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When English mathematician Matthew Watkins went to San Francisco to study an early version of ChatGPT, he expected dry technical work. Instead, he uncovered a series of 'rare tokens' that made the system go haywire. Some produced gibberish. Others turned it hostile. One...
How did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia?Why were a million Armenians killed during WWI?How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran?Why did the Arab Spring fail?Could Trump's peace deal lead to a new Middle East?THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE...
Three lives, one hundred years, one forgotten town.In 2024, Nina's small aircraft crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Lost, freezing and alone, she stumbles upon Sunrise - an abandoned frontier town that is strangely well-maintained.In 2003, Sunrise's golden...
When the dressmakers had gone, she wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed tightly. Their visit had been awful; they had seen her pink and blue flesh, its hairs, dents and ripples. Her poor body, made to endure such scrutiny. But if she were really to go into the...
The Third Reich cast a long shadow, not least over those born in Germany at that time. Whether the children of Nazi perpetrators or Holocaust survivors, they all had to come to terms with their dark past, based on an inhuman racial ideology.Renate was born in 1941, the...
A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'BARRAGÁN WRITES WITH IMPECCABLE EMPATHY . . . COMPELLINGLY READABLE' BARBARA DEMICK'ASTONISHING . . . I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.A TOUR DE FORCE' JON LEE ANDERSON When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to...
'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEÁN HEWITTIt begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the...
From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, and yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by the...
From the Locus and Hugo Award-winning author Ray Nayler, this haunting novel blends history and speculative wonder into a story of survival, loyalty and the fragile beauty of life in the darkest of times.Praise for Ray Nayler'first-rate science fiction' - CORY...
'A vision of multiplicity and endless change and continuity' Los Angeles Times'Rich, warm, and as easy on the soul as an afternoon on the beach' KirkusSearoad is a sandy track that runs between the town of Klatsand and the rugged Oregon coast.Across this stretch, locals...
There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. 'The air begins to tingle', wrote John Dos Passos of twenties New York. 'It's tonight if you drink enough, talk enough, walk far enough, that the train of magical events will...
Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shone. The collected best of Le Guin's blog, No Time to Spare, presents perfectly crystallised...
'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood...
'Essential reading, as far as I'm concerned . . . Will become a classic' NIGELLA LAWSON'The millennial answer to Mary Berry and Jamie Oliver' MAIL ON SUNDAYThis is a book for people who spend most of their time thinking about what to have for dinner.For people who...
'Obscenely good and very funny' Catherine Lacey'You've never read anything like it' Elizabeth McCracken'A knockout debut' Jessica AnthonyA blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel following a young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school...
'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and...
'Both book and life are unforgettable' New York Times 'Read it twice and then read it again' Ann PatchettAt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took...
Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they matter? What caused so many to be lost? And can we create more of them?In The Path More Travelled, acclaimed geographer and travel writer Nicholas Crane explores the...
'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUSAdora Hazzard has it all figured out.A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcée, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss...
You don't know their names, but they own the house you rent. They own your hospitals, nurseries and care homes, the media you consume and the companies you work for. They even own the tools your union uses to fight back. Business is a contest - and they say their people...
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