Hodder & Stoughton

My account of life in the death zone, and how my time in the Gurkhas and Special Boat Service prepared me for a record-breaking conquest of all 14 of the world's 8,000m peaks in under 7 months.

A witty, incisive and devastating look at a female friendship following two women from their teenage years to their thirties

A 40,000-year global journey through the history of time from an extraordinary watchmaker and historian

An ambitious but accessible book exploring how seven simple engineering inventions from the pump to the spring have shaped our world, by the engineer who designed the Shard.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 100+ dinner recipes under 500 calories Dinner Time is the latest cookbook from the outrageously funny James & Paul, otherwise known as the twochubbycubs, here to arm you with meals that will fill you up throughout the week and keep those tastebuds happy, all while keeping you on track with your healthy eating. These are recipes for everyone: perfect plate

'Wonderfully funny, utterly charming and sharp as all Hell' SARAH MILLICAN 'Tom Allen is one of the funniest comedians in the UK, the best dressed man I know and now it turns out he is a superb writer. I hate him' JOSH WIDDICOMBE 'A delightful, touching side-splitter' JO BRAND 'An absolute joy! Funny, witty and totally charming' ALAN CARR ~~~~~ 'When I was 16 I dressed in Victorian clo

In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home. Journeys to Impossible Places continues the story Simon started in his phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Step by Step, which traced the first decades of his life from depressed and unemployed teenager t

*Overcome any obstacle that life throws at you by cultivating an unbreakable mindset and learning to think like a Royal Marines Commando* What readers are saying about Becoming the 0.1%: 'A really interesting insight into the process of forging a Royal Marine Commando and becoming one of a very select group of elite performers' ????? 'Painfully truthful and honest, becoming the 0.1% is one o

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK PROFILED IN THE NEW YORKER, A TELEGRAPH AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Riveting' - Telegraph 'Enthralling' - Observer 'Gripping' - Sunday Times 'An antidote to despair' - Daily Mirror When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring. Lucy is a world-leading authorit

'I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.' 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. So when a bullet hits the glass inches from his face, he knows who fired it - doesn't he? But the sniper isn't the hardened killer he was expecting. It's Mireille

What readers are loving about X Marks the Spot: 'Reads like an Indiana jones novel, full of adventure and discovery' ????? 'A cracking good read' ????? 'Fascinating' GREG JENNER 'I couldn't put it down' JANINA RAMIREZ 'Alive with the spirit of adventure' RANULPH FIENNES 'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW Ancient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses pr

A thrilling journey to the planet's most extreme places with volcanologist and filmmaker Professor Clive Oppenheimer, revealing how volcanoes have shaped us and our planet.

'The Sherlock Holmes of Nature' - BBC Radio When we know what to look for and what it means, seasonal moments that were once hidden shine brightly. In The Hidden Seasons, Tristan Gooley shows us how to read the clues that the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather give us - but that we continually miss, because we don't know how and where to look. Spring is the time of wi

Step into the ancient fir-tree forests of Scandinavia and bear witness to legends as epic as those of the Greeks and the Romans.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.

Get swept away by the dual-POV sequel to the instant Sunday Times bestseller Spice Road, a romantic, action-packed fantasy set in an Arabian-inspired land.

For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black, The Forest King's Daughter is an enemies-to-forbidden-lovers romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Frostblood.

She needs a lawyer. He needs a payday. Simon Latch is a small-town lawyer struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it. She could be the ticket to his fortune. Once

Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood

In this extraordinary standalone from the author of The City of Stardust, a disgraced bookseller is offered the chance to restore a magical bookshop to its former glory, and enters a dark underworld of unscrupulous collectors, deadly ink magic and shady societies.