When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away.He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . . A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely 'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary Wellesley A thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic act – or even legal at all? Is it right that you can pay more for ‘VIP’ egg donors – and to view their photos? How much, if anything, should breastmilk cost – and who should be allowed to buy it? The global fertility industry is rapidly growing, hugely profitable and morally complex. This an industry where one person’s biological bad luck can be another person’s financial gain. From egg freezing to black-market breastmilk, the maternal body has never been more commodified, yet the ethical, emotional and economic implications are rarely considered. Through a combination of undercover reporting and detailed first-hand accounts – including a surrogate of 12 children, an international embryo courier and a man who buys breastmilk for his IBS – Alev Scott exposes how the IVF, surrogacy and milk industries operate around the world and who is profiting. In doing so, she considers the blurred line between exploitation and empowerment. Who should make money from the maternal only the women themselves, anyone or no one? Timely, thought-provoking and compelling, Cash Cow is an unmissable investigation into how desire, desperation and commerce intersect, and the impact the fertility industry has on individuals.

The unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter. Eriko really wouldn't mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging … Eriko's life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko’s posts about eating convenience store food and her untidy home are the opposite of the typical Japanese housewife’s manicured lifestyle. When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant and befriends her, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion. But as Eriko’s obsession with Shoko deepens, her increasingly possessive behaviour starts to raise suspicion. As Eriko’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel, how far will she go to hold on to the best friend that she’s ever had? Beautifully translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is a thrilling and unsettling story of the line between friendship and dangerous obsession. A delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan, Hooked brings together all the ingredients for which Asako Yuzuki is so adored.

Hachi et Nana, les deux félins inoubliables des Mémoires d’un chat, sont de retour ! Dans ce nouveau recueil, le lecteur apprendra que Nana et son maître Satoru ont rendu visite à une dernière personne avant leurs bouleversants adieux. Quant à Hachi, dont Satoru avait été séparé dans l’enfance suite à un tragique accident, il a été recueilli par une chaleureuse famille de quatre enfants. Mais Satoru et lui finiront-ils un jour par se retrouver ? Au fil de sept contes drolatiques et touchants sur les chats, Hiro Arikawa nous embarque dans un nouveau périple pittoresque et émouvant à travers le Japon. Oscillant entre la tendresse et l’humour, les joies et les peines, ses histoires ont la douceur et la magie des films des studios Ghibli.

Julie fête allègrement ses cinquante ans au bar en bas de chez elle, réunit ses amis et toute sa famille, chante Dalida à tue-tête puis rentre se coucher, joyeuse et un peu ivre… Mais le réveil est cruel.Bientôt, en effet, la même semaine pluvieuse de septembre, ses deux enfants quittent subitement l’appartement familial pour partir étudier. Elle est effondrée. Et c’est le moment que sa gynécologue choisit pour lui parler de ménopause. Depuis longtemps disparues, les crises d’angoisse ne tardent pas à revenir, avec une intensité inédite. Que se passe-t-il ? Pourquoi ne parvient-elle pas à chasser le sentiment que sa vie est finie ?Elle décide d’utiliser ses armes de romancière et d’imaginer d’autres vies que la sienne. Mais à chaque femme dont elle invente l’histoire, Julie bloque au même endroit, à la cinquantaine, quand la maison se vide. Là, tout s’arrête. Même la fiction lui échappe. Et les questions fusent. Pourquoi ne raconte-t-on jamais les femmes ménopausées ? Comment la société les considère-t-elles, une fois leur rôle de mère accompli ? Personne ne semble la comprendre lorsqu’elle avoue être bouleversée par le départ de ses enfants, pourquoi ? La femme parfaite doit-elle décidément afficher un bonheur béat à chaque tournant de son existence ?Dans ce récit mêlé de fiction, vif, plein d’humour, sans amertume, Julie Bonnie braque un projecteur sensible sur celles que la société refuse de voir et de représenter.

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read—So You Can Be the Parent Your Kids DeserveBecause our kids can feel what we don't heal.Are you determined to parent differently than you were raised? Ready to break cycles, heal old wounds, and give your children the emotionally close relationship you always wanted? This is your roadmap.Why This Book?Written by licensed therapist and educator Eli HarwoodPractical, no-nonsense guidance for parents and parents-to-beAlphabetically organized for quick, targeted help—flip to the growth area you need, when you need itInside, You’ll Discover How to Heal Complicated emotional states like anger, anxiety, body image struggles, and jealousyInsecure habits such as people-pleasing, toxic comparison, blaming, and denialThe lingering effects of insecurity or trauma from your own childhoodWhat You’ll Tools to heal yourself—so your children don’t have to carry your painStrategies to build a secure, emotionally close bond with your kidsConfidence to become the parent you wish you’d hadGive your children the invaluable gift of an emotionally secure parent. Start your healing journey today—for them, and for you.

