From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If?
- the man who created xkcd & explained the laws of science with cartoons
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If?
- the man who created xkcd & explained the laws of science with cartoons
- comes

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Through rallies & marches, in polite drawing rooms & freezing prison cells & the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, & though she is rich & clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, & vows to pay the ultimate price for women`s freedom. May is fifteen, & already sworn to the cause, though she & her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who`s grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together & in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May & Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice? ...

Through rallies & marches, in polite drawing rooms & freezing prison cells & the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, & though she is rich & clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, & vows to pay the ultimate price for women`s freedom. May is fifteen, & already sworn to the cause, though she & her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who`s grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together & in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May & Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice? ...

When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband Max to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation... Advent Island is a place beyond the reaches of Bea`s most fitful imaginings. It`s not just the rats & the hordes of mosquitos & the weevils in the powdered milk. Past the confines of their stuffy little house, amidst the damp & the dust & the sweltering heat, rumours are spreading of devil chasers who roam the island on the hunt for evil spirits. & then there are the noises from the church at night. Yet, to the amusement of the locals & the bafflement of her husb&, Bea gradually adapts to life on the isl&. But with the dreadful events heralded by the arrival of an unexpected, wildly irritating & always-humming house guest, Advent Island becomes a hostile place once again. & before long, trapped in the jungle & in the growing fever of her husband`s insanity, Bea finds herself fighting for her freedom, & for her life.*A Stylist Must-Read Book of 2018*` Thrilling` Elle Magazine`I was sucked into its dark beating heart & wasn`t spat out until I`d turned the final page` Claire Fuller ...

After an Arctic winter, a British recession, & a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists & their dog embark on an adventure in the wild & beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing
- Greece is deep in economic crisis. & if fiscal failure can't overturn the couple's escapade in rural Greece, perhaps macabre local customs, a scorpion invasion, zero dog-tolerance, health scares, & touchy expats will. This is a humorous & insightful journey through one of the last unspoilt regions of Greece. It is full of encounters with warm-hearted, often eccentric, Greeks who show that this troubled country still has heroes, if not euros. In a hillside village in the Mani, the locals share their lives, their laughter & their stories & help chart the couple's own passage back to happiness. They even find a place in their hearts for their Greek nemesis
- the local pungent goat cheese. Things really can only get feta -

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` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

` Hilarious, insightful & has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The Establishment From the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank & funny memoirs of one bewildered Labour activist who tried to carry on as usual long after politics had stopped making sense. With a literary flair that has been compared to Donald Trump`s tweets, John O` Farrell attempts to explain the alarming rise of populist politics, Labour`s twenty-year identity crisis, & why you should never tell your mother you are doing a radio phone-in, unless you want her ringing up to tell everyone she agrees with you. On everything. Along the way, John stood for parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he took his campaigning skills to America (but still Obama got in); & he was dubbed `the sickest man in politics` by the Daily Mail when in truth he`s only the second or third. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Trump & learning you were governed by the DUP. A twenty-year journey from hope to despair & back again, packed with political confessions even more outrageous than running through fields of wheat. ...

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe`s Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age`s defining books
- the book that marked African
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In Azar Nafisi`s personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful & complex mother, against the background of a country`s political revolution. Nafisi`s intelligent & complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important & romantic life, created mesmerising fictions about herself, her family, & her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. When her father began to see other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi`s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal
- as well as political, cultural, & social
- injustices. ” Things I`ve Been Silent About” is also a powerful historical picture of a family that spans the many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, & a troubled homeland is a new triumph from a modern master of the memoir.

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