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Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence.
Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it?
That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the truth, so you can make an informed decision about your life and your body … mic drop.’
For too long, women have had to keep quiet about the menopause – its onset, its symptoms, its treatments – and what it means for us. Menopausing will build an empowered, supportive community to break this terrible silence once and for all. By exploring and explaining the science, debunking damaging myths, and smashing the taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, this book will equip women to make the most informed decisions about their health… and their lives.
Menopausing will also celebrate the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood, and talk openly and positively about menopause.
No more scaremongering: just evidence-based info
No shame: real women, real menopause stories, real empathy, real community
Honest, no-holds-barred advice: Dry vagina? Zero sex drive? Hair loss? We’ve got it covered
The start of a movement: to get everyone talking about the menopause in every home, GP surgery and workspace

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence.
Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how…

"There are three doors that I may show you. You will find a different kind of power behind each one..."

Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A TYGER.

And the tyger is in danger.

Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help, but it isn't just the tyger's life at stake. Their whole world is on the verge of destruction. Can they learn to use their powers before it's too late?

"There are three doors that I may show you. You will find a different kind of power behind each one..."

Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A…

Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief ) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers—perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers , The Marvellers , and Rick Riordan!

Onyeka has a lot of hair­—the kind that makes strangers stop in the street and her peers whisper behind her back. At least she has Cheyenne, her best friend, who couldn’t care less what other people think. Still, Onyeka has always felt insecure about her vibrant curls…until the day Cheyenne almost drowns and Onyeka’s hair takes on a life of its own, inexplicably pulling Cheyenne from the water.

At home, Onyeka’s mother tells her the shocking Onyeka’s psychokinetic powers make her a Solari, one of a secret group of people with superpowers unique to Nigeria. Her mother quickly whisks her off to the Academy of the Sun, a school in Nigeria where Solari are trained. But Onyeka and her new friends at the academy soon have to put their powers to the test as they find themselves embroiled in a momentous battle between truth and lies…

Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief ) middle grade…

In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls.

It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax?

Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming.

Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident.

Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever—one of them receives a call, and the other doesn’t. Though neither boy is certain how the day will end, they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking.

Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest.

In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their…

The story follows Skander Smith, who is training to become a unicorn rider when the world’s most powerful unicorn is stolen.

The series opens with Steadman explaining: “Unicorns don’t belong in fairytales; they belong in nightmares.”

Publishing director Ali Douglas of Simon & Schuster, who won the bidding war, said the “instant, seething excitement” surrounding the series was “unlike anything I’ve experienced before”.

The story follows Skander Smith, who is training to become a unicorn rider when the world’s most powerful unicorn is stolen.

The series opens with Steadman explaining:…

Packed with doodles and cartoons, here is the diary of Loki as he’s trapped on earth as a petulant eleven-year-old—and even worse, annoying thunder god Thor is there, too.

After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he can return to Asgard. If he can’t? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. Rude! To keep track of Loki’s progress, King Odin (a bossy poo-poo head) gives him this magical diary in which Loki is forced to confess the truth, even when that truth is as ugly as a naked mole rat. To make matters worse, Loki has to put up with an eleven-year-old Thor tagging along and making him look bad. Loki is not even allowed to use his awesome godly powers! As Loki suffers the misery of school lunch, discovers the magic of internet videos, and keeps watch for frost giant spies, will he finally learn to tell good from bad, trust from tricks, and friends from enemies? Louie Stowell’s witty text and hysterical drawings will keep readers in stitches from start to finish.

Packed with doodles and cartoons, here is the diary of Loki as he’s trapped on earth as a petulant eleven-year-old—and even worse, annoying thunder god Thor is there, too.…

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.
There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.
As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If…

Все боятся Элизабет Зотт. Кто-то — ее ума, кто-то — остро заточенного карандаша, который она носит в прическе, а кто-то — четырнадцатидюймового ножа из ее сумочки (ведь каждый уважающий себя кулинар пользуется только своими собственными ножами). Причудливый зигзаг судьбы привел ее из Научно-исследовательского института Гастингса, где она мечтала заниматься абиогенезом (теорией возникновения жизни из неорганических веществ), на телевидение, где она ведет самую популярную в стране кулинарную передачу «Ужин в шесть». «Кулинария — это химия, — говорит она. — А химия — это жизнь. Она дает нам возможность изменить все, включая себя». Тем временем ее пятилетняя дочь Мадлен, растущая под присмотром минно-розыскного пса по кличке Шесть-Тридцать, пытается найти в школьной библиотеке Набокова и Нормана Мейлера, а также выстроить родословное древо, на котором должно найтись место и без пяти минут нобелевскому лауреату по химии Кальвину Эвансу, и фее-крестной, и деду в полосатой тюремной робе, и бабке, укрывшейся от налоговой полиции в Бразилии...

