The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Complete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office. `A compelling read`
- Financial Times `A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful & often darkly funny account of one woman`s bid for presidential history.` Sunday Times ` Her new book is more gossipy, it is meaner, more entertaining & more wrong-headed than anything she or her speechwriters have written before.` Observer ` What Happened is highly entertaining. It is spirited, well-written & informative.` Guardian` In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I`ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I`m letting my guard down.`
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking & feeling during one of the most controversial & unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs & infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference & an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet. In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking & devastating loss, & how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterwards. With humour & candour, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet
- the rituals, relationships & reading that got her through, & what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age & appearance, & the double standard confronting women in politics. She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on democracy by a foreign adversary. By analysing the evidence & connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, & why Americans need to understand them to protect their values & democracy in the future. The election of 2016 was unprecedented & historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign & its aftermath
- both a deeply intimate account & a cautionary tale.



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History as you`ve never seen it before, walk through the past & find out what happened when. Step into What Happened When in the World, a unique historical atlas for kids & discover the global events that shaped our world. Watch the key moments in our history unravel on the page in front of you through colourful, illustrated 3D maps. Follow the devastating spread of the black death through Europe, the Roman Empire`s expansion to North Africa & the Middle East, & the impact of world war II on the globe. What Happened When in the World reveals our history through 60 stunning, specially commissioned historical maps which chart the migration of humans, the spread of the black death, D-day landings & much more. ...

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the `natural services` that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries & much more, it has been estimated that these & other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature`s services for granted, imagining them free & limitless.. .until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India`s vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) but also the positive (how birds protect fruit harvests, coral reefs protect coasts from storms & how the rainforests absorb billions of tonnes of carbon released from cars & power stations). Tony Juniper`s book will change whole way you think about life, the planet & the economy. ...

Rainforests are key to the health of our world
- they maintain the water & air cycles, store carbon, & have yielded countless
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Kelvin Mac Kenzie on his transformation from the editor of a populist anti-immigrant newspaper to someone who now knows just how much migration has done for this country. He feels he is in a minority: a white man who supports migrants & takes on the increasingly hysterical anti-minority lobbies & communities. In this remarkable essay he reminds us of the economic, cultural & historical importance of immigration. An unexpected book by a man famous for speaking his mind. Provocations is a groundbreaking new series of short polemics composed by some of the most intriguing voices in contemporary culture. Never less than sharp, intelligent & controversial Provocations is a major new contribution to some of the most vital discussions in society today. ...

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, & of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, & Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children
- Leo`s son drowns when he`s 12, while Bill`s son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, & the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties & the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships & a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug & thrill.
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REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, & the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense & troubled relationship, of the women in their lives & their work, of art & hysteria, love & seduction & their sons
- born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.
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In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic & political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann & the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin`s official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants
- the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, & the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy & debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he`d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, & now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life & on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, & reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon & settings ranging from Tokyo`s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston. Funny & sobering, playful & philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a must read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running. ...

From NYT bestselling authors Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda) & Adam Silvera (They Both Die At The End) comes a long-awaited collaboration about two very different boys who can`t decide if the universe is pushing them together or pulling them apart. Meet Arthur & Ben. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it`s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn`t be carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend`s things. But when the boys have a chance meeting at the post office, they leave wondering what exactly the universe does have in store for them. What if
- in a city of eight million people
- they can`t find each other again? What if they do.. . & then can`t nail a first date even after three do-overs? What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work & Ben doesn`t try hard enough? What if life really isn`t like a Broadway play? But what if it is?WHAT IF IT`S US PRAISE FOR WHAT IF IT`S US: ” Romantic, realistic & sweet, this perfectly captures New York, teenage love & life in that gray area when you`re not quite an adult & not quite a child either”
- Lauren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: ` History Is All You Left Me overflows with tenderness & heartache. There isn`t a teenager alive who won`t find their heart described perfectly on these pages.` Patrick Ness ` This book will make you cry, think, & then cry some more.` Nicola Yoon ` Bold & haunting.` Lauren Oliver on They Both Die At The End `A phenomenal talent.` Juno Dawson PRAISE FOR BECKY ALBERTALLI: ` The love child of John Green & Rainbow Rowell.` Teen Vogue Praise for Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda: `I love you, Simon. I love you! & I love this fresh, funny, live-out-loud book.` Jennifer Niven `A wonderfully charismatic story about coming-of-age & coming out`. Bookseller


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