There but for the

Ali Smith

Ali Smith, twice shortlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prizes, is back with the sparkling "There but for the"...'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people wh...

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (#2 Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball b...

If You Should Fail: Why Success Eludes Us and Why It Doesn't Matter

Joe Moran

To fail is human. Get used to it . . .Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions.Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. W...

Shift (Wool #2)

Hugh Howey

The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. The full novel which brings together First, Second and Third Shift.In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away.A...