Julie fête allègrement ses cinquante ans au bar en bas de chez elle, réunit ses amis et toute sa famille, chante Dalida à tue-tête puis rentre se coucher, joyeuse et un peu ivre… Mais le réveil est cruel.Bientôt, en effet, la même semaine pluvieuse de septembre, ses deux enfants quittent subitement l’appartement familial pour partir étudier. Elle est effondrée. Et c’est le moment que sa gynécologue choisit pour lui parler de ménopause. Depuis longtemps disparues, les crises d’angoisse ne tardent pas à revenir, avec une intensité inédite. Que se passe-t-il ? Pourquoi ne parvient-elle pas à chasser le sentiment que sa vie est finie ?Elle décide d’utiliser ses armes de romancière et d’imaginer d’autres vies que la sienne. Mais à chaque femme dont elle invente l’histoire, Julie bloque au même endroit, à la cinquantaine, quand la maison se vide. Là, tout s’arrête. Même la fiction lui échappe. Et les questions fusent. Pourquoi ne raconte-t-on jamais les femmes ménopausées ? Comment la société les considère-t-elles, une fois leur rôle de mère accompli ? Personne ne semble la comprendre lorsqu’elle avoue être bouleversée par le départ de ses enfants, pourquoi ? La femme parfaite doit-elle décidément afficher un bonheur béat à chaque tournant de son existence ?Dans ce récit mêlé de fiction, vif, plein d’humour, sans amertume, Julie Bonnie braque un projecteur sensible sur celles que la société refuse de voir et de représenter.

Un changement dans la vie de Satoru fait qu'il doit se séparer de Nana, son chat adoré. Débute alors une série de voyages chez des amis d’enfance, aux quatre coins du Japon, pour lui trouver un nouveau foyer. Mais le rusé matou, narrateur de ce savoureux roman, ne l’entend pas de cette oreille : il fera tout pour rester avec Satoru et prolonger l’aventure.

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better. Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.

The Last Vigilant begins an unmissable new epic fantasy series, where unforgettable characters, intricate conspiracies and ancient magic collideShunned by the soldiers he commands, haunted by past tragedies, Sargent Holt Hawley is a broken man. But the child of a powerful ally has gone missing, and war between once peaceful nations is on the horizon. So, he and his squad have been sent to find a the Vigilant. They are a rumored last survivor of an ancient order capable of performing acts of magic, and they've been lost to the world for decades. No one truly expects Hawley to succeed.When he is forced to abandon his men, he stumbles upon a woman who claims to be the Last Vigilant. Enelda Drake is wizened and out of practice, and she seems a far cry from the heroes of legend. But they will need her powers, and each other, to survive. For nothing in the town of Scarfell is as it seems. Corrupt soldiers and calculating politicians thwart their efforts at every turn.And there are dark whispers on the wind threatening the arrival of an ancient and powerful enemy. The Last Vigilant is not the only myth returning from the dead.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” ( The New York Times ) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”— The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters. De Gerlache sailed on, and soon the Belgica was stuck fast in the icy hold of the Bellingshausen Sea. When the sun set on the magnificent polar landscape one last time, the ship’s occupants were condemned to months of endless night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness and besieged by monotony, they descended into madness. In Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton unfolds an epic story of adventure and horror for the ages. As the Belgica’s men teetered on the brink, de Gerlache relied increasingly on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in the expedition’s lone American, Dr. Frederick Cook—half genius, half con man—whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship’s first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, even in his youth the storybook picture of a sailor. Together, they would plan a last-ditch, nearly certain-to-fail escape from the ice—one that would either etch their names in history or doom them to a terrible fate at the ocean’s bottom. Drawing on the diaries and journals of the Belgica’s crew and with exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, Sancton brings novelistic flair to a story of human extremes, one so remarkable that even today NASA studies it for research on isolation for future missions to Mars. Equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror, Madhouse at the End of the Earth is an unforgettable journey into the deep.

Un changement dans la vie de Satoru fait qu'il doit se séparer de Nana, son chat adoré. Débute alors une série de voyages chez des amis d’enfance, aux quatre coins du Japon, pour lui trouver un nouveau foyer. Mais le rusé matou, narrateur de ce savoureux roman, ne l’entend pas de cette oreille : il fera tout pour rester avec Satoru et prolonger l’aventure.