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Business & Economics

Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

The threat to liberal democracy isn’t just autocrats – it’s a lack of effective action by so-called progressives. We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It’s time for change. Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.

The Book of DO: A manual for living

Bobette Buster & Andrew Paynter

Can a book inspire action? Can it make us get up and move? Start something? Live differently? With wisdom and advice from leading experts including bestselling authors Libby DeLana, Robert Poynton, and Bobette Buster this beautifully-produced hardcover shows you how to live a more creative and sustainable life, work smarter, or even change direction. Within its pages you ll find over 50 photographs, 30 illustrations, 10 themed sections, 8 lists, 6 recipes, 4 diary entries and hundreds of ideas around business, creativity, resilience, and wellbeing that might just change your life. In the words of Dick Dastardly, Don t just stand there, do something!

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we’re either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we’re rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it’s called ‘slow productivity’. Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on three simple principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality. Examining the stories and habits of ancient and modern scientists, philosophers, artists and scholars who worked in this way, Newport reveals just how transformative the slow productivity approach can be to producing a meaningful body of work. From managing your energy according to the season, to identifying which projects to pursue and which to set aside, to building a schedule that yields maximum output with minimum stress, this timely and essential book will revolutionise how you work, helping you to accomplish great things at a more humane pace.

Children (8-9 years old)

Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business!

Jamie Smart

There’s a new mischief-maker in The Woods – Little Monkey! A smaller, cuter, and even stranger Monkey than our beloved chaos-causer. But as Bunny and friends try to work out his motives, they are led far from the woods… into outer space. And on Planet Monkey, the laughs are positively intergalactic!

Diary of a Future Billionaire

Pamela Butchart

The start of a hilarious new middle-grade series from beloved award-winning, bestselling author Pamela Butchart. Just how far will one boy go to become a fully-fledged billionaire? “So here’s the thing about me. I’m a billionaire. An actual REAL-LIFE billionaire! And you know how some people who get rich say stuff like, “I can’t believe it!” and “I never thought it would happen to me!” Well … I CAN believe it. And I KNEW it would happen to me. Because I PLANNED IT. I PLANNED to become the world’s RICHEST ten-year-old. And you know what? It WORKED.” This is voice-led fiction at its finest told in engaging diary format.

Children (9-15 years old)

Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King

Katherine Rundell

When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live.

The Court of the Dead (The Nico Di Angelo Adventures)

Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

From #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a new adventure featuring two of the most popular characters from the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It’s been three months since demigod boyfriends Nico di Angelo and Will Solace returned from Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a single quest for them in all that time. So, when Nico’s half sister Hazel asks them to come to Camp Jupiter to help with an ‘issue’, Nico shadow-jumps at the chance to do something.

Crafts

The Art of Repair

Molly Martin

For Molly Martin, it all started with a pair of socks. Her favourite pair. When the heels became threadbare, her mother got out her darning mushroom and showed her how to reinforce the thinning stitches and bring them back to life.

Craftland

James Fox

The perfect seasonal gift for fans of history, heritage and the arts. Britain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our identities, built our communities and defined our regions. Craftland chronicles the vanishing skills and traditions that used to govern every aspect of life on these shores.

Winter Celebrations

Arounna Khounnoraj

Winter Celebrations is a celebration of the festive season through craft, featuring a beautiful collections of over 30 decorations and gifts that draw upon Arounna Khounnoraj’s natural aesthetic. From Christmas decorations, advent calendars to handmade tablescapes for family gatherings – get ready to hunker down and make yourself a handmade Christmas. In this ultimate maker’s guide to the festive season, Arounna will cover a variety of different crafts from embroidery, block printing, sewing and pottery, through the projects learn how to make your own wrapping paper, paper garlands and more.

Crime Fiction

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover with special finishes. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath…

Marble Hall Murders

Anthony Horowitz

Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third. The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again. As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself. It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.

History

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan (Hardback)

Molly Martin

In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected Afghanistan’s hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the world. Lyse Doucet first checked into the Inter-Continental on Christmas Eve 1988. In the decades since, she has witnessed a Soviet evacuation, a devastating civil war, the US invasion, and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban, all from within its increasingly battered walls. The Inter-Con has never closed its doors. Now, she weaves together the experiences of the Afghans who have kept the hotel running to craft a richly immersive history of their country.

Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Commanders (Hardback)

James Holland & Al Murray

From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory ’45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory. Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before.

The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty (Hardback)

Tracy Borman

In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen’s ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor – something she has stubbornly resisted throughout her reign. Almost with her last breath she whispers that James VI of Scotland should succeed her. Or so we’ve been led to believe. But, as enthralling new research shows, this is not what happened. Elizabeth went to her grave without formally naming an heir.

Literature

Letters from Father Christmas

J. R. R. Tolkien

A new edition of Tolkien’s famous illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to his children is presented in a stunning hardback format, complete with full colour illustrations. This classic festive book of Tolkien’s amazing Father Christmas letters written to his children between the 1920s and the 1940s has been reworked into a new hardback edition to match other beloved Tolkien titles. It contains high-quality digital reproductions of his beautiful letters and pictures.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas

A new selection of Dylan Thomas’s greatest stories taking us through the landmarks of the year, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition. For a boy growing up in an ordinary town in Wales, summer is ‘always radiant, rainless, lazily rowdy and skyblue’, and it always snows at Christmas. Weaving through the course of a year, this selection of Dylan Thomas’s most evocative and bittersweet stories depicts silent winter mornings by the sea, glorious holidays in the countryside and lovelorn nights in the pub. It ends with ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’, perhaps the most beautiful story of the festive season ever written.

Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Jeanette Winterson

The perfect festive treat: a beautifully illustrated book of Christmas stories and recipes from the Booker prize long-listed author. Everybody loves a Christmas story. The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of celebration, sharing and giving.

Media & Performing Arts

A Mind of My Own

Kathy Burke

Kathy Burke is one of Britain’s most distinctive voices. Even as a fearless kid in Islington, she did things her own way; roaming the estate that raised her to find her own path. A place at the Anna Scher Theatre in her teens changed the course of her life, and she found unimaginable success as an actress and writer – and national fame. But the rare gift that has always set her apart, beyond the stage or screen, is her ability to see the truth and tell it like it is. This spellbinding memoir is not just Kathy’s story, but the story of her class, her gender and her time.

We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Academy Award-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theatre career, difficult childhood and path to sobriety in his honest, moving and long-awaited memoir. Born and raised in Port Talbot – a small Welsh steelworks town – amid war and depression, Sir Anthony Hopkins grew up around men who were tough, to say the least, and eschewed all forms of emotional vulnerability in favor of alcoholism and brutality. A struggling student in school, he was deemed by his peers, his parents and other adults as a failure with no future ahead of him.

Duet: An Artful History of Music

Dr. Eleanor Chan

An ancient shaman raises a conch shell to her lips in a painted cave. A scholar in a Shaolin monastery bends over a manuscript and invents a musical scale. A 21st-century pop star takes her seat at a candyfloss-pink piano. Music is interwoven into the fabric of our lives. We listen to it. Some of us play it. And from the earliest traces of human existence, we have attempted to capture it – through the instruments we decorate, the spaces we perform in, and in kaleidoscopic paintings, medieval illuminated manuscripts and haute couture. In this startlingly original and beautifully illustrated history of music, classically trained musician, art historian and BBC Next Generation Thinker Dr Eleanor Chan takes us on an unforgettable journey through sound and vision that will forever change the way we see music.

Medicine

The Nervous System Reset: Overcome Pain, Trauma and Stress Using Your Vagus Nerve

Jessica Maguire

Physiotherapist and neurophysiology expert, Jessica Maguire wants to help you understand the root cause of many of our health issues – our dysregulated nervous system. In The Nervous System Reset, Maguire explains why your vagus nerve is key to emotional, digestive and physical health, and how to engage it to help reset your nervous system.

Natural History & Countryside

Creatures of Darkness: 100 of the Planet’s Weird and Wonderful Animals That Come out at Night

Dani Robertson

Creatures of Darkness takes readers on an extraordinary global journey, revealing the hidden world of 100 nocturnal species that thrive when the lights go out. From the deepest, densest rainforests and jungles to the wide-open savannahs and deserts, and even rural countryside, this stunningly illustrated book showcases the incredible adaptability of these incredible animals. Plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean and discover how life flourishes in the very darkness humans often overlook.

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain’s pioneering women gardeners

Fiona Davison

The paperback edition of the bestselling, acclaimed book. While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female. Appalled, and intrigued to find out what became of Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers whose struggles changed forever the rights and opportunities for women gardeners.

The Light Eaters: How the New Science of Plant Intelligence Expands Our View of Life on Earth

Zoe Schlanger

Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing – us included. The Light Eaters will completely redefine how you think about plants. Packed with the most amazing stories of the life of plants it will open your eyes to the extraordinary green life forms we share the planet with.

The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues and Signs

Tristan Gooley

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. Autumn is a time for reading leaves, deciphering scents and investigating fungi.

Bedside Companion for Gardeners: An anthology of garden writing for every night of the year

Jane McMorland Hunter

An eclectic collection of prose, poetry and practical advice for every day of the year. A mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of green-fingered inspiration where practical advice blends seamlessly with poetry and prose from intrepid gardeners past and present. Dip in and out of this collection with an entry for every night of the year that draws on writing through the ages and from across the globe.

Poetry

Winter Trees

Sylvia Plath

The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath’s life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery and dramatic play for which she became known. Published posthumously in 1971, this valuable collection finds its place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.

Sincerity

Carol Ann Duffy

Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book of the year.

Three Wise Men

Carol Ann Duffy

Seeking refuge from a snowstorm, a nameless traveller is welcomed into an ancient hall to warm their bones and fill their stomach, if they will hear the stories of three wise men and judge whom amongst them tells the truth. What follows are three tales of despair and devotion, of indigence and immortality. A lovelorn youth plies the object of his affections with golden rings, partridges and pear trees.

Pre-School

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Eric Carle

A much-loved classic, illustrated by the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Vibrant artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the next and young children will delight in Eric’s colourful collage animals and simple repetitive language.

The Night Creatures: Firefly

Robert MacFarlane

Enchanting to read aloud and exquisite to hold in the hand, each scene is rendered in spellbinding detail, showing the power of hope in a world steeped in darkness. The first in an upcoming trilogy, Firefly is sure to appeal to all ages. An uplifting and lyrical story of light, hope and wonder. With words from beloved and bestselling author, Robert Macfarlane, creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells-Stunning artwork created from original etchings by Luke Adam Hawker, whose debut book Together was a Sunday Times bestseller. Spectacular gift book, cloth bound with a copper foiled cover. This accessible story is perfect for children, and adults, ages 4 and above.

Psychology

Your Journey, Your Way: How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You

Horatio Clare

The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-changing book reveals what really works, and how it can help you.

Science

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

Hannah Fry & Dr Thomas Oleron Evans

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? Can you predict His Majesty’s Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner – shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night – or fatter – as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of sherry in billions of houses across the world? Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, beautiful equations, Markov chains and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with stockingfuls of mathematical marvels. And proves once and for all that maths isn’t just for old men with white hair and beards who associate with elves. Maths has never been merrier.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition

Carlo Rovelli

The anniversary edition of the international phenomenon. These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this enchanting overview of modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein’s theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman’s celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.

The Stargazers’ Almanac: An Illustrated Month-at-a-Glance Guide to the Night Sky: 2026

Callum Potter

Look up! You don’t need a telescope to go stargazing… Navigate the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets, now with a new and improved design for 2026! This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way, spot the constellations of the zodiac, watch meteor showers or see a swarm of a thousand stars. The Stargazers’ Almanac 2026 is a beautiful month-by-month guide to the night skies.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Among the Burning Flowers

Samantha Shannon

With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree. Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze.

Wind and Truth

Brandon Sanderson

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare-and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.

Alchemised

SenLinYu

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner – of war and of her own fractured mind. The Resistance is crushed, her allies dead, her abilities suppressed. The world she knew is gone. Paladia’s corrupt guild families and their necromancer overlords, aided by vile undead creatures now rule – and hold Helena captive. Resistance records claim she was a healer of little importance. Yet, Helena’s inexplicable memory loss makes her enemies wonder: Is she truly insignificant, or do her missing memories conceal the Resistance’s final secret?To uncover the truth, Helena is delivered into the hands of the High Reeve – Paladia’s most feared and merciless necromancer.

Sociology

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Priya Parker

Being deprived of social gatherings revealed just how important they are; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experiences. If there’s one thing lockdown showed us, it’s that time together is a gift we’ve too often taken for granted. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker shows us how to ensure that however we meet, it’s a truly transformative experience.

Theology & Philosophy

Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening

Henry Shukman

The essential meditation guide for the twenty-first century: renowned mindfulness teacher Henry Shukman replaces the concept of original sin with original love, teaching us to tap into the love that shapes our world and can transform who we are. An increasing number of people today feel disconnected, disengaged, and lonely.

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman

How can we find joy and meaning? Conquer grief? Manage anger? Measure true success? The answers to all these questions and more can be found in Stoic philosophy. Drawing on the wisdom of the Classic sages, The Daily Stoic is a page-a-day guide to help you tackle any problem, approach any goal and find the serenity, self-knowledge and resilience you need to live well. Powerful quotations, historical anecdotes and thought-provoking commentary meditating on the insights of philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus illuminate how we can do better – every day.

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

A brilliant exploration of freedom – what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival from the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: we think we’re free if we can do and say as we please. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from, as freedom to – the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together.

Welsh Interest

Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd

J.K. Rowling & Emily Huws

“Broliai Mr a Mrs Dursley, rhif pedwar Privet Drive”. The first words of J.K. Rowling’s timeless classic are familiar to readers the world over as ‘Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive …’ Learners and lovers of the Welsh language will delight in Emily Huws’s sparkling Welsh language translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which perfectly captures the wit and invention of the original, now reissued with stunning new cover art from Jonny Duddle.

Chwedlau Cymru a’i straeon hud a lledrith

Claire Fayers

This book includes fairy tales, classical myths and legends from Wales’s rich heritage – tales of magical Welsh dragons, the story of how the village of Beddgelert got its name, how the Welsh flag came to have a red dragon on it and other magical myths and legends. This book is full of timeless stories, for readers young and old to enjoy. Adapted and translated by Siân Lewis. An English version of this book is also available by the same author – ‘Welsh Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends’.

Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners (Teach Yourself)

Olly Richards

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Welsh. Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly – enjoyment! Mapped to A1-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading.

Young Adults

The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Vol. III)

Philip Pullman

The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra. In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer.

Powerless

Lauren Roberts

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya. The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya’s princes, Kai Azer, she’s thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition to showcase her ‘Elite’ powers.  If the Trials and the opponents don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn really is .

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