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Discover the Japanese secret to a long and happy life with the internationally bestselling guide to ikigai - 'a refreshingly simple recipe for happiness' (Stylist Magazine) The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason to jump out of bed each morning. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the...

'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world. St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis,...

When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was...

Robinson Crusoe discovers thousands of 'half-naked savages' having it large on Ibiza.James Bond is on a mission, as a 24-hour call-out plumber.'The young stable lad is a moody fellow,' say reviewers of Wuthering Heights in The Good Hotel Guide.Hans Christian Andersen gets into the subprime mortgage racket.Stephen King attempts a love story that...

Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter - brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic.The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who...

The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives.This is Linda's story.She's lucky. She knows that.It's what makes being unhappy even worse.Her friends advise taking medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less.A meeting with a politician, and ex-boyfriend, reawakens a side of her that she -...