Winner of the Sports Book of the Year 2018 this is the most definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best and with many dramatic new discoveries about his life and career. Chapter headings include Cassius Marcellus Clay, The Loudest Child, Phantom Punch, Exile, Martyr, The Five Million Dollar Match, Ali v. Frazier and Getting Old. When the frail, trembling figure of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, three billion people were once again gripped by the story of the world's most famous sporting icon. The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see. Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking biography takes us not only inside the ring for some of the most famous bouts in boxing history, but also to find out about Ali's personal life, finances, faith and the moments when the first signs of his physical decline began to show. Ali was a symbol of freedom and courage, a hero to many, but this is also a very personal story of a warrior who vanquished every opponent, but was finally brought down by his own stubborn refusal to quit. A richly researched, sympathetic and unsparing portrait of a controversial figure, the familiar is glanced from a new perspective in Eig's fluent prose. 24 pages of black and white photos at the end, 623pp in softback.

Rules of the game, skills and tactics, here is a guide to bridge, its history, playing on the computer, how to bid, card play and defence and all with 700 spectacular colour illustrations. Bridge has been one of the world's most popular games of the century and is well respected as a strategic game that can be as competitive and technical or as fun and sociable as the players decide. For players of all levels this essential source of reference explains sample deals, tips and professional strategies for intermediate and high-level players and a history of the great champions and famous players of the past from all over the world such as Ely Culbertson, Omar Sharif, Terence Reese, Zia Mahmood and Gabriel Chagas. These players' incredible skills and contributions to the game are described alongside entertaining anecdotes and photographs to delight all bridge enthusiasts. Promoting trump tricks in defence, unblocking honours in defence, counting declarer's points, clues from the bidding, when to delay drawing trumps, safety plays in a single suit, control-showing cue-bids, planning a suit contractor, the hold-up play, completing the auction online and more. This is a spectacular hardback of 256 large glossy pages, 700 superb colour photos and diagrams and tips from Charles Goren, Rixi Markus and Benito Garozzo.

'Work less, create more: how to make your side hustle work for you' this is a Sunday Times bestseller. The world of work is changing, so how do you keep up? The Internet and smartphones give you the ability to make money on your own terms, when and where you want, but where do you start? If you have been itching to convert your craft into a career or your hobby into a start up, award winning blogger Emma Gannon teaches us that it doesn't matter if you are a part time PA with a blog, or a nurse who runs an online store in the evenings, whatever your ratio, your mixture, we can all channel our own entrepreneurial spirit to live more fulfilled and financially healthy lives. The book reflects on how we will all work more intelligently in the future and is written with humour and good sense for total newcomers to freelancing. 280pp. Paperback.

Brought together in one volume for the first time is the classic novel of epic future conflict 'The Forever War', its sequel 'Forever Free', and the companion novel 'Forever Peace'. William Mandella is a reluctant hero, who must fight in a distant interstellar war against unknowable and unconquerable aliens. His greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Relativity means that every time he returns home after a few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting. When Mandella returns for the last time he finds humanity has evolved into a group mind called Man. Living a dull life in an autocratic and intrusive society, missing the certainties of combat, and feeling increasingly alienated, the veterans plan an escape, but when their ship starts to fail, their journey becomes a search for the Unknown. In the final novel 'Forever Peace' it is 2043. The Ngumi War wages, fought by 'soldier boys', indestructible machines operated remotely by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers and for him war is truly hell, but he and his companion Dr Amelia Harding have discovered something that could literally take the universe back to square one. For Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as terrifyingly tempting. The novels were first published 1974, 1997 and 1999. Superb heavyweight quality omnibus paperback, 697pp.

Nursery rhymes, stories and songs, the 20 tracks include The Animals Went in Two by Two, Pussy Cat, Georgie Porgie, Lavender Blue, Pease Pudding Hot, Little Boy Blue, Hush-A-Bye Baby, Little Red Riding Hood (Story), a,b,c,d,e,f,g, Ring A Ring A Roses, Wee Willie Winkie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Story), Rapunzel (Story) and more.

In the dystopian future of Aveyard's debut, those who bleed red are the impoverished underclass, meant to serve silver-bloods who boast supernatural gifts that have helped them maintain control. But a rebellion is rising, and 17 year old Red narrator Mare Barrow is the spark to ignite the Scarlet Guard's cause. This masterful collection offers an entirely new look into the beloved characters in the iconic Red Queen series, where no one is as they appear and the only certainty is betrayal. Broken Throne features three brand new novellas, two previously published novellas Steel Scars and Queen Song alongside never-before-seen maps, flags, family trees, bonus scenes, journal entries and more exclusive content. An Unseated King searches for meaning in a world altered by war; enemy brothers clash one final time; a doomed queen pens words of hope to her future son; a Silver Princess trusts a Red Captain with her life in the chaos of an unknown land; a young Scarlet Guard Captain finds a glimmer of hope that will light a rebellion and a hero whose spark started a revolution discovers where she belongs in peace. A whopping 470 page large softback.

Witty and whimsical, The New Yorker wrote that the book 'leads us to some remarkable, unpredictable places, from the Alaskan wilderness to a supermarket parking lot in Southern Japan, from an old movie palace in Moscow to the underground histories of Northern Oklahoma.' From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, a quest that culminates on the frozen sea between the United States and Russia, Brian Phillips's book leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. He takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan where he becomes obsessed with the suicide of a famous writer, to the jungle in India where he considers the intertwined histories of conservation movements and man-eating tigers, to the studio of a great Russian animator, to a royal tour of the Yukon Territory with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and into the weird heart of America where he visits the gates of Area 51. Writing about the tiger he notes not its size or beauty but its capacity to disappear and this is typical of the personal content