Все боятся Элизабет Зотт. Кто-то — ее ума, кто-то — остро заточенного карандаша, который она носит в прическе, а кто-то — четырнадцатидюймового ножа из ее сумочки (ведь каждый…

Однажды штормовой ночью 1928 года на берег Британского Канала выбрасывает огромного кита. По закону тело животного принадлежит королю, но у двенадцатилетней Кристабель другие планы. Вместе с братом, сестрой и несколькими домочадцами она организует театр в гигантском остове кита. Там она может скрыться от никчемных приемных родителей и их бестолковых воспитательных затей.

Но Кристабель даже не подозревает, какую роль сыграет в ее жизни этот детский импровизированный театр, когда через десять лет она и ее младший брат окажутся в самом сердце оккупированной нацистами Франции в качестве тайных агентов британской короны.

Однажды штормовой ночью 1928 года на берег Британского Канала выбрасывает огромного кита. По закону тело животного принадлежит королю, но у двенадцатилетней Кристабель другие…

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of “situationships”, players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as “The Wastemen of Whitewell,” in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink.
They’re soon embroiled in a fake relationship to try and salvage their reputations and save their futures. Kiki has never surrendered her heart before, and a player like Malakai won’t be the one to change that, no matter how charming he is or how electric their connection feels. But surprisingly entertaining study sessions and intimate, late-night talks at old-fashioned diners force Kiki to look beyond her own presumptions. Is she ready to open herself up to something deeper?

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar,…

Welcome to The Rabbit Hutch.

An online obituary writer. A young mother with a secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents. Separated by the thin walls of The Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the run-down Indiana town of Vacca Vale, these individual lives unfold.

But Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, she spends her hours reading Dante and dreaming about becoming a female mystic.

Until, that is, three sweltering days in July culminate in an act of violence that will change everything, and finally offer her a chance to escape. Savage and hilarious, The Rabbit Hutch is a piercing look at the power structures that shape us, and the tale of a young woman with irrepressible strength.

Welcome to The Rabbit Hutch.

An online obituary writer. A young mother with a secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents. Separated by the thin walls of The Rabbit…

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish slice.'

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: The Satsuma Complex. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers.

And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life…

A page-turning story with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Satsuma Complex is the brilliantly funny first novel by bestselling author and comedian Bob Mortimer.

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing…

Вавилон — престижный Королевский институт переводов Оксфордского университета — является мировым центром не только переводов, но и магии. Именно здесь зачаровывают серебряные слитки, позволяющие открыть потерянные при переводе смыслы. Такая уникальная сила наделила Британскую империю невиданной властью, а исследование Вавилона в области переводов и иностранных языков позволила развивать масштабную внешнюю политику.

Робин Свифт потратил многие годы на изучение языков, чтобы поступить в Королевский институт. Учеба в Оксфорде для него — это утопия, наполненная знаниями. Однако познакомившись с тайным обществом «Гермес» и поняв, какой властью обладают эти знания, Робин приходит к выводу, что служение Вавилону означает служение Империи. Теперь он стоит перед выбором…

Но можно ли изменить могущественные институты изнутри без насилия, или революция всегда требует жертв?

Вавилон — престижный Королевский институт переводов Оксфордского университета — является мировым центром не только переводов, но и магии. Именно здесь зачаровывают серебряные…

У Ясмин и Джо идеальная жизнь: молодые, влюбленные, счастливые, они только что закончили учебу и делают первые шаги к головокружительной врачебной карьере. Полным ходом идет планирование свадьбы. Осталась сущая мелочь — познакомить родителей. И вот тут идеальная картинка дает сбой.

Сказать, что их семьи разные — ничего не сказать. Мать Джо ярая феминистка, а родители Ясмин глубоко религиозные мусульмане. Казалось бы, разве это проблема в современном прогрессивном обществе? В теории нет, но жизнь плевать хотела на теорию.

Сможет ли молодость, амбициозность и влюбленность пережить столкновение двух семей? Смогут ли Ясмин и Джо, несмотря на осуждение и внутренние страхи, заново обрести друг друга и собственное "я"?

У Ясмин и Джо идеальная жизнь: молодые, влюбленные, счастливые, они только что закончили учебу и делают первые шаги к головокружительной врачебной карьере. Полным ходом идет…

The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.

When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge—on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude.

Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman—injured by a powerful man—is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Delving into the origins of this mythic tale, Haynes revitalizes and reconstructs Medusa’s story with her passion and fierce wit, offering a timely retelling of this classic myth that speaks to us today.

