Growing up with a parent’s addiction leaves ripple effects that can be felt well into adulthood. The trauma of familial dysfunction can weave into the fabric of your life, affecting relationships, parenting and work, and even leading to you questioning your own worth, mistrusting intimacy and feeling disconnected from yourself.

But it doesn’t have to stay this way. In this nurturing book, clinical psychologist Dr Tian Dayton draws on expertise from decades working with adult children of alcoholics, as well as her own personal experience, to empower you to embrace recovery and break the chain of intergenerational dysfunction. She will guide you as you examine how addiction shaped your family, understand the imprint it left on your childhood and discover tools to heal and thrive. You will learn to process attachment wounds, reconnect with your body, regulate emotions and move towards post-traumatic growth.

Grounded in research, enriched by client narratives and filled with practical exercises based on Dr Dayton's own Relational Trauma Repair (RTR) model, this book will allow you to recover from buried hurt and give your inner child a voice, illuminating the path towards a better future for yourself and your loved ones.

Aandstories vir kleuters is een van die bekendste, mees klassieke versamelings van die wêreld se gewildste sprokies en verhale. Sedert die eerste Afrikaanse uitgawe in 1970, is die bundel talle kere herdruk en was die kenmerkende "groot rooi boek" deel van duisende kinders se grootwordjare. Dit is ideaal vir voorlees met slaaptyd, maar ook vir ouer kinders wat al self lees, en die pragtige volkleurillustrasies betower kinders al vir dekades lank. Buiten 14 bekende kleuterrympies, is daar 8 immergewilde verhale: Rooikappie, Klein
Duimpie, Gouelokkies, Jan en die boontjierank, Aspoestertjie, Heidi, Sneeuwitjie, Die lelike eendjie en Die skone slaapster. Die teks is hersien deur Elsa Silke en sorg dat hierdie wonderlike stories weer heerlik lees vir vandag se kind.

What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What's the point?

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) - and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.

In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It's not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it's a shame not to be.

After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.

Don’t just chase your goals, smash them – with this empowering, action-filled approach…

Paul Mort lives the change he empowers in other people. Now, following on from his audiobook and his sold-out coaching programmes, this new book shows how to break out of your rut, build a happier, healthier life and quit the excuses we tell ourselves. The result? Not just living the life you want, but bringing your best self to your family and friends too.

Paul breaks down big goals and big dreams into actions and mindsets that demolish excuses, negativity and procrastination. In short, punchy chapters, Paul shows how having a strong sense of self and a stable, powerful focus means you can achieve your goals unaffected by other people’s drama, negativity or destructive habits. No BS, no judgements, just support and clarity.

Chapters include:

• The essence of an electric life – living a supercharged existence
• You’re just a white belt – how to deal with self-sabotage
• ‘Great story, bro,’ – the bullshit we tell ourselves
• How to survive without Social Media
• We all need something to slay – the need for purpose
• Sh*t smells but it’s warm – escaping comfort zones
• Finding a Wolfpack – spending time with like-minded people
• Nailing your goal to a process
• Morning routines / Establishing and keeping habits
• Get rid of the fear of what people think of us
• Procrastination: how to make taking action easy

A dazzling literary achievement that brings to life the shattering emotional impact of World War Two on ordinary people.

Cambridge, 1942. Twins Tessa and Theo had always shared everything – until the summer Tessa spent studying in France. She hasn’t been the same since. But before Theo can find out why, he is recruited by the RAF and disappears into the skies.

Determined to carve her own path, Tessa joins the clandestine Special Operations Executive, slipping into the shadows of occupied France. It will be dangerous work, but France is the home of her greatest love – and her darkest secret. Tessa has many reasons for wanting to return.

Two years later, only one of them comes home.

I was bleeding out and halfway to Hell when God sent me an angel.

He had no business sending her to a man like me. She was sunshine wrapped in pink glitter - soft where I was jagged, and gentle enough to hurt. Under the sick glow of a streetlamp, I was delirious enough to tell her she was beautiful. And when she smiled and asked me to say it again, I almost believed I could be saved.

But then she asked me something else. Something that stole the air from my lungs.

“Can you keep a secret?”

Turns out, even angels have sins. And this one should’ve left me to die before my world destroyed us both….

No good ever comes from a redhead in a stolen dress with her whole life packed at her feet.

