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Is Lady Juvelian at greater risk of dying at the hands of her father's political enemies... or of falling in love? Desperate to appear unavailable for marriage to the tyrannical Crown Prince Maximillian - the villain of her previous life - Juvelian has proposed a contract relationship with her father's rebellious protégé. At first glance, he's the perfect choice, but a veil of misunderstandings hides a dark truth that could challenge Juvelian's attempts to change her future. Meanwhile, political schemes and old grudges are moving in the shadows of the imperial court, and Juvelian's father, Duke Floyen, stands at the heart of them. As the crown prince seeks to solidify his power, the emperor tightens his hold over the duke. This volume collects episodes 32-48 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.

How the world's best actors communicate with gravitas - and how you can, too.'The theatre stars' voice guru' Daily MailActing is all about charisma. Whether you're an A-list star or an extra, when you're on stage you need to perform in a way that makes your audience listen.That stage presence is something we can all learn from. Every time you speak up in a meeting, recount an anecdote, or tell a joke, it's essential to communicate with gravitas.Jeannette Nelson knows a thing or two about gravitas. As Head of Voice at the National Theatre, she has spent three decades working with the world's leading actors - from Al Pacino to Benedict Cumberbatch to Juliette Binoche - teaching them to speak clearly and move confidently.Now, Nelson pulls back the curtain on the tricks that professional performers use to own the room. Starting with clear speech and good posture, before moving on to the art of rhetoric and overcoming stage fright, she outlines a holistic three-stage method to communicating with authority, authenticity and eloquence. Throughout, she peppers the book with stories of how world-renowned actors learnt to make themselves heard - and how you can, too.The result is a fascinating and eminently practical guide to the art of performance. If all the world's a stage, then this book will turn you into its lead actor.

**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**Anthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for his twelve-volume work A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME. These memoirs reveal Powell - the man and author - providing an insider's view of the British literary scene and social elite from the 1920s to the 1980s. In these pages Powell observes the obscenity trial sparked by Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed Wee Willie Winkie with 'more than his usual verve'. Throughout, Powell paints vivid portraits of his contemporaries, other authors including Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING is the abridged version of Anthony Powell's four volumes of memoir, originally published between 1976 and 1982.

Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget. Ellie didn't expect to fall in love while travelling in Europe. But she also didn't expect to meet a man like Ash. Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection - deep enough for them to plan to meet again in Madrid. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found. Six years later, the memory of Ash and their time together still burns deeply in Ellie's heart. She hopes that her dream job as a gardener on a grand estate in Wales will bring the fresh start she desperately needs. But when Ash unexpectedly crashes back into her life, Ellie is forced to question if the universe has other plans...

Maeve and Finn, co-hosts of the groundbreaking sex and relationships podcast Tell Me How You Really Feel, have just landed the deal of a lifetime.But the excitement of this new venture is dampened by one slight issue: Maeve and Finn absolutely hate each other.Cancelling the show isn't an option. And the pair must ensure their fake chemistry travels across the airways if they want to guarantee its success.They are surprised, however, when pretending to enjoy one another's company proves easier than expected.Can they listen to their own advice and finally find a way to move forward?

Get on the case with the best kids' detective club in town!Minerva Keen and co are ready to take on a hair-raising new lead. But when know-it-all Zoe joins the club to read mysteries instead of solving them, it seems their sleuthing days might be over. To make things worse, Minerva's favorite teacher, Ms Voyant, takes Zoe's side . . . which gets Minerva wondering what secrets they could be hiding. As she digs into one puzzle, new questions pop up. Such as: Why are Ms Voyant and Zoe so friendly? And where do Minerva's parents go on their mysterious 'business trips'?Minerva and her friends are divided over which mystery to untangle first. And without their greatest strength - each other - will this detective club be in over its head?

Never has a final year of high school had so many new beginnings. Seo Haebom had only just gotten used to having his friend-turned-distant-housemate, Jo Taesung, acknowledge his existence, but now it seems like they might actually be... friends again? As Taesung brings Haebom into his social circle, Haebom discovers not only how much he's missed his childhood playmate, but how much more fun high school can be if he has the confidence to stop being such a wallflower. But after so many years of a predictable - if lonely - life, Haebom now can't seem to stop his world from changing too quickly. Just as he begins to enjoy his new normal, Taesung starts acting like he might want to change their relationship yet again, this time to something more than friends. Volume 2 includes episodes 16-30 of the webcomic Cherry Blossoms After Winter.

