, a young, single mother, has come to Waverly for a fresh start. She plans to reinvent herself and give her children a new life. Then she sees Seb. As their complicated hidden past threatens to destroy them both, they try their hardest to keep it contained. But in a small town, secrets don't stay hidden for long and soon, what should be their private business becomes a very public scandal. How far will everyone - them, their families and the whole community - go to protect everything they hold dearest?

Embrace the transformative power of variety and experience for a life of fulfilment. We've been told that a good life is a stable life, a comfortable or purposeful life that follows a well-trodden path. But is a happy life, with the complacency it fosters, or even a meaningful life, which comes with narrowness and misplaced loyalty, the only path to a good life?In Life in Three Dimensions, one of our foremost psychologists Shige Oishi proposes a third dimension to a good life: psychological richness, a concept that prioritizes curiosity, exploration and a variety of experiences that help us grow as people. Weaving his own story with original research from fields ranging from moral philosophy, literature, culture, neuroscience, personality and psychology, Oishi proves that psychological richness has benefits beyond happiness or meaning. Ultimately, we see how anyone can use the three dimensions - happiness, meaning and psychological richness - to build a fuller, more satisfying life with fewer regrets.