I should’ve known Penny Price was trouble the moment smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game. I thought the only thing she stole was my watch. Little did I know, she also started a war.

Because the second her muddy boots stomped down the stairs of the club, my empire began to crack.

My cashmere charm is fraying. My gentleman’s mask is slipping. My enemies can smell the weakness. Penny Price thinks she’s dragging me to hell. But she doesn’t realise - hell’s exactly where I belong.

After all, it’s wonderfully warm among the flames…

Join Ali Dawson and her cold case team for another thrilling case.

Ali Dawson is a police detective who leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel to the distant past to solve them. But Ali and the team haven't been allowed to time-travel ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, never to be seen again.

To distract herself from meaningless tasks, Ali decides to look into a present-day case - an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. She believes the death is linked to a psychic medium called Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly. Ali goes to one of Power's shows where he claims to be in contact with Jones.

When Ali notices that evening that her cat, Terry, has gone missing, she decides to go back in time just long enough to prevent Terry from escaping through his open cat flap. A dangerous plan which backfires, and she finds herself once more in Victorian London, where she meets Jones, as well as Power, and the darkly mysterious Cain Templeton with whom Ali has unfinished business from her previous visit to the past . . .

The steamy, enemies-to-lovers dark mafia romance from the TikTok sensation, perfect for readers of Ana Huan, Rina Kent, and Danielle Lori.

She’s seeking redemption. He’s determined to ruin her.

My name is Rory Carter, and I do bad things. I might smile like an angel, but underneath, my soul is far from clean. Not even my weekly calls to the Sinners Anonymous hotline can change that.

Marrying the seventy-year-old head of the Cosa Nostra to save my father was the closest I’ve come to doing good. And I was surviving - one lie, one smile, one silk dress at a time - until his nephew showed up uninvited.

Angelo “Vicious” Visconti. A beautiful monster with a sharper tongue than conscience. They say he went straight years ago, but I don’t believe it.

Because Angelo is danger wrapped in desire - and when he looks at me, I can’t tell if he wants to ruin me or save me.

Boost your mental health and heal the roots of anxiety, not just its symptoms. Transform the emotional and relational patterns that keep your mind and body on high alert, so you can embrace the life you want and deserve.

Discover how to create lasting change with Tools for Life – Dr Kirren Schnack’s ten essential therapeutic skills everyone should know.

With over two decades of experience as an Oxford-trained Clinical Psychologist – and insights drawn from her growing online community – Dr Kirren shares powerful ways to understand yourself: how your attachment style, childhood, trauma and personality shape the way you think, feel, and relate.

Her practical tools will help you:

• Understand why you feel stuck
• Stop people-pleasing
• Build healthy boundaries
• Heal past pain

Annemarié van Niekerk returns from The Hague to South Africa for her gentle friend Ruben’s funeral – he and his mother were murdered in a farm killing. This journey triggers memories of other journeys: growing up in Port Elizabeth, teaching at UNITRA in Umtata where she became entangled in a relationship with a black writing colleague, causing conflict with her father. Then Hillbrow and Yeoville, where she and Denzel live together against the law, until violence penetrates their relationship.

The final journey is a return to Ruben’s murder and his killers, seeking understanding. Van Niekerk intertwines her story with an exploration of violence against women, apartheid and its legacy, guilt and powerlessness, and identity and complicity. Under a Blood Red
Sky is a moving personal journey – from violence to mercy – masterfully told.

A functional medicine approach to healing Irritable Bowel Syndrome, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hashimoto’s Protocol.

You don’t have to accept bloating, cramping, urgency or pain as your 'normal.' When clinical pharmacist Izabella Wentz was first diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, she was told her digestion was simply 'overly sensitive.' Like many people, she tried to live with the discomfort, until she discovered there were real, treatable reasons for her symptoms. And the same can be true for you. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to uncover the true source of your symptoms and create a personalised healing plan to restore your gut and your life.

You’ll discover how to:

• Understand what normal digestion really looks like
• Identify potential root causes behind IBS symptoms
• Explore testing options – from gluten intolerance and SIBO to enzyme function and triggering infections
• Remove reactive foods and triggers with targeted nutrition strategies
• Restore microbial balance
• Rebuild digestive function with tailored supplements and lifestyle shifts
• Manage symptoms gently while you work toward lasting healing

Whether you’ve been struggling with IBS for years or were just diagnosed, this is your invitation to dig deeper, heal smarter and reclaim your energy, confidence and well-being – with guidance from one of the world’s leading voices in root cause healing.

