‘The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time. Doggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival – set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future. His father’s breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding – he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. ‘I’ll get out,’ he’d said. ‘I’ll come back for you, ok?’ The boy remembered that; had always remembered it. And, for a time, he’d believed it too.’
For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a book about leadership, judgement and decision-making - rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead the UK cricket team to international success.
From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT - the third instalment in James' no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life.
The last ten years have seen a huge shift in the way that football is played. But whilst every new generation of players improves upon the last, this change has happened away from the pitch, in rooms full of statistical analysts who pour over every pass, shot, and crunching tackle in an effort to fine tune the team’s performance.
The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize - a part-coming of age and part-mystery novel perfect for bookclubs and fans of Joanna Cannon's The Trouble With Goats and Sheep and Emma Healey's Elizabeth is Missing.
This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born. Meticulously researched and brilliantly original, Post Wall, Post Square provides an authoritative contemporary history of those crucial hinge years of 1989-1992 and their implications for our times. The world of Putin, Trump and Xi, with a fractious European Union, rogue states and the crisis of mass migration has its roots in the global exit from the Cold Wa
From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
By turns warm and witty, gripping and terrifying, heartbreaking and uplifting, Susie Steiner’s fourth book is both a literary masterpiece and one of the finest crime novels of recent years.