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The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals.

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China...

Children are full of curiosity and questions about the world. Each Friday, join Molly Oldfield, write of the weekly kids quiz in the Guardian each Saturday, the original QI elf and author and host of Everything Under The Sun (both the book and podcast) as she answers questions sent in by children around the world with the help of experts including Neil Gaiman, Heston Blumenthal, Grayson Perry, Lauren Child, Richard Branson and Sophie Dahl to the fish curators at the Natural History Museum. If you're a kid - big or small - with questions you want answered or if you want to learn interesting ...

Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist, and never escaped Ohio’s conservative grid of close-cut grass.

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of 16, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An empowering plan for living more by owning less, with practical suggestions and encouragement to personalize your own minimalist style—from the New York Times bestselling author of Uncluttered Faith “If you’re struggling with too much stuff and too little...

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR MIND TO SEE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE OTHERS SEE PROBLEMS How To Think Clearly Under Pressure, Turn Setbacks Into Advantage, And Spot Opportunities In Any Situation When pressure hits, most people stop thinking clearly. They overthink, react emotionally, and miss the opportunity hiding right in front of them. By the time clarity returns, the moment that could have changed everything is already gone. This is the silent reason smart, capable people feel stuck. Most mindset books teach you how to think better when life is calm, predictable, and under control. They focus on ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic. “Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an...

Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California, where her children are born.

April 26 isn’t just a date. It’s history ripping the cover off. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of catastrophe, exposure, violence, courage, reckoning, memory, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 26 alone: Chernobyl exploded and the world learned too late, John Wilkes Booth was cornered in a burning barn, Guernica was bombed in a rehearsal for modern terror, and Sybil Ludington rode through the night to raise the alarm. Part of the On This Day… series, April 26 delivers history by date with humor, energy, and zero lecture vibes. Every book in the ...

What does it mean to live under the boot of an occupying army? Not as a soldier, not as a politician, but as a mother, a student, a shopkeeper, or a child—trying to survive while your world is dismantled around you. In Occupied: The Horrors Of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule, historian Cyril Marlen offers an unflinching and deeply human account of what it was like for ordinary people trapped beneath the Nazi regime during World War II.

When Ava spills coffee on Liam during a chaotic morning in a crowded café, their lives take an unexpected turn. What begins as an awkward encounter blossoms into a deep and meaningful connection, as they find solace in each other’s vulnerabilities. Ava, grappling with the shadow of her successful sister and her own insecurities, begins to see herself through Liam’s unwavering support. Liam, burdened by the weight of his past mistakes and the relentless demands of his career, finds in Ava a sense of peace and understanding he never knew he needed.

April 25 isn’t just a date. It’s history twisting into shape. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of war, revolution, discovery, identity, diplomacy, sacrifice, reinvention, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 25 alone: the Gallipoli landings began at Anzac Cove, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution bloomed out of a radio signal and a dictatorship’s collapse, Watson and Crick published the double-helix structure of DNA, and the United Nations first gathered in San Francisco to imagine a world less addicted to catastrophe. Part of the On This Day… series, ...

When life feels like an endless stream of choices, it’s easy to rush, freeze, or second-guess yourself into exhaustion. When Everything Is a Decision is a practical, clear-headed guide to choosing well when time is tight, information is noisy, and outcomes can’t be guaranteed. You’ll learn how to spot your personal decision traps, separate what truly matters from what’s merely loud, and regain control of your attention and priorities. With simple frameworks and real-world examples, the book helps you make decisions you can stand behind—without needing perfect certainty or perfect ...

April 24 isn’t just a date. It’s history going all in. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of rebellion, disaster, invention, courage, miscalculation, cosmic ambition, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 24 alone: the Easter Rising began in Dublin, the Hubble Space Telescope launched toward glory after early humiliation, the failed Iran hostage rescue mission ended in desert catastrophe, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died when Soyuz 1 fell back to Earth, and the Rana Plaza collapse exposed the human cost of global fashion. Part of the On This Day… series, ...

April 21 isn’t just a date. It’s history kicking in the door. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of empire, war, invention, reinvention, myth, music, nation-building, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 21 alone: Rome was founded in legend, Manfred von Richthofen — the Red Baron — flew his last flight, Brasília was inaugurated out of modernist ambition and raw concrete, Prince died and the whole world seemed to go suddenly quieter, and the Loch Ness “surgeon’s photograph” hoax began its long hold on human gullibility. Part of the On This Day… ...

April 22 isn’t just a date. It’s history planting a flag and arguing about who gets to keep it. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of empire, philosophy, revolution, science, land grabs, memory, environmental hope, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 22 alone: Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil, the Oklahoma Land Run unleashed a mad scramble for territory, Earth Day began, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vladimir Lenin, and Immanuel Kant were all born, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors. Part of the On This Day… series, April 22 ...

April 23 isn’t just a date. It’s history asking what survives. One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of legacy, literature, ceremony, invention, cultural chaos, beer, ambition, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 23 alone: William Shakespeare was traditionally born and died, the German Beer Purity Law set the rules for a clean pint, the Order of the Garter was founded, Theodore Roosevelt delivered “The Man in the Arena,” the first YouTube video was uploaded, and New Coke detonated one of the strangest consumer meltdowns in American history. Part of the On...

Set during the 1920s, Elvira De Poulain, a Spanish painter based in Paris, receives news that her estranged husband, now running the family textile business in China, has died in his house in Shanghai under strange circumstances and that she must make appropriate funeral arrangements.