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In Every Last Fish, Rose George takes us inside the vast legal industries that support our appetite for fish fingers and salmon sandwiches, and the equally colossal illegal fishing trade whose practices and standards are unmonitored and often dangerous. It introduces us to the men (and it is mostly men) who fish, the women (and it is mostly women) who process the flesh and strive to keep fishing communities afloat. It takes us from Alaska to Senegal, via Scotland, Norway, and Massachusetts, and from the nets on the surface to the murky depths of the sea bed.

'An absolute banger of a novel' LOUISE O'NEILL 'A funny, messy and satirical delight' STYLIST 'Whip-smart yet surprisingly tender' JENNIE GODFREY 'Vanity Fair meets The Kardashians' SARRA MANNING 'Snappy, witty and sharply observed' DAILY MAIL "You don't want to go down in history as his mistake...

Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a life-saver, and can transmit deadly infections. It is medicine, and a commodity dearer than oil. Each of us has nine to 12 pints of it, yet many don’t know their own blood type. For all its ubiqutousness, menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event. In Nine Pints, Rose George takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to a cutting-edge trauma ward. 

Comedian and radio personality George Bettinger talked with Emmy-winning actress-comedienne Lilly Tomlin ( Laugh-In) just after she received her Kennedy Center Honors Award. Tomlin, who currently stars opposite Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston in the hit Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, is just one of 10 rare and unedited celebrity interviews in this collection.

In the second book of a bestselling graphic novel series that explores family, friendship, and change, a former city kid is finally adjusting to life on a farm with two brand-new stepsisters when she faces an even bigger challenge: middle school. "Like [Raina] Telgemeier, [Lucy] Knisley has a...

After a perfidious operation that almost costed him his life, Troy Levi, a sagacious agent for the FBI, is granted a second chance, albeit as a cyborg for the agency's Virtual Division. However, this action does not come without a price. He strives relentlessly to find grounding in a contemporary society that judges him and many others of his kind for who they are. A short story collection that will leave many listeners fluctuating from hope to trepidation.