This year's wedding season is coming to an end for flatmates Lexie and Scarlet. Scarlet sets Lexie one last challenge as part of their summer-long wedding bingo - to kiss the best man, Josh. But while Lexie is looking for Josh, she meets Chris. Their connection is instant, and they can't stop talking. As she runs inside to grab them Champagne, she finally finds Josh at the bar and connects with him too. Returning to Chris, he tells her in a matter of moments he's leaving the UK to go home to New York. They're reluctant to leave things where they are. The laughter, fun and conversation feels so real, so meant to be. So Chris makes a split-second decision and invites Lexie to go with him to New York, just for the weekend, just for a few days, just to see. With two men, and one moment to make a life-changing decision, what will Lexie decide?And what if fate has other ideas?PRAISE FOR ELLE COOK'A total delight. Achingly romantic, full of suspense and a beautiful cast of characters. This is going to be huge!' Laura Jane Williams'This is an uplifting romcom to warm you on these autumnal nights' Prima'Told with tenderness, humour and warmth' Holly Miller'A compelling modern love story brimming with emotion and heart' Fiona Gibson'One of the best books I've read this year. I was swept up in Tom and Abbie's story from the first page to the last' Emma Cooper'A heart-wrenching rollercoaster full of missed opportunities and tenderness. I was rooting for Tom and Abbie right from the start and was swept along by their exquisite will-they-won't-they love story' Caroline Khoury

The stunning sequel to The Crimson Crown, which follows Ayleth, a powerful witch and the very wickedest of all as she wrestles with love and betrayal.

We all want to flourish. We want to create harmony, well-being and joy in our lives and those around us. The question is, how?Daniel Coyle has spent the last six years researching and visiting 'holistic hotbeds': groups, teams, businesses, and communities which have, accidentally or on purpose, created deep, thriving relationships that generate high levels of shared success and well-being. From a small town in Vermont that has produced 11 Olympians over the past 40 years - where most of the Olympians return to live and work after their athletic careers are over - to a Michigan deli that accidentally grew into a $70 million business. And from a grassroots organization in an impoverished Kenyan settlement that has produced Ivy League students, to a successful multi-billion dollar company that functions like an extended family.Coyle discovered that all these groups flourish using three skills, which form the three parts of this book. In Skill 1 - The Surrendering - we'll learn about our brain's holistic-awareness system and how to use it to create connection and belonging. In Skill 2 - The Unleashing - we'll learn how creating small instabilities can ignite energy, ownership, and self-organizing action toward a shared horizon. In Skill 3 - The Deep Fun - we'll learn how audacious experiments can generate new versions of yourself and your group.The overarching idea is that flourishing is created by a matrix of quiet but powerful group interactions that create interdependence, energy and growth. Flourishing isn't a puzzle you solve alone; it's a set of living relationships that generate the shared capability to shape your future, together.

'Part of the joy of reading Powers over the years has been his capacity for revelation' Colson WhiteheadOn the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a plain white room that can become a jungle, a painting or a vast Byzantine cathedral. Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is fascinated by this cutting-edge technology.In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American teacher - Taimur Martin - is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room.What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common...'Spectacular... Riveting' New York Times

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann PatchettA wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory.After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken neurologist intent on using computers to model the human brain.Lentz involves the writer in an outlandish and irresistible project - to train a computing system by reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own age, sex, race and reason for existing.'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' New York Times

'Penetrating and splendidly written... Dazzling' New York TimesIn Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer.This same small town is home to Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston. Over the course of more than a century, it transforms into a powerful international corporation.Clare & Company's stunning growth reflects America's kaleidoscopic history, yet for Laura and her family, this wild success has profound and lasting consequences.

'A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with itself and the world, humanity and ecology... undoubtedly magnificent' The TimesOn a winter night, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.Shattered by her brother's behaviour, Karin contacts neuroscientist Dr Gerald Weber. But what Weber discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what really happened. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.