Mother Tongue - The English Language

Bill Bryson

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t...

Seven Deadly Sins

Corey Taylor

'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so. 1995 was a full 365-day year of drinking, fucking, lying, raging and exploration for me - not a dull one in the bunch. It was a time of self-shit: self-importance, self-absorpti...

Natural History: A Selection

Pliny the Elder

Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d...

Arifureta: from Commonplace to World's Strongest (Light Novel)(#2)

Ryo Shirakome; Takaya-ki (Illustrator)

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE The Great Orcus Labyrinth lies vanquished-Hajime and Yue return triumphant to the surface. Unfortunately, it's only the first step on a long journey back home to Earth, and there's no rest for the weary. A bunny girl named Shea Haulia appears, declaring that she has seen the future...

Ikuntji Textiles

Chrischona Schmidt (ed.)

Ikuntji Textiles outlines and explores the development of the Ikuntji Artists textiles designs, the female artists and their stories, and the collaborations that have taken place since the formation of the art centre. This full-colour publication gives an insight into Ikuntji Artists range of wearable a...

Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

Elise Hu

A cutting-edge journalistic expose of self-care consumerism, using the extreme case South Korea to both celebrate the astounding growth of K-Beauty and South Korean pop culture as a global export and examine the dark implications for women in a looks-obsessed patriarchy, in a debut that asks the questio...

My Ultramarine Sky

Nagisa Furuya

From the creator of My Summer of You comes a high school romance about two friends who've always been in the same class, but when a new school year separates them, they realize that their feelings for each other might run deeper than friendship... From their first year of middle school to their second y...