Class Conflict

A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor...

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: Town & Country, Bustle, AARP...

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa. However, the imperial Radch see it...

In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.

Bloomsbury presents Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya, read by Sudha Bhuchar. "Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth." —Kamila Shamsie "Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change." —Megha Majumdar From the Man Asian...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls’s gripping coming-of-age novel about two sisters “transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where...

Attention is the real currency. Not time. Not talent. Not charisma. If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting knowing you were competent… and still didn’t move the room, you already know what this is about. If you’ve ever watched a conversation drift into fog, or felt yourself start performing, over-explaining, or rushing just to keep someone’s attention—same problem. You weren’t lacking personality. You were lacking structure. Attention Engineering: A Masterclass on The Crown Method is a practical course-in-a-book for people who want their communication to land—cleanly, ...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

#1 International bestselling author Ian Rankin returns with a razor-sharp, twisty standalone thriller—this one exposing the lives of the 1% in London’s most exclusive high rise Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every...

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

In the sun-drenched maritime quarter of Montredon, Marseille, Monsieur Coumbes lives a simple life. A humble porter by trade, he finds his greatest joys in his weathered cabin, his stubborn garden where the fierce mistral wind allows nothing to grow, and the ancient art of fishing for the rock fish that make the perfect bouillabaisse. But tranquility shatters when his wealthy neighbor Monsieur Riouffe builds a magnificent chalet nearby, awakening dangerous jealousies and long-buried secrets. Living under Coumbes' protection are Millette and her son Marius—a young man who has always ...

Winner of The British Book Awards Fiction Audiobook of the Year The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller A Selection of Dua Lipa's Service95 Bookclub 'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates' – The Observer From the Booker Prize-winning...

Bloomsbury presents Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya, read by Sudha Bhuchar. 'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDAR A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the...

In April 1892, the richest men in Wyoming hired fifty gunmen, drew up a list of names, and rode north to murder their neighbors. It was not a feud or a barroom shootout. It was an invasion. A private army — cattle barons, their hired hands, imported Texas gunfighters, a surgeon, and two newspapermen brought along to record the killing — boarded a special train out of Cheyenne with rifles, dynamite, and a death list. Their destination was Johnson County, a corner of their own state they did not control. Their purpose was to wipe out the small ranchers and homesteaders they had branded ...

Brought to you by Penguin. ***Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2025*** Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London. But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny...

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn...

It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionne's hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbour against neighbour, leaving everyone broke and exhausted. As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canada's...

Read by the author. The way we define success is breaking us. And we're being invited into a health modeled by Jesus. In Emotionally Healthy Success, Peter Scazzero launches a quiet revolution--calling leaders to reject the world's metrics of speed, growth, and applause for Jesus' slower, deeper...

She came to Florence with nothing but grief. She never expected to leave with everything. After losing her mother in a tragic accident, Isabella Moretti is sent to Italy to live with the father she barely knows—a chauffeur to one of the country’s most powerful families. Alone in a foreign world of wealth, beauty, and quiet expectations, she feels like she doesn’t belong. Until she meets him. Lorenzo Caravelli is heir to a vast Tuscan empire—and a legacy built on control, power, and cold ambition. Love has never had a place in his world… until a quiet, grieving girl with a ...

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) ‘They could be like telegrams, or the most...