John Murray

Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hitman in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first.

The second novel from the award-winning author of international bestseller WAKE, picked as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2022.

Superbly written, taut and compassionate, Wake looks at what can happen when people's private tragedies become public property, and the ripples of trauma that follow violent crimes. Wake won the CWA Debut Dagger in 2019.

From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, the American prophets of capitalism to the aspirational ubermensch of European fascism, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers, uncovering both self-making's liberatory power, and the dangers this idea can unleash.

Published alongside a landmark 5-part BBC1 TV series featuring Prince William, Sir David Attenborough and many of the Prize Council members. We have ten years to change the fate of our planet's future - this is how. With an introduction from HRH Prince William and contributions from David Attenborough, Shakira, Christiana Figueres and more.

Featuring the moving first-hand testimony from surviving pupils, and drawn from letters, diaries and present-day interviews, The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child's-eye perspective on Kindertransport and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman's refusal to allow her beliefs in a better world to be overtaken by hatred and violence.

A BBC "BOOKS OF 2022" PICK Ben turns and grins ironically. 'When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren't measuring it. You weren't thinking about classical proportion. You were feeling something.'

Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost.