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War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivalled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.

<b>THE INSTANT NO. 1 <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br/><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br/><br/><b>'<i>Want </i>makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' <i>Guardian</i></b><br/><b>'I just loved reading it. It's exceptional' Fearne Cotton, <i>Happy Place</i></b><br/><b>'An empowering project' <i>Stylist</i></b><br/><b>'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' <i>Cosmopolitan</i></b><br/><br/><i>What do you want when no one is watching?<br/>What do you want, when the lights are off?<br/>What do you want, when you are anonymous?</i><br/><br/>When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.<br/><br/>In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous submission). They are all extraordinary: full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these fantasies provide a window into the most secret part of our minds.<br/><br/><b><i>Want </i>reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.</b>

This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda.<br/><br/>Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attache living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.<br/><br/>Members of the Office of Strategic Services, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in Europe, across enemy lines in occupied China and in Washington D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane and Marlene forged letters and 'official' military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs and even developed rumours for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now.

<b>'Wise, thoughtful and provocative ... An important book for our times' - Roisin Ingle</b><br/><br/><b>'Laura is an acute, intelligent and accurate observer and this book successfully combines psychology, philosophy and modern thinking in a fresh and vibrant way'</b> <b>- Brian O'Connell, journalist</b><br/><br/>"I have worn a lot of labels, by choice and otherwise. Here, I consider the ones I've picked up, rejected, lost, had stuck to my back like a 'kick me' poster in the schoolyard at lunch time, worn for a while and lost connection to. In its way, each one makes a discrete claim on who I am, as the labels you bear do for you. Each one is a means of translating who we are to the world and, when seen as the most important or truest element of who we are, shrinking and flattening us. Each one is part of our story, nothing more."<br/>A thought-provoking exploration of identity, <i>Some of Our Parts</i> casts a philosophical eye over the labels that shape our lives, considering how they can both help us to communicate our values and how they have the potential to trap us.<br/>A memoir explored through a life in labels inherited, accrued and cast off, <i>Some of Our Parts</i> considers the power in reclaiming our own story and challenges readers to question how we define ourselves in a world that is so ready to decide for us.

<strong>WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman's heroism' Philippa Gregory </strong> <br/><br/> <strong>Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful look at the courage of resistance.</strong> <br/><br/>When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and parenting her son. Then she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a children's book author. <br/><br/>Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the war. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. And she slowly turned back into a storyteller, writing what would become this book. <br/><br/>On the evening of June 27th, 2023, Amelina and three international writers stopped for dinner in the embattled Donetsk region. Whena Russian cruise missile hit the restaurant, Amelina suffered grievous head injuries, and lost consciousness. She died on July 1st. She was thirty-seven. She left behind an incredible account of the ravages of war and the cost of resistance. Honest, intimate, and wry, this book will be celebrated as a classic.

<strong>'A small masterpiece, written with heart, self-belief and wisdom. Wonderful!' </strong>PAUL THEROUX <br/><br/> <strong>2020: while the world is grounded, Bird arrives in the life of writer, Candida Meyrick, living with her young family on Anglesey.</strong> <br/><br/>The twelve-week-old Harris Hawk, Sophia Houdini Whitewing - aka Bird - is trained over the following months by the author and her children to be most herself: a skilled hunter and dazzling aerial gymnast, whose flights enrapture the family and set the author on a deepening love affair with life on the wing. <br/><br/>Working with her Harris Hawk over the following years reveals a new world: confronting mortality daily, moving through a liminal landscape, part sky-, part earth-bound. And every day's hunting brings a new life-lesson. Bird opens up a way of being that is everything the author most longs to be: courageous, compassionate, independent, full of joy - free as a bird. <br/><br/>Through daily adventures across field and woodland, through bog and briar, the author comes to realise that Bird is showing her the way, guiding her soul, revealing truths about her life that would otherwise have remained hidden. <br/><br/><em>Be More Bird</em> charts this deepening relationship between bird and woman, set in one of Britain's wildest landscapes. It reveals the subtle dynamic possible between human and avian - the species most closely related to the dinosaurs - and in poetic prose illuminates the ancient, worldwide art of falconry and its urgent relevance for the modern mind: the importance of untethering our souls and belief-systems and re-establishing a connection with the wilder world. <br/><br/>Structured around a series of 'life lessons', this astonishing and mesmerising book, executed in lyrical and emotionally charged prose, will transport readers into the wildness hidden within themselves as it encourages us to think profoundly about our connections with nature and our lives. <br/><br/>Joy in adversity, the freedom of travelling light, the power of strength and patience, the certainty of change and importance of letting go - all this and more Bird has taught the author. By embodying the age-old rites of the hunt and the supreme skill and subtlety of the hunter, Bird suggests a way to honour and more deeply inhabit the lives we have been granted. <br/><br/><em>Be More Bird</em> is a true story, still unfolding, of a wild predator who by choice flies in partnership with a woman as her earth-bound helper. Bird crosses boundaries: between species, cultures, sky and earth. In this way, <em>Be More Bird</em> is a fable for our times. <br/><br/>Dare to be more. Be more Bird.

This is likely to be the most brutally honest book about AI you'll ever read. It offers little comfort and no easy answers. The true existential threat isn't AI, but ourselves. For half a century, humanity has been exhausting the planet's health. Our self-destructive nature is amplified by our technological tools, making AI our ultimate test.<br/><br/>In the short term, AI will increase productivity. After that, jobs will start disappearing at an exponential rate, especially when AI takes robotic form and reprograms itself. As humans lose economic value, some may use their AI for fraud and hacker attacks. A single person could even task their AI to design a pandemic or a self-learning computer virus. This is a risk explosion with no clear off switch. The systems are already running, and the pressure to move quickly is overwhelming. There is no brake to hit.<br/><br/>This book is a sobering, solution-oriented guide to understanding the coming wave and to save humanity from ourselves. Instead of easy answers, it provides a framework of 22 problems and 16 actions to help you understand what's happening. It won't make you feel better, but it will help you think better. This book is a starting point for serious, uncomfortable conversations.<br/><br/>I used to be a techno-optimist, believing that faster progress and open access would lead to a better world. I no longer believe that. We must stop pretending and get serious. This book is my urgent and honest attempt to help you prepare for an exponential future we want to live in.