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<b>** PRE-ORDER THE SEQUEL <i>I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI NOW **</i></b><br/><br/><b>THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | </b><b>TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR</b><br/><br/><b>'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' </b><i>Red</i><br/><i><br/>PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?</i><br/> <i><br/> ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?</i><br/><br/> Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.<br/><br/>But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?<br/><br/> Recording her conversations with her psychiatrist over 12 weeks, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, <i>I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki </i>is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.<br/><br/><b><i>I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki</i> comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random</b>

Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life &ldquo;has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me." Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years&rsquo; worth of Trump&rsquo;s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump&rsquo;s financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he&rsquo;ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant &ndash; the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump&rsquo;s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money &ndash; what he had, what he lost, and what he has left &ndash; and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire.