Empire in Black and GoldAdrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Children of Time, brings you an epic fantasy series of war and empire. In this first volume, an ancient empire sets its sights on conquering its allies, threatening decades of peace. But only one man sees war is coming.

Luckily for the children

Simone de Beauvoir and Nan Shepherd

covering areas of emerging importance such as weight stigma

is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius

How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her

Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home

sending and displaying The Wild Cards'Breathtaking and magical

she must triumph in a battle of wits with a dangerously clever adversary

He became the first person from his school to go to Oxford University and there he found the freedom to come out to his friends

'The Age of Anxiety' deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze

at the age of 80

to being offered free gifts after an award ceremony