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Deep Work

(2016) One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you’ll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

‘Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors’ New York Times

‘Deep work’ is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.

And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep – spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there’s a better way.

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories — from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air — and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored.

Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

Lost Man

(2021) Jane Harper’s new novel, The Survivors, now available for pre-order

A best crime fiction book of 2019 pick in The Times

A thriller of the year 2019 pick in the Observer

A bestselling Richard & Judy book club pick 2019 by the author of The Dry

WHY DID CAMERON BRIGHT DIE?

He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron’s mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death.

Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart.

They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish.

Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he choose to walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…

PRAISE FOR THE LOST MAN

‘Harper secures her place as queen of outback noir with this haunting family mystery’ Sunday Times

‘Her best book yet’ Evening Standard

‘A riveting, deeply atmospheric read’ Mail on Sunday

‘Harper’s intricate, beautifully woven mystery…sucks you into a world where nothing is ever what it seems and everyone has secrets . . . Told with mesmerising skill’ Daily Mail

My First Encyclopedia

(2019) With more than 100 popular topics arranged alphabetically and colourful photographs and illustrations, My First Encyclopedia is the perfect reference for children who are just learning to look up information for the first time.

Bursting with knowledge and full of amazing facts, the information is presented in age-appropriate text with vocabulary pitched for young readers. From countries and castles to space and sports, topics will feed early learners’ imaginations. Cross-reference boxes link to related entries, and children will enjoy using them to find their favourite topics throughout the book.

Kingfisher’s My First Reference series is the perfect library for any child. Featuring a comprehensive dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and encyclopedia of animals, this fun, informative and beautifully illustrated collection is a wonderful addition to bookshelves everywhere.

يوميات طائر الزنبرك

حكايةٌ تبدو للوهلة الأولى قصةً بوليسيَّة، أو روايةً عن علاقةٍ زوجيَّة تتمزَّق، أو تنقيبًا عن أسرارٍ دفينة من خبايا الحرب العالميَّة الثانية.

تورو أوكادا: شابّ يابانيّ يبحث عن قطّ زوجته المفقود. غير أنَّه سرعان ما يَجدُ نفسه في رحلة بحثٍ عن زوجته نفسها في عالمٍ آخر خفيّ. يتقاطع بحثُه عن القطّ مع بحثه عن الزوجة، فيلتقي زمرةً غريبةً من الأصدقاء والأعداء الذين يأتي كلّ واحد منهم ومعه حكاية: بدءًا من الفتاة المرحة، والسياسيّ الحقود، وانتهاءً بمقاتل انقلبتْ حياتُه بعد ما رآه أثناء الحملة اليابانيّة على منشوريا.

روايةٌ أخّاذة يمتزجُ فيها الهزلُ بالشرّ. عملٌ عبقريٌّ يضاهي في ميدانه روائعَ يوكيو ميشيما.

Tantra Experience

(2012) This life is a gift from existence, to be lived and enjoyed. But with the seemingly impossible and conflicting demands of society, morality and culture, people struggle with feelings of unfulfilled potential, frustration and guilt, rather than living full lives. The world of Tantra has no division between higher and lower. The simple, ordinary, things of life are transformed into great things when we enter into them totally — be it car fixing, floor cleaning or lovemaking. Osho shows how, living this vision, new heights of consciousness and freedom are realized. “The days of tantra are coming. Sooner or later tantra will explode for the first time in the masses, because for the first time the time is ripe — ripe to take sex naturally. One thing to be remembered always: if you are not very alert you may go on believing that you are moving into tantra, and you may be simply rationalizing your sexuality — it may be nothing but sex, rationalized in the terminology of tantra. If you move into sex with awareness, it can turn into tantra. If you move into tantra with unawareness, it can fall and become ordinary sex.’

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How I Built This

(2020) WALL STREET JOURNAL #1 Bestselling Business Book Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture. Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips). Award-winning journalist and NPR host Guy Raz has interviewed more than 200 highly successful entrepreneurs to uncover amazing true stories like these. In How I Built This, he shares tips for every entrepreneur’s journey: from the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to finally paying yourself a real salary. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of starting their own business or wondered how trailblazing entrepreneurs made their own dreams a reality.

Being And Nothingness

(2020) First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’تtre et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of “the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge”. This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.

What gives our lives significance, Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness, is not pre-established for us by God or nature but is something for which we ourselves are responsible. At the heart of this view are Sartre’s radical conceptions of consciousness and freedom. Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Combining this with the unsettling view that human existence is characterized by radical freedom and the inescapability of choice, Sartre introduces us to a cast of ideas and characters that are part of philosophical legend: anguish; the “bad faith” of the memorable waiter in the café; sexual desire; and the “look” of the Other, brought to life by Sartre’s famous description of someone looking through a keyhole.

Above all, by arguing that we alone create our values and that human relationships are characterized by hopeless conflict, Sartre paints a stark and controversial picture of our moral universe and one that resonates strongly today.

Rebel

(2019) Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion. But never underestimate the Rebel.

With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marie Lu plunges readers back into the unforgettable world of Legend for a truly grand finale.

Eden Wing has been living in his brother’s shadow for years. Even though he’s a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing’s little brother.

A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he’d rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe-even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel’s life.

As the two brothers struggle to accept who they’ve each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that’s grown between them. Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City’s dark side, even his legendary brother can’t save him. At least not on his own . . .

Supernova

(2019) All’s fair in love and anarchy in Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer’s thrilling Renegades Trilogy

This volume sees Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City.