The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan…

Главный герой книги — подросток Чарли Рид, который после смерти своего друга, угрюмого отшельника Говарда Боудитча, получает в наследство кассету с записанной на неё странной историей. Он узнаёт о существовании портала в другой мир.

Главный герой книги — подросток Чарли Рид, который после смерти своего друга, угрюмого отшельника Говарда Боудитча, получает в наследство кассету с записанной на неё странной…

Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf.
Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate her appears before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?
As Lucrezia sits in uncomfortable finery for the painting which is to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferrarese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, her future hangs entirely in the balance.

Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings.…

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men.

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—and they should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.

Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart’s first novel…

Когда-то Эдит Твайфорд была всемирно известной детской писательницей. Но сегодня единственное, что с ней ассоциируется, — это слухи о некоем таинственном коде. Говорят, в каждой ее книге спрятана часть зашифрованных подсказок, но никто не знает, куда они ведут…

Сорок лет назад Стивен Смит нашел одну из книг Эдит Твайфорд со странными пометками и примечаниями. Он отнес ее своей учительнице, мисс Страль, которая была уверена, что пометки — ключ к разгадке головоломки. Внезапно мисс Страль загадочно исчезла, и Стив до сих пор не знает, жива ли она или ее убили… Теперь, выйдя из тюрьмы, он твердо намерен выяснить, что случилось в тот день и связано ли это с кодом.

Но Стив не единственный, кто идет по следу. Код Твайфорд таит секреты, ради которых многие готовы пойти на все. За разгадкой этой тайны столетия ведется настоящая гонка. Получится ли у вас раскрыть ее первыми?

Когда-то Эдит Твайфорд была всемирно известной детской писательницей. Но сегодня единственное, что с ней ассоциируется, — это слухи о некоем таинственном коде. Говорят, в каждой…

Джесс решает навестить своего брата Бена, надеясь, что каникулы в городе мечты помогут ей выбраться из передряг. Но, прибыв в Париж, она обнаруживает пустую квартиру: ее брат пропал. Джесс сразу подозревает неладное и, в надежде разобраться в случившемся, пытается свести знакомство с соседями Бена. Возможно, им что-то известно?

Но за закрытыми дверями таится слишком много секретов. Кажется, все поголовно что-то скрывают.

Этот дом как муравейник, разворошишь его, и тебе не поздоровится. Но, быть может, если разгадать, кому и какая отведена роль, удастся докопаться до правды.

Джесс решает навестить своего брата Бена, надеясь, что каникулы в городе мечты помогут ей выбраться из передряг. Но, прибыв в Париж, она обнаруживает пустую квартиру: ее брат…

Нераскрытое дело десятилетней давности — звучит как вызов для Клуба убийств по четвергам! А если добавить, что исчезнувшую Бетани Уэйтс, восходящую звезду местного телевидения, так и не обнаружили, то получится загадка, мимо которой Элизабет, Джойс, Ибрагим и Рон просто не могут пройти.

Успешно начавшиеся поиски омрачает внезапное появление врага Элизабет, который ставит ей весьма строгий ультиматум: убить или быть убитой. Пока Элизабет борется со своей совестью (и пистолетом), остальные участники Клуба и их новые знакомые (включая телезвезду, специалиста по отмыванию денег и бывшего полковника КГБ) разгадывают новую тайну. Но успеет ли компания найти ответы и спасти Элизабет, до того как убийца нанесет роковой удар?

Нераскрытое дело десятилетней давности — звучит как вызов для Клуба убийств по четвергам! А если добавить, что исчезнувшую Бетани Уэйтс, восходящую звезду местного телевидения,…

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.

And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.

As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly…

Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? . . . Discover the most talked about thriller of the year
It's late. You're waiting up for your son.
Then you spot him: he's with someone. And - you can't believe what you see - your funny, happy teenage boy stabs this stranger.
You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your son is charged with murder. His future is lost.
That night you fall asleep in despair. But when you wake . . . it is yesterday. The day before the murder.
Somewhere in the past lie the answers - a reason for this crime.
And your only chance to stop it . . .

Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? . . . Discover the most talked about thriller of the year
It's late. You're waiting up for your son.
Then you…

When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan doesn’t think much of it—except, that is, for the small matter of it having been his wife who happened to find her body. Then another body turns up amongst the sand dunes at the base of the mighty castle fortress, and he decides it can’t be a coincidence…

Meanwhile, after a recent revelation about her sister, DC Melanie Yates’ quest to avenge her death is becoming an obsession—much to the concern of those around her. With a new DCS to contend with and hundreds of cold case files to sift through, the chances of uncovering a dormant killer seem unlikely. But as Melanie delves deeper into the secrets of the past to uncover the truth, she soon realises it lies much closer to home…

Murder and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunnit, set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape.

When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan doesn’t think much of it—except, that is, for the small matter of it having…