‘Sara cuts through the noise to show that just six minutes is enough, if you have the drive, passion and consistency to achieve your dream’ Steven Bartlett

Have you ever wanted to start or grow your own business, but found that life keeps getting in the way?

Sara Davies, founder of the global craft business Crafter’s Companion and star of Dragons’ Den, is known for her no-nonsense, down-to-earth entrepreneurship. This book reveals her secrets to success in just six minutes a week.

Filled with stories from Sara’s own career, her 52 invaluable lessons span the year, teaching you everything you need to know to launch, run and grow your business.

From developing ideas and finding mentors, to overcoming hurdles and mastering time management, her quick tips and hacks are balanced with deeper actions to practise over the coming week.

No matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey, you can turn your dream into reality, at a pace that works for you.

Longstanding Labour MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of what went so wrong with Westminster – and how we might solve it.

The extraordinary turmoil we have seen in British politics in the last few years has set records. With the last government, we had the fastest turnover of ministers in our history and more MPs suspended from the House than ever. Rules were flouted repeatedly, sometimes in plain sight. The government seemed unable to escape the brush of sleaze. And just when we thought it was all going to calm down a bit, another scandal would break.

Having spent years as Chair of the Committees on Standards and Privileges, Chris Bryant had a front-row seat for the battle over standards in our politics. Taking us inside the Pugin-carpeted corridors of Westminster, from the prime minister’s office to the Strangers’ Bar, he examines how parliament got into this mess and suggests how it might – at last – get its house in order.

‘Takes a bulldozer to the crumbling edifice of parliamentary standards’ JAMES O’BRIEN * ‘Absolutely riveting’ REVEREND RICHARD COLES * ‘Lively, forensic, engrossing’ OBSERVER * ‘Vital’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL * ‘Blisteringly topical’ TELEGRAPH * ‘Rollicking’ i-PAPER * ‘Unputdownable’ CAROL VORDERMAN

Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister’s memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang ’em and flog ’em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.

‘Masterful, compassionate and hilarious’ – Adam Rutherford

In a diary that takes us behind the scenes of their middling ambition, Nothing But The Truth charts the progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. By way of the painfully archaic traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, and the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage – which most don’t survive . . . here is the brilliant reality of being a frustrated junior barrister.

With a keen eye for the absurd and an obsessive fondness for Twitter, the Secret Barrister reveals the uncomfortable truths and darkest secrets about life in our criminal courts.

Writing as S. J. Fleet, The Secret Barrister’s first novel, The Cut Throat Trial, is available for pre-order now.
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‘Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times
‘Written with compassion, wit and intelligence’ – TLS
‘Excellent . . . a cringe-inducing account of one barrister’s travails’ – The Telegraph

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THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME’S BOSCH AND NETFLIX’S THE LINCOLN LAWYER

SOME CRIMES YOU CAN’T FORGET.
OTHERS YOU CAN’T FORGIVE.

Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance to revive the LAPD’s cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is she must first unravel an unsolved murder, or lose this opportunity of a lifetime…

Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The ex-detective is a living legend – but for how long?

Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years – the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert – which he vowed to close.

With the killer still out there and evidence elusive, Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make…

‘Cements Connelly’s reputation as the master of modern crime fiction’ EXPRESS

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CRIME DOESN’T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:

‘The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation’
IAN RANKIN

‘An incredible writer’
RICHARD OSMAN

‘The best mystery writer in the world’
GQ

‘One of the world’s greatest crime writers’
DAILY MAIL

‘A superb natural storyteller’
LEE CHILD

‘A master’
STEPHEN KING

‘A genius’
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Crime thriller writing of the highest order’
GUARDIAN

‘One of the great storytellers of crime fiction’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME’S BOSCH AND NETFLIX’S THE LINCOLN LAWYER

SOME CRIMES YOU CAN’T FORGET.
Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD’s cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is they must first crack the unsolved murder of the sister of the city councilman who is sponsoring the department – or lose everything…

OTHERS YOU CAN’T FORGIVE.
Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The former homicide detective is a living legend – but for how long? Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years – the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert – which he vowed to close.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW WHO DID IT?
With the killer still out there and evidence elusive – Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make…

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CRIME DOESN’T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:

‘The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation’
IAN RANKIN

‘The best mystery writer in the world’
GQ

‘One of the greatest crime writers’
DAILY MAIL

‘A superb natural storyteller’
LEE CHILD

‘A master’
STEPHEN KING

‘A genius’
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Crime thriller writing of the highest order’
GUARDIAN

‘A terrific writer with pace, style and humanity to spare’
THE TIMES

‘America’s greatest living crime writer’
DAILY EXPRESS

‘One of the great storytellers of crime fiction’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times
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Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal the lies, secrets, failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns?

Nothing But The Truth is The Secret Barrister’s bestselling memoir. It charts an outsider’s progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar, taking in the sometimes absurd traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, to the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage, through the endlessly frustrating experience of being a junior barrister – as a creaking, ailing justice system begins to convince them that something has to change . . .

Full of hilarious, shocking and surprising stories, Nothing But The Truth tracks the Secret Barrister’s transformation from hang ’em and flog ’em, austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning, bestselling, reforming author whose writing in defence of the law is celebrated around the globe. Asking questions about what we understand by justice and what it takes to change our minds, it also reveals the darker side of working in criminal law and how the things our justice system gets wrong are not the things most people expect.
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‘With compassion, wit and intelligence, The Secret Barrister shows why is it that any of us plunge into the harrowing depths of criminal law’ – TLS

‘The Zorro of the criminal bar’ – The Times

– Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat?
– Is the law on the side of the burglar who enters your home?
– Are unelected judges ‘enemies of the people’?

Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.

Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. This ‘fake law’ allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge – worse, we risk letting them make us complicit.

Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds a defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy that is as entertaining as it is vital.

Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.

Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. This ‘fake law’ allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge – worse, we risk letting them make us complicit.

Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds a defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy that is as entertaining as it is vital.