Jack Sutherland has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. After a childhood spent in London, his family moved to California and by his twenties Jack was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars - most notably Michael Stipe, RuPaul and Mickey Rourke. His work took him around the world and led to bizarre encounters and requests, but also lured him into a smorgasbord of
A wide-ranging expose of global money laundering - and the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy - from one of Britain's leading investigative journalists
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Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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Simple Exercises for Building the Life You Want
An interactive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones, based on the 25-million copy #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits.
Full of David Wragg's unique blend of humour, heart, and high stakes, The Company of the Wolf is the epic next instalment in the Tales of the Plains trilogy.
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth
'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai Weiwei
A spectacular celebration of the first 50 years of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the award-winning visual effects house behind the Star Wars saga, Indiana Jones, E.T., Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park
Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation is the official decade-by-decade visual retrospective of the legendary visual effects house.
Founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas in 1975, IL
An award-winning political scientist shows how the fate of nations is determined by the decisions they make about who can own the land and how they are allowed to use it.
Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has chaos in the Middle East blown back over Turkey's borders? And why doesn't the West just cut Erdogan and his regime off? Hannah Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the Times correspondent for nearly a decade.
Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.
'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia's history.' THE WASHINGTON POST
This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline of Christ is a family of Japanese garlic farmers - well, that's on you.
Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Did life on Earth begin after a badly tidied-up picnic? Was it just an iceberg that s
In this shining, powerful polemic, Minna Salami opens up a new view of gender equality through two simple questions. What happens when we consider feminism through an African lens, and Africa through a feminist one?
Forensic psychiatrist Richard Taylor has worked on over a hundred murder cases in his twenty-six years in the field. In this gripping memoir, he explores why people kill, whether a single act can make someone a monster, and if any of us could become one. Drawing on chilling cases and his own family’s secrets, Taylor examines what drives the darkest human deeds - and why understanding them matters.