The New Confessions Boyd William Penguin Group

Meet John James Todd • Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' • Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond • Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate

The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories • William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is a collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the macabre, the humorous to the haunting. From the penetrating 'Memories of Youghal' to the bittersweet 'Bodily Secrets' and the elegiac 'Two More Gallants', here are masterpieces of insight, depth, drama and humanity, acutely rendered by a modern master

We've all heard the golden rule: eat less, exercise more and you'll lose weight. But what if it isn't that simple? • For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works • Debunking myths of about body and systematically explaining why dieting is counter-productive, this unflinching book investigates every aspect of nutrition: from the 'set weight point' that is unique to all of us, to good and bad fats, and from how genes impact our weight to how our hormones are affected after a diet ends • With a new chapter about the link between obesity and COVID-19, this incredible book will help you understand your body better than ever before

The award-winning, bestselling New York Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the market • Whether you're travelling to New York for a weekend break or a week's business, you'll find this fact-packed guide the perfect 24-hour companion in the city that never sleeps. Compact and light, it can be slipped into a pocket or bag and contains everything you need to get around and get the most out of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, day and night • Contents include: clear, illustrated colour street maps; subway and bus routes; articles on the history and architecture of the city; interesting walks, and essential listings of everything from shops, museums and galleries to theatres, restaurants and night clubs • For many years Michael Middleditch was chief cartographer at Geographia

Sara Tempest never expected to meet a man like Bernard • Charming and captivating, over the course of one hot summer he and Sara fall desperately in love • Without a second's thought, Sara moves into his beautiful home on the wind-battered cliffs of Hastings, ready for her new life to begin • But soon she begins to wonder if Bernard is all he seems • He's barely in touch with his children. Stifling reminders of his late wife appear everywhere Sara looks • And then comes Bernard's confession

"Признания Адриана Моула" - роман английской писательницы Сью Таунсенд • Адриан Моул - взрослый человек. По крайней мере, так написано в его паспорте. Но жизнь дома, прижимание к своему потертому плюшевому кролику "Пинки", работа разносчиком бумаг в "Лани" и тоска по любви всей его жизни, Пандоре, доказали ему, что взрослая жизнь - это не совсем то, чего он ожидал. И все же, не имея трудностей современной жизни, о чем тогда мог бы писать поэт-интеллектуал… • Книга на английском языке • Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected

"Новый атлас древней истории" иллюстрирует в хронологической серии карт эволюцию и перемещение рас в Европе, Средиземноморье и на Ближнем Востоке. С 50 000 г. до н.э. по четвертый век н.э. Это один из самых успешных исторических атласов из серии бестселлеров • Книга на английском языке • The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East. From 50,000 B.C. to the fourth century A.D., it is one of the most successful of the bestselling historical atlas series

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of reality • Now, a New Yorker journalist offers the definitive portrait of the adventurers leading the way to the stars. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut: from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere • The result is the most vivid exploration of an astronaut's inner life since Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff

In the twenty-first century, we increasingly push our daily routines into the night, carrying out work, exercise and our social lives long after dark. But we have forgotten that our bodies are governed by a 24-hour biological clock which guides us towards the best time to sleep, eat and think. New science has proven that living out of sync with this clock is not only disrupting our sleep, but leaving us more vulnerable to infection, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and mental illness • In Life Time, Professor Russell Foster shares his life's work, taking us on a fascinating and surprising journey through the science of our body clocks. Using his own studies, as well as insights from an international community of sleep scientists and biologists studying circadian rhythms, he illustrates the surprising effects the time of day can have on our health • - how a walk outside at dawn can ensure a better night's sleep • - how eating after sundown can affect our weight • - the extraordinary effects the time we take our medication can have on our risk of life-threatening conditions, such as strokes • In the modern world, we have neglected an essential part of our biology

Народная песня, один из величайших видов английского народного искусства, может быть болезненной, сатирической, эротической, драматической, печальной или забавной. Эта волшебная новая коллекция объединяет все классические народные песни, а также множество менее известных открытий, дополненных музыкой и комментариями об их первоисточниках и значении • Книга на английском языке • The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms • One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food • Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? • Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? • How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home? • These are just some of the ingredients of Gastrophysics, in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways, and reveals the importance of all the 'off-the-plate' elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the placing on the plate, the background music and much more. Whether dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience

From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter - the definitive book on the science of the microbiome and how unlocking its potential can protect our health, our immunity and our planet • Why are we living longer, but not happier? • The microbiome - our inner ecosystem of viruses, bacteria and other microbes - is critically important to our health and wellbeing. It is given to us by our mothers at birth, adapts with us as we age, influences our moods, determines how fast we run and even who we choose as a partner • Yet it is only now, as we are beginning to discover the microbiome's enormous potential, that we are realising it is in grave danger, being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets, the war on bugs and the industrialised world