Three friends—Rach, Kel, and Shaz—come of age in a gritty Yorkshire town in the 1990s, sharing mischief, first loves, and risky choices. As they move toward different futures, a long-buried secret threatens the bond that has held them together. Told in a local Yorkshire voice, the novel follows their lives over years and across places, exploring friendship, loyalty, and the hard truths of growing up.

In her final year of university, a young woman drifts through lectures, art exhibitions and study groups while struggling to find her place and understand what it means to be a person. As she becomes drawn to a fellow student, Luke, she wonders whether connection will clarify reality or deepen her confusion. The novel follows her unraveling sense of self and engagement with the physical world, told in a wry, observant voice.

Vagabond is Tim Curry’s memoir, tracing his journey from childhood and early stage experiences to a long career across theatre, film, television and voice work. He offers candid, behind-the-scenes stories about creating memorable characters, moving between stage and screen, and the personal moments that shaped his life and craft—presented in an engaging, spoiler-free recollection.

A candid memoir that traces the singer’s journey from a modest upbringing in Alabama through early success with a breakthrough band to a chart‑topping solo career, blending behind‑the‑scenes anecdotes about songwriting and touring with frank reflections on relationships, family, loss, and the pressures of fame, ultimately revealing the personal resilience and creative drive behind a celebrated musical life.

Nicola Sturgeon traces her journey from a shy child in Ayrshire to Scotland’s first female and longest-serving First Minister, offering a personal, in-the-room account of her political life. She reflects on key events she experienced firsthand, including the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the SNP’s rise to government, the independence referendum, Brexit, and the Covid pandemic.

In this personal memoir, Jacinda Ardern recounts her path from a small New Zealand town to national leadership and describes how her values shaped a people‑centered, empathetic approach to governing. She reflects on leading through major national crises and on balancing public responsibilities with private life, offering practical insights into resilience, conviction, and compassionate leadership.

Sarah Perry chronicles the experience of caring for her father-in-law after a cancer diagnosis, nursing him at home with her husband and supporting him through the final stages of life. The book is an intimate, spare reflection on family, caregiving, and what it means to accompany someone as they near the end.

A wide-ranging cultural history that traces the symbolic, scientific and practical roles of blood across human societies, examining how it has figured in myth and ritual, medicine and politics, food and identity; the book mixes historical research, scientific explanation and vivid storytelling to show how attitudes toward blood reflect changing beliefs about the body, community and power.

A concise art-historical study of the Dutch painter that traces his life, the little we know of his biography, and the distinctive qualities of his work—meticulous composition, delicate handling of light and colour, and intimate domestic subjects—while examining techniques, contemporary context and the mysteries surrounding his small oeuvre and enduring influence on later perceptions of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

A concise biography that follows her journey from childhood in New Zealand to her expatriate life in Europe, exploring the personal relationships, artistic struggles and tuberculosis that shaped her brief but influential career; it situates her modernist innovations in the short story—impressionistic detail, psychological insight and subtle social critique—within the context of her friendships, love affairs and public reception, and offers an assessment of her literary legacy and continuing influence on 20th-century fiction.

A vivid biography that reveals how an internationally famous Black entertainer used her celebrity, charm, and international contacts as a cover for clandestine work during World War II, gathering intelligence, smuggling information and aiding the Allied cause; the narrative places her risky wartime activities alongside her stage career and later political commitments, drawing on archival research to reshape understanding of her life beyond the spotlight.

A concise biography that recovers the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who played a central but often overlooked role in the rise of psychedelic culture. Drawing on interviews, diaries and archival material, the book traces her work with Timothy Leary, her experiments with LSD, and the personal costs she endured while shaping the public story of the movement.

A concise, essayistic portrait that blends biography, close musical readings and cultural criticism to capture the eccentric life, aesthetic provocations and enduring influence of Erik Satie; it traces his sparse, repetitive piano pieces and performance pranks alongside anecdotes of Parisian bohemia, showing how irony, silence and formal minimalism anticipated later avant‑garde movements while complicating received narratives of genius. The prose is digressive and personal, moving between musical analysis, archival detail and reflections on taste, authorship and the making of artistic myth.

Millions of anonymous letters begin arriving worldwide, each opening with "We must confess," exposing dark secrets and triggering chaos after LLIAM, a supercomputer that governed major life decisions, abruptly goes offline. CEO Kaitlan Goss seeks Maud Brookes, an ex-nun who taught LLIAM about humanity, hoping she can help stop the unrest, but when Maud receives a letter implicating Kaitlan the two women are drawn into a dangerous struggle as society teeters on the brink.

Lorraine is drawn to Paddy Farrell, a charismatic operator who moves through the dangerous, destabilized world along the border — a place of roadblocks, hijackings and illicit cash. A backstreet bureau launders money for a ragged, unscrupulous crew and corrupt officials blur the lines between law and crime. As Lorraine becomes entangled with Paddy and his associates, she discovers how quickly ordinary choices can pull someone into violence and moral compromise.

A trenchant collection of essays that examines how architecture and urban design shape and reflect political power, arguing that buildings and planning are not neutral aesthetics but active sites of ideological struggle; it surveys modernist and post‑war projects, critiques the commodification and nostalgia that drive contemporary redevelopment and gentrification, and calls for a politically aware approach to the built environment that defends public space and social needs against market forces.

A wide-ranging history and argument that traces how societies have understood, defended and constrained free expression from premodern times to the digital age, showing that appeals to truth-seeking, individual autonomy, democratic self-government and protection from state power have coexisted with repeated efforts to limit speech for reasons of religion, order, reputation, racial violence and security. It examines how changing technologies and institutions—printing, colonial governance, mass media and the internet—reshaped who could speak and who was heard, critiques simplistic marketplace-of-ideas defenses, and carefully weighs harms like incitement, hate and misinformation. The result is a historically informed, pragmatic case for robust free speech protections coupled with accountable, narrowly targeted limits and civic remedies that recognize difficult trade-offs.

At the Inns of Court in early 17th-century London, Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde form a close friendship rooted in shared hopes to reconcile Crown and Parliament under Charles I. The book follows their ambitions and the political, religious, and personal tensions — plus chance events and judgments — that gradually push them onto opposing sides as the country heads toward civil war. It vividly recreates the period’s atmosphere and shows how national conflict reshaped intimate relationships.

Ash Sarkar argues that culture wars and moral panics about minorities are used to distract and divide the majority, allowing a small economic and media elite—hedge funds, landlords, corporations and powerful press owners—to consolidate power and wealth. The book explains how fear and misinformation obscure shared social and economic interests and outlines why recognizing these manipulations is a first step toward collective solutions.

This book traces the origins, arguments, and activism of the international campaign that demanded monetary recognition for unpaid domestic and care labor, situating the demand within Marxist and feminist critiques of capitalist reproduction; it chronicles grassroots organizing, key campaigns and slogans, internal debates about strategy and ideology, and the movement’s varied impacts across countries while assessing its legacy for later feminist, labor, and social policy struggles around care, wages, and the valuation of domestic work.