As the emperor lays dying, the once-great Azalea Dynasty plunges towards civil war. While its princes plot for power, a more hidden war - to become the next empress - occupies the imperial court.

Wei Yin - peasant girl turned concubine to the cruel Prince Terren - has already endured unimaginable suffering. Ripped from her family, she has no title, no allies, and no escape. But she does have a secret . . .

In the shadows of the palace, surrounded by enemies, she is learning a skill forbidden to women. Because when words are weapons and poetry holds an ancient magic, the fate of a girl - and a nation - can both be rewritten. All she has to do is compose the perfect poem - a tale so powerful, it can kill any man, even the next emperor.

My world is on fire, and I’m in love with the girl who struck the match.

Blood on my hands and a body at my feet only confirm what I’ve always known - Penny Price was destined to be my ruin. The gentleman I pretended to be is long gone. My sins bleed through the fabric of my life, staining everything she touches.

I tried to walk away. Failed. Tried to destroy her. Failed again. Now we’re both burning, slow dancing in the flames.

I tell myself I’ll rise from the ashes once she’s gone - but I can’t let her go.

And Penny… she’d have to run to the ends of the earth to escape me.

“You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away—she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.”

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.

Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one.

Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.

When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg’s future.

But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister’s charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.

Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women.

But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences …

"I’ve always been told that if I was good, I’d attract good things. So then, why am I unhappy?"

From a young age, women are taught to put everyone else first. The result? A society full of ‘Good Girls’, pushing themselves to meet expectations while ignoring their own needs. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In this whip-smart and empowering book, psychotherapist Marta Martínez Novoa explains that people pleasing is not a personality failing, but a common response to trauma – an instinct to become more appealing to a threat, and a way to feel safe. Taking you on a journey into your past, this book will help you understand why you feel the way you do in the present, and gives you practical tools to build a future where you feel bolder, safer and more confident in everything you do.

If you’re done being a people pleaser and ready to start living for you, this is your toolkit to wake up and finally take charge.

KILLING IS PART OF JASON BOURNE'S JOB. BUT THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.

When his lover, Johanna, is murdered, Jason Bourne finds himself drawn into a murky world as he pursues a revenge more personal than anything he has felt before. But can he unravel the reasons behind Johanna's death in time, or will more people die unnecessarily?

From California Governor Gavin Newsom (and a possible contender in the race for Democratic candidate in the 2028 Presidential election) comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics.

‘Go slow,’ his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has never known such a speed. For Newsom, the California Dream is what lured his father’s family from Ireland, six generations ago. His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later Newsom would be elected as mayor.

Newsom has never lived anywhere but California. His childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into a world of wealth and connections. But the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his mother’s perseverance and his father’s reverence of California – not only its wildness, but its opportunity.

In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom traces the forces that have defined his ambitions as a politician. As mayor of San Francisco, he made waves when he violated state law in order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He launched bold efforts to counter climate change, improve mental health care, and enhance gun safety. Elected as governor and entering office into immediate hyper-partisan headwinds from Washington, DC, Newsom has constantly and consistently stuck his neck out.

Here, he reflects on the long journey that ultimately shaped him into one of the most recognizable and accomplished elected officials in America.

A revolutionary diet cookbook and weight-loss plan - eat filling meals to take back control of your hunger and your weight.

Restriction only leads to short-term results. And hunger drives weight regain. If you want to lose weight for life, the secret is feeling full. In this revolutionary cookbook, Lindsay Wilson - weight loss coach and creator of online community Filling Meals - shares 100 fuss-free recipes that aren't focused on counting calories but instead focused on keeping you full.

By making sure your first two meals of the day are filling, you can eat whatever you'd normally have for dinner, and the weight still falls off (even if you're not exercising). When you're no longer hungry, you eat healthier portion sizes, and you stop snacking. Your food noise fades away and, as a result, so does your excess weight.

If you're tired of tracking meals, counting calories, restricting what you eat, and constantly being hungry, this brand-new approach is for you. Start your weight loss today with these 100 delicious, quick and easy recipes:

• Choc-Cherry Overnight Oats
• Spectacular Shakshuka
• Mexican Chicken Salad
• Chorizo Potato Bake
• Chicken Pesto Pasta

The unputdownable new domestic thriller from the bestselling author of THE CLEANER, about a woman accused of murdering her lover.

Rafe seems like your perfect man – intelligent, charming, attractive. He also happens to be your boss. You’re too swept up to care for office gossip. In Rafe, you have found the one. You go back to his house one evening and falls asleep in his arms.

When you wake, you reach out for him. But something feels cold beside you…

Rafe is dead – murdered in bed as you lay next to him – and everyone is going to think you did it.

Secrets are stacking up like wine barrels in the heat.

And this year’s ferment? It’s definitely going sour.

Winfred and Sylvie are keeping one eye open for the menacing villager who knows too much and another on the dismal bank balance of their bookshop-café, The Novel Eatery. Their side-hustle isn’t exactly legal . . . and now someone knows their secret.

Just as the tension threatens to boil over, news breaks that a wine-themed reality TV show is coming to town. The villagers are in a froth of excitement, giving the two friends a momentary reprieve. But the cameras bring their own complications. Sylvie is convinced the
slick presenter is greasier than her freshest vetkoek, and Winnie nearly chokes on her Sauvignon Blanc when she hears that Skokiaan, the mampoer king, is suddenly bottling five-star wine.

Lifting the Lid is filled with sharp wit, layered characters, and a setting that simmers with charm and danger. In a village like Riviersvalleij, nothing stays buried forever.

When you picture retirement, what do you see?

Imagine the moment you crest the final hill of a long hike, cross the finish line of a race, or step back to admire a painting you’ve poured your heart into. That feeling – that deep sense of accomplishment and arrival – is what retirement can be.

But retirement isn’t one-size-fits-all. For some, it feels like stepping into a room with no clear purpose. For others, it’s the joyful culmination of a meaningful journey. Wherever you are on that spectrum, Your Retirement Sketchbook is here to help you shape what comes next.

This book is not a rigid plan – it’s a flexible, creative guide to help you explore your unique vision for retirement. Whether you’re thinking about location, timing, activities, finances, health, or relationships, you are invited to reflect, imagine, and evolve your plans over time.

Because retirement isn’t the end – it’s a new beginning. And your future deserves to be designed with intention.

Retirement planning experts Jamie Hopkins and Bonnie Treichel explore 125 essential concepts for your journey, leaving space for you to reflect and journal on each one. Whether you’re just starting to save or nearing the finish line, Your Retirement Sketchbook will inspire you to craft a plan that achieves your retirement goals and builds financial confidence along the way.

This isn’t a textbook; it’s a creative journey. Let’s start exploring.

A killer who cuts straight to the bone …

A CHILLING MURDER

When a convicted killer is released and later found brutally murdered, DI Henley and the Serial Crimes Unit are pulled into a deadly investigation with links to other recent attacks – all the victims are connected by the vicious signature left behind by the killer.

A KILLER LURKS

Henley and her team begin to connect the dots between the killings, and realise the murders are part of something more sinister. Each victim has been chosen with a deadly precision, their deaths carved out with a shocking cruelty.

THE HUNT IS ON …

As the rampage continues and the stakes are raised with each new attack, the case spirals into a terrifying hunt for a killer who is always one step ahead. Can Henley and the SCU outsmart a monster before they strike again?

When in doubt, call Dad.

Featuring flowcharts, illustrations and graphics, this guide will help you master every aspect of being a Dad and make time for what really matters… after all that thermostat isn’t going to obsess over itself.

With simple steps to help you construct the perfect dad joke, a scientific formula to determine which dance moves will embarrass your children the most and a chart to establish the perfect (read: useless) fact for any occasion, this is the ultimate guide to being a dad.

Learn how to:

• Figure out the perfect hobby for you: is it golf, fishing, or growing vegetables?
• Collect thousands of old cables and out-of-date DIY magazines.
• Spend more time in the shed than in your own house.
• Master the mindful art of packing luggage into any car boot.
• Perfectly pair your socks and sandals.
• And more!

She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead?

When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's no accident - even if the case needs a good edit.

The village is strangely uneventful. The suspects are suspiciously normal. The leads quickly turn into dead ends… But when Annie's final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

This can't be a coincidence. Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother's crime fiction, it's that there's no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long…

From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writer is a funny, mind-bending mystery that will stay with you long after the final page.