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<strong>The Instant #1 <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller</strong> <strong>The Global #1 Bestseller</strong> <br/><br/>After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. <br/><br/>Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top <em>Billboard</em> charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. <br/><br/>She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist. <br/><br/>As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. <br/><br/>With her trademark honesty and humor<em>, Cher: The Memoir</em> traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. <br/><br/><em>Cher: The Memoir, Part One</em> follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono-and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart. <br/><br/><em>Cher: The Memoir</em> reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.

<b>An explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American political history: Joe Biden's decision to run for reelection despite mounting evidence of his decline, and his team's increasingly desperate efforts to hide it.</b><br/><br/><i>In Greek tragedy, the protagonist's effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. In 2024, American politics became a Greek tragedy.</i><br/><br/>Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump term. He, his family and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again that they lied to themselves, allies and the public about his condition and limitations. At his debate with Trump on 28 June 2024, the consequences of that deception were exposed - all but dooming the Democrats to defeat later that year.<br/><br/>Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Here, two of America's best-respected political journalists take us behind closed doors to reveal the extent of Biden's decline and who knew about it, from White House staffers to senators to Hollywood celebrities. They paint President Biden's decision to run for re-election as shockingly narcissistic, delusional and reckless - and the wider cover-up as an act of unprecedented public deception. Rarely has hubris met nemesis so explosively.<br/><br/>The story the authors tell raises fundamental issues of accountability and responsibility that will endure for decades. In the name of defeating what they called an existential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle ensured it, marking the beginning of a remarkable campaign of denial and gaslighting against the American public. His decision to run again was the original sin of his precedency - the moment that led directly to Donald Trump's return to power and all that has come since.

<b>FROM THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>THE ESCAPE ARTIST</i></b><br/><br/>'<b>Magnificent</b> . . . Important and impressive' <br/><i><b>DAILY TELEGRAPH</b></i><br/><br/>'<b>Astonishing </b>. . . Freedland is <b>a master</b>'<br/><b>MICK HERRON</b><br/><br/>'<b>R</b><b>emarkable </b>. . . This is how the best history books will be written in the future'<br/><b>ANDREW ROBERTS</b><br/><br/>'Excellent . . . <b>Perfect reading for this moment</b>'<br/><b>ANNE APPLEBAUM</b><br/><br/>'<b>Utterly gripping</b>, brilliantly researched and written'<br/><b>ANTHONY HOROWITZ</b><br/><br/>'<b>Compelling</b>'<br/><b>MAX HASTINGS, <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br/><br/><i>'</i>Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving . . . <b>Not to be missed</b>'<br/><b>DAVID McCLOSKEY</b><br/><br/>'<b>Totally gripping </b>and timely'<br/><b>JONATHAN DIMBLEBY</b><br/><b><br/>When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.</b><br/><br/><b>Berlin, 1943. </b>A group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo - revealing their secret to the Nazis' most ruthless detective.<br/><br/>They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador's widow and a pioneering headmistress. Meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the Fuhrer's rule, what unites them is a shared loathing of the Nazis, a refusal to bow to Hitler and the courage to perform perilous acts of resistance. Or so they believe.<br/><br/>How did a group of brave, principled rebels, who had successfully defied Adolf Hitler for more than a decade, come to fall into such a lethal trap? And who betrayed them?<br/><br/>Undone from within and pursued to near-destruction by one of the Reich's cruellest men, they showed a heroism that raises a question with new urgency for our time: what kind of person does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny?

Marvel Entertainment was a struggling toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. But what accounts for its stunning rise? <br/><br/>In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As they delve into the studio's key moments - from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man to the negotiations over Disney's acquisition of Marvel to studio head Kevin Feige's embrace of streaming TV - the authors demonstrate that the genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood's old studio system. Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full - and an essential, effervescent account of popular culture.

<i>'Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun sets, night begins'</i><br/><br/>Danger lurks in the dead of night. In a world in which rumour is rife and vampires roam, who can you trust? Written during the notorious gathering that produced Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i>, John Polidori's story 'The Vampyre' travels across countries, twists and turns through treacherous forests, and reveals the dangers of staying out after dark. It is accompanied here by two other classic tales of the genre.

Create your own fabulous and tack-tastic outfits time and time again with the world's first Eurovision Song Contest Dress-up Sticker Book.

The century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, vying for supremacy, launch headfirst into what will become the final battle. Leading the Midland forces are the Band of the Hawk, lead by the charismatic Griffith, with the fearless Guts as his trusted champion. But should the Hawks triumph again on the battlefield, the war with Chuder may end, but the secret war within Midland may begin as those who seek to rise within the court see the ambitious Griffith as an obstacle to obtaining power. And nothing is more formidable than an enemy unseen!