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<b>'Fabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of <i>London Orbital</i></b><br/><br/><b>'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance.' STUART MACONIE</b><br/><b><br/><i>'Bowieland </i>will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs.' ALEXANDER LARMAN, <i>THE OBSERVER</i></b><br/><b><br/>'A sublime, time-travelling quest.' TIFFANY MURRAY, author of <i>My Family and Other Rock Stars</i></b><br/><b><br/>'A joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie's genius in the pavements.' KEVIN LOADER, producer of <i>The Buddha of Suburbia<br/><br/></i></b><b>BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...</b><br/><br/>Following open heart surgery, Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - walk if you want to stay alive. So, when his hero died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The figure who was to so many a companion and guide had left no single focal point for homage. To reconnect with him, Carpenter would take a walk into the past, to the places where David Jones became something more: David Bowie.<br/><br/>Leaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeyed through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts. Carpenter's quest, a series of happy accidents and chance meetings, took him to Bickley as well as Berlin and Brixton, to Eel Pie Island as well as Heddon Street and Beckenham.<br/><br/>Carpenter's perambulations echo Bowie's own wandering creative spirit. They reveal multiple influences, both conscious and unconscious, in Bowie's creative development. Ultimately, Carpenter reaches a fresh understanding of where Bowie sits in the culture, not as an outlier, but as part of a tradition, informed by those artists, poets and musicians who passed on their wisdom to him. A celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, and by no means just for Bowie obsessives, BOWIELAND opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person&rsquo;s breath against your neck. That&rsquo;s the only courageous thing a person can do. In the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world three tiny figures sit at the end of a pier. Most people don&rsquo;t even notice them. Most people think it&rsquo;s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers seek refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days together. They tell jokes, they share secrets, and they commit small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into 18-year-old Louisa&rsquo;s care. Determined to learn how it came to be and to decide what to do with it, Louisa embarks on a cross-country journey. But the closer she gets to the painting&rsquo;s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes. In this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art, Louisa is proof that happy endings don&rsquo;t always take the form we expect.

<b>The instant <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller<br/>No. 1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br/><br/>'How else to put this? Bloody hell'<i> The Guardian</i><br/>'Devastating . . . Funny . . . Highly enjoyable' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' <i>Financial Times</i><br/><br/>'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' Marina Hyde</b><br/><br/>Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.<br/><br/>From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, <i>Careless People</i> exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite - and the consequences this has for all of us.<br/><br/>Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, <i>Careless People</i> will change how you see the world.<br/><br/><b>'A <i>Bridget Jones's Diary</i>-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' <i>The Times</i><br/>'Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world' <i>The New York Times</i></b>

<b>The enchanting world of A Study in Drowning comes to life through letters, poems, art, and more in this beautifully illustrated full-color novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid, featuring over forty illustrations, expanded and new text, stunning endpapers, and romantic rose gold foil for a jaw-dropping addition to the beloved dark academia series.</b><br/><br/><i>I will love you to ruination, the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek. </i><br/><br/><i>Yours or mine? I asked. </i><br/><br/><i>The Fairy King did not answer.</i> <br/><br/>Effy and Preston have been torn apart by the wars of men, the power of words, and the specter of magicbut it was through stories that they found each other. Relive Effy and Prestons love story through their own pens in this immersive collection of mementos, illustrations, maps, blueprints, diary entries, and more. Read Angharad with Effy's annotations; sneak excerpts of Preston's diary; see the architectural sketches that brought Effy to Hiraeth; get your own ticket to Saltney; and experience the never-before-seen epilogue to Effy and Prestons romance.  <br/><br/>A perfect gift for fans of A Study in Drowning and A Theory of Dreaming and anyone who wants to embark on their own dark academia journey, this gorgeously illustrated novella collects ephemera from Effy and Preston as they remember the romance and prepare for a new chapter in their livestogether.

<b>'My favourite kind of grand space opera'<br/>BEN AARONOVITCH</b><br/><br/>Three heroes. Two love stories. One prophecy.<br/><br/>An empire brought to ruin.<br/>A legend destined to repeat.<br/>A legacy of inexorable revolution...<br/><br/>This is where it ends. This is where it starts.<br/><br/><b>The Order of Legends trilogy is a centuries-spanning adventure unmissable for fans of the spacefaring found family of Becky Chambers, the magical London of V. E. Schwab, and the epic climate-craft of N. K. Jemisin.</b>

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