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John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation—and describes how we have come to 'love the product' as we 'hate the producer.' This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest working economists.

Be gay, solve crimes! “I loved this book! Havelock and Sebastian are such great company, brilliant, approachable, fascinating, their relationship is real and touching and relatable. And the mystery is riveting.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author LOUISE PENNY Meet Havelock Harper...

'Persuasive, rigorous, creative and wise. Brilliant' TIM HARFORD 'Kay is both a first-class economist and an excellent writer' FINANCIAL TIME It may feel paradoxical, but in business and in life, our goals are often best achieved when approaching them indirectly. In a traffic jam, the quickest...

Betrayed, shattered, and transformed. Sick of everyone’s crap, can this snarky lone wolf find a place to belong—and maybe even love? Lark Emerson vaguely remembers being happy. After catching her husband and her sister in the sack, the IT professional walks away from twenty-seven years of marriage and takes a job on the border of a shifter community. But when a rogue wolf pack storms her office, she’s captured and mauled. Badly wounded, the forty-something limps home and is shocked when her injuries rapidly heal, her eyesight sharpens, and every sound becomes painfully clear.

Branded a failure. Buried in shame. Then they steal her dog. Once, Elenora “Elmo” Morris was the pride of Ink District. Chosen as Champion for the Immortality Trials, she carried a city’s hopes on her shoulders — until it all went wrong and she crawled home in disgrace. Now Elmo works as...

'Life ain't always sunshine and flowers... I'm learning how to my own s**t and refusing to let it own me. I hope this book will help you do the same.' In his first book, Staying Relevant star Pete Wicks shares the journey that has seen him, overcome grief, mental health trials and challenges and...

ANOTHER CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER! An archaeological dig, a drowned fisherman, and a murdered reporter: a major scoop or a reason to kill? When the body of an aspiring female journalist is found tied to a mud weight in Blackfleet Broad, rumours spread of an explosive newspaper...

ANOTHER CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER! A hidden house, a secret camera, and a bloated corpse – driven to his death or murdered by design. While on paternity leave, Tanner is told of a suicide victim found inside a remote coastal dwelling. But when it emerges that someone may have...

Welcome to Staying Relevant, a book written by two best friends . . . contains swearing, adult themes and outrageous stories from life in the spotlight. If you think you know us already, you're wrong. You're gonna find out a hell of a lot about us. Probably more than you ever needed or wanted to...

2024 Book of the Year for Outstanding Humor/Comedy (Independent Author Network) Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2024 (Critters Readers' Poll) The Grim Reaper, trapped in an IRS Agent's dying body, must regain his powers before he dies and faces judgment for his original sin. Never...

Banished in disgrace, former Detective Constable Lukarde Alfans endured a dangerous journey to a faraway, forbidden land, experiencing harrowing trauma, torment, and treachery. He arrived in Westport, a city on the western coast of the Freewilds, at the behest of a missive sent by a wizened old knight of the Castillands, and of the promise of a new hope for justice to prevail. Lukarde found himself in a city beset by corruption, imperiled by the machinations of the same dread cult that destroyed his life and sent him into exile.

The year is 2075 and Tyrell Elon Zuzerzos has purchased the United States of America. Due to the BioWars, and the lingering viruses and diseases from those wars, human-to-human relationships have been banned. Not to worry, though, Zuzerzos and the Antarctica Ccorporation have developed the Simu-Network, the most advanced simulated intelligence network ever created.

"Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?", fragt die Königin und tobt vor Eifersucht, als der Name ihrer eigenen Stieftochter fällt - Schneewittchen. Viele Jahre hat die eitle Königin ihre Stieftochter vor den Augen der Welt verborgen. Doch als die Königin Schneewittchen gegen deren Willen mit dem reichen Grafen Sebalt verheiraten will, sehen es alle: Schneewittchen ist schöner als die Königin.

Two apparently very different negotiators: a leading hostage negotiator and a mergers and acquisitions dealmaker. One has solved hundreds of high stakes sieges. The other has completed more than sixty corporate M&A deals worth close to $1 billion. In The Work Smarter Guide to Negotiation Kirk and Jim have fused their remarkable life experiences of negotiating in widely contrasting situations to simplify complex issues and provide practical solutions for all kinds of scenarios.

1887. London, but not as you know it. The Industrial Revolution went further than anyone could have imagined, and the sprawling, chaotic metropolis of Even Greater London spreads across the entire southern half of England. The immense Tower casts electricity through the sky, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city around it. The engineer-army of Isambard Kingdom Brunel swarms across the capital, building, demolishing, and rebuilding whatever they see fit. And at the heart of all this sits the country's first Private Investigation Agency.

Dread and terror reign in the Freewilds. The streets of Westport are littered with signs of woe and dismay, of fear and defeat. The Watchers have turned a blind eye to the plight of the people for too long, forsaking the helpless gentry, leaving them prey to monsters and madmen.

In a refugee shanty town on the outskirts of a vast and opulent imperial capital city, an insidious sect of demon worshippers, the Cult of Ebon, began to prey upon the Gathered, a diaspora of peoples displaced from their nations in the aftermath of a mad tyrant's ceaseless wars of conquest long ago. Unwilling to overlook these heinous crimes against a vulnerable, underserved populace, Constable Lukarde Alfans began an investigation that brought him far too close to the truth, leading him to become the cult's next target.

The first of Homer's epic poems tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles' slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks.

'An extraordinary book' The Listener 'An extremely urgent criticism of the present' Daily Telegraph The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the...

Betrayed, bound and resurrected—can a soul-forged survivor reclaim her humanity before time runs out? Harper “House” has endured the impossible. Once Hestia, a formidable paper mage, she trusted the wrong man and lost everything: her magic torn away, her soul sealed into brick. For 162 years she has existed as a sentient house, hiding from those who’d destroy her while sheltering society’s outcasts.