The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*

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Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns.

Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen on hard times - as Diana Taverner learns when the past lands on her desk. An operation carried ou...

As an economist, a lot of our decisions can be boiled down to a simple question: Am I getting a good deal?

Professor Corinne Low introduces us to a radical new framework: treating women as economic agents who can maximise their personal 'profit' in the same way that a business makes money.

Low's groundbreaking research interrogates the economics of women's lives, showing how our most significant decisions are shaped by overlooked internal and external factors. She shines n...

Plucky fourteen-year-old Adunni is in Lagos, excited to finally enrol in school. Having escaped her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she's found refuge with Tia, a kind and brilliant woman on her own troubled journey of self-discovery.

But it's not so simple to run away from your past.

On the night before she is due to join her new classmates for her first lesson, a terrible knocking at the front gate summons Adunni back to her home village, Ikati, ...

A history of twenty-nine European borderlines from a political analyst and Tim Marshall's 'borders expert'.