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Brought to you by Puffin. From hilarious MEGA bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new story from the phenomenal Lottie Brooks series! Pack your bags, and put on your helmets, for Lottie’s latest hilarious diary! She’s off on a ONCE IN A LIFETIME skiing holiday - what could...

Do you have a creative idea you can’t stop thinking about—but don’t know how to fund it? Whether you’re an artist, writer, filmmaker, musician, or entrepreneur, The Ultimate Crowdfunding Launch Guide gives you a clear, step-by-step roadmap to successfully plan, launch, and fund your project using the power of crowdfunding. This beginner-friendly guide goes beyond theory. It shows you exactly how to turn your vision into a campaign that attracts attention, builds trust, and inspires people to support you.

Designing a tiny house doesn’t have to be complicated, expensive, or overwhelming. With the right planning, even the smallest footprint can become a comfortable, functional, and beautifully organized home.

Survive the Impossible explores how people think, decide, and endure when pushed beyond comfort and into uncertainty. Through powerful lessons drawn from extreme adventure and survival situations, this book reveals how calm thinking, awareness, and small decisions can make the difference between panic and progress. This is not a technical survival manual. It’s a mindset guide for handling pressure, uncertainty, and real-life challenges.

Burnout doesn’t always come from one big crisis—it builds quietly through daily pressure, constant mental load, and unnoticed emotional strain. The Burnout Reset Blueprint is a practical guide designed to help you identify hidden stress patterns, regain control of your energy, and restore balance in your everyday life. Instead of offering quick fixes, this book focuses on awareness, reflection, and sustainable habits that help you understand how stress actually works—and how to respond to it more effectively.

Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

The air is the first thing. For a solitary archivist on the fourth floor of a vast library, the world is not measured in sight or sound, but in scent. This is a life lived in the stacks, a world contained by the fire door and the heavy, metal-plated threshold. Inside, the air is honest. It is the dry, stable smell of paper fibers, acidic ink, and the sweet, vanilla-like decay of lignin. It is the smell of preservation, of time held still.

Glow Without the Grease: Mastering Skincare in the Summer Heat is your ultimate guide to achieving radiant, balanced skin even in the hottest, most humid conditions. Summer can be brutal on your skin. Excess oil, dehydration, clogged pores, and sun damage often leave you feeling frustrated and unsure of what actually works. This practical, science-backed guide cuts through the noise and gives you a clear, effective skincare strategy tailored to your unique skin type.

Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North. In the remote villages of Southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving - a test of courage and skill that not all survive. But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have made a pact. As they process the events of the spring, they will keep things platonic until the solstice. But can they resist when the crackling tension between them is enough to set the whole of Crescent City aflame? And they are not out of danger yet. Dragged into a rebel movement they want no part of, Bryce, Hunt and their friends find themselves pitted against the terrifying Asteri - whose notice they must avoid at all costs. But as they learn more about the rebel cause, they face a choice: stay silent while others are oppressed or fight.

Close the Gap to Lower Scores. The difference between your best and worst rounds isn't your swing —it's your mentality. Yet the basics of golf psychology are often misunderstood, leading to needless mistakes, higher scores, and inconsistent play. Just as you can’t build a reliable swing with a bad grip or poor alignment, you can’t build a reliable game on a warped perspective. You might pull off good shots, even good rounds, but faulty technique always catches up to you. The same is true mentally.

England, 1985: Sent back in time to the year he lost everything, Robbie James is determined to turn the tables on the man who stole his future. In 2024, Robbie James is a brilliant IT developer who has just created an AI so advanced it can improve itself without human help. The result? He’s engineered himself out of a job. The man handing him his cards is Toby Fleming, a lifelong thorn in his side. So when Robbie is offered the chance to travel back forty years in time, he’s eager to settle the score. In 1985, teenage Robbie finds himself back at Splat!

After Nancy Richards is sent to prison, her daughter Jeanie is placed in the care of Edna Baker, a respected figure in London’s East End. Under Edna’s roof, Jeanie should be safe. That changes when a corrupt copper threatens to send her to Laxville Children’s Home.

It seems like the perfect job. Great wages, accommodation provided and all located within the walls of Highwood Hall, a stunning stately home owned by the Howard family. Not many little girls dream of becoming a maid, but this is an opportunity for me to get back on my feet. And for me to revisit my past....

Book 4 of a Cozy Fantasy Series filled with love, laughter, epic fantasy, and a little melancholy. Beers & Beards balances epic fantasy & slice-of-life with charm aplenty and a charisma score high enough to make a bard blush. It doesn't matter if you like beer or not, this is set to fill your need for comforting stories.

I know I’m lucky. I have a stunning Cheltenham apartment and a charming weekend cottage in Devon. Chris, my partner, is kind and supportive. He loves me in spite of my scars—the result of a childhood incident I don’t talk about. Most of all, I love my job, helping young women with eating disorders. But I can’t help everyone, as I tell Kyle Stannard. Kyle was once a top male model—before he was left horrifically scarred in a random attack. Kyle thinks we’re the same, but I can’t help him with his problems. It’s not my field. Then creepy things start to happen.

CATO AND MACRO ARE ARMED TO THE HILT FOR THE EPIC 25TH ADVENTURE IN THE EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Twenty years have passed since the raw recruit Cato faced Centurion Macro on the training ground. Now scarred heroes of the Roman army's toughest conflicts...

The sky was a lie. The earth was a grave. And Kaelen Thorne just opened the door. For three hundred years, the citizens of Silo 1 believed the surface was a toxic hellscape. They lived in the subterranean dark, recycling the same air and fearing the "outside." Kaelen Thorne, a low-level structural analyst, thought he knew the rules: keep your head down, fix the pipes, and survive.

Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But when a scandal leads to the disbandment of his London based special squad, he finds himself out of a job. That is, until his cousin calls on him to investigate her husband’s high-profile death, and prove that it wasn’t a suicide. Clifford’s reluctant to get involved, but the more he digs, the more evidence he finds. With his ability to remember everything he's ever seen, he's the perfect person to untangle the layers of deceit.

The Augmented Learning Revolution explores how augmented reality (AR) is reshaping education by turning passive learning into immersive, interactive, and inventive experiences. From classrooms and training centers to remote and lifelong learning environments, AR is redefining how knowledge is delivered, understood, and retained. This forward-thinking guide reveals how educators, institutions, and innovators can harness AR to create engaging learning ecosystems that inspire curiosity and deepen understanding.