What if children are a great audience for art?
What if they are in fact better equipped to engage deeply with stories than adults?
What if humans' ability to appreciate art is, if not innate, awakened early in childhood?

Well, then we'd better do our best to make some good kids' books.

Barnett has published more than 60 children's books, which have been translated into 30+ languages and have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, winning many international prizes along the way. Make Believe is his incisive, intimate, and timely invitation to approach children's literature not only as an art form worthy of deep study and criticism, but as a portal into the lives of the children. And at a time when we are faced with a national literacy crisis, he champions the profound joys of literature and the importance of reading for pleasure.

Written with humor and academic rigor, Make Believe reads like a letter from one's smartest and funniest friend.

Pleasure explores why so many women feel disconnected from their bodies and from sex, and what it takes to change that.

Part memoir, part cultural investigation, the book traces Emma-Louise Boynton's journey from being unable to orgasm and battling a years-long eating disorder, to rebuilding her relationship with sex, desire and intimacy.
The story begins in the sex therapy room, where Boynton first discovered that her struggle with bulimia was deeply entangled with her experience of sexual numbness. From there, Pleasure expands outward – drawing on expert interviews, cultural analysis and immersive research (including four days on a porn set) – to reveal that this rupture between women and their bodies is not a personal failure, but a systemic one.

From narrow ideals around desirability and sexist narratives about aging, to the policing of women's pleasure, and the emotional alienation of app-based intimacy, Boynton interrogates the forces that teach women to mistrust their bodies and perform rather than feel their pleasure.

Crucially, Boynton offers a clear and practical roadmap for rebuilding desire, confidence and connection. Provocative, intimate and timely, Pleasure reframes women's relationship to sex and embodiment, arguing that reclaiming pleasure is not indulgent, but essential.

What comes to mind when you picture your older self?

For too long, social media and the fitness industry have prioritised aesthetics over our health. Every year, we are bombarded with the message to ‘train for our bikini body’, warping our relationship with exercise and flooding us with misinformation. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether.

When Elizabeth Davies wet herself during an exercise class, she realised she knew next to nothing about her body. Ditching her law career to become a personal trainer meant she discovered some real home truths along the way. Like learning that muscle mass decreases by approximately 3-8% per decade after the age of thirty, or that osteoporosis affects one in three women over the age of 50 worldwide.

Finding the best products to fight wrinkles might make you look younger, but they won’t protect your muscles or your bone density. And what about mobility? Your pelvic floor? Your heart?

Introducing Training For Your Old Lady Body: learn how to move your body now in a way that sets you up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as you grow older.

This is not a six-week bikini body transformation. It’s a way of training for life.

'Beautifully written' – Telegraph

'Stunning, lyrical and deeply felt.' Clover Stroud

We Are Each Other tells Jess' story of becoming a mother while losing her own to a sudden terminal diagnosis. It's about loss, yes, but at its core it's about how we love when we are living on the threshold of life and death with someone central to our being and place in the world.

Jess' mother was the beloved Tessa Jowell MP. She lived a public life, but this is not the story of a public person – it's the story of a mother and daughter, walking both sides of life and death together.

The writing began as a way to metabolise her own experience, it tells the story of the way they loved, the way Jess grieved, and the way she renewed in that life-defining year. But the long and enduring journey of completing it over several years sharpened and galvanised its ultimate purpose to be about so much more than Jess and Tessa. It is ultimately for anyone who has loved and lost someone at the centre of their world and identity. That is its purpose: to give language and greater articulation to this most universal human experience.

'Full of wisdom and vulnerability' CARIAD LLOYD
'An urgent, empowering read' FEARNE COTTON
'A guide for living according to our own desires and drives, rather than patriarchal dictates aimed at minimising us' SARI BOTTON

*The new book for women who want to live differently – featuring interviews with fascinating, inspirational women from all walks of life*

When Poorna Bell found herself at the height of grief in her mid-thirties, she spent each day just trying to survive. As her new self began to emerge back into the world, she realised she had spent a lifetime playing by the rules that had been set for women.

But who set these rules? And why? In her powerful, inspirational new book, Poorna Bell asks you to reimagine your future. To know that you can write your own story – to find the confidence to live exactly as you want to, and reclaim your joy. To discover that if you want more, you can get it.

Join Poorna as she paves the way for a new future, including interviews with Marian Keyes, Asma Khan, Hollie McNish, Mariella Frostrup, Heidi Clements, Luisa Dunn, Cindy Gallop, Seema Anand, Catherine Gray, Sam Baker, Jennifer Cox and more.

In 2020, at the age of 100, Tetsuyo Ishii was interviewed by her local paper in Hiroshima. Her positive outlook, wholesome lifestyle and connection to her community instantly captured the hearts of readers. In this charming book, Granny Tetsuyo shares the optimistic principles by which she lives her life, and the simple daily rituals that sustain her.

After retiring from her job as a local teacher and sadly losing her husband, Granny Tetsuyo has learned to live a fulfilling life in solitude. Whether she’s attending the friendship club she has held for nearly twenty-five years, or tending to her garden, Granny Tetsuyo continues to share her generosity with the world.

Filled with personal stories, advice, traditional Japanese recipes and photo diary entries, this is a snapshot of a life well-lived and a guide to finding joy in every day.

This Japanese belief has existed for thousands of years. Through tidying up and discarding their
possessions, characters in these stories come face-to-face with their memories and realize that somethings exist but cannot be seen with their eyes. Each story touches on the moment when people realizewhat happiness in life means and choosing things that truly spark joy.

In these stories, Miko, a professional tidying consultant based on Marie, helps people tidy their homesand identify items that bring them joy. Along with her companion, an opinionated talking box namedBoxter, Miko has a special power that no one else knows about – the ability to hear the voices of objects in a room. The stories are comical, compelling and emotional and Miko’s tidying skills are frequentlychallenged.

Drawing on both professional and lived experience, Izadi challenges conventional wisdom surrounding diets and obesity treatment, offering readers a clear, compassionate and restorative framework for reclaiming power over food and losing weight for good. Diets Are Why We’re Fat serves as a defiant call to arms against the diet industry’s exploitation and manipulation. By learning to truly trust and believe in themselves again, readers can flip a defiant middle finger to the industry that has profited from their suffering for far too long and finally find the mental peace and physical balance they so deserve.

We all need protein to help us balance blood sugar, build muscle, and maintain energy and concentration. Whether you’re a dedicated gym goer, a woman experiencing perimenopausal symptoms or just want to boost protein in your family meals without relying on ultra-processed foods, Protein in 15 has you covered. Real food for real people, the recipes are simple and speedy but big on flavour and are made with easy-to-source ingredients.

Whether you fancy a spicy chicken burger, banging steak burrito, meat-free bolognese or creamy chicken harissa pasta, this book is for you. Chapters include:

– Easy-peasy dinners
– Plant-powered meals
– Lunchbox inspo
– Home takeaways
– Fast prep slow-cook bangers
– Pasta and noodle winners

Protein in 15 will show you that it’s possible to eat a protein-rich diet using fresh, whole foods.

Joe Wicks is on a mission to make the world fitter, healthier, and happier. Best known as The Body Coach, he has transformed the way millions approach fitness and nutrition through his online HIIT workouts, bestselling books, and hugely popular fitness app. Joe shot to fame with his Lean in 15 recipe book series and became known as the nation’s P.E. teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading daily livestreamed workouts for families around the world, which earned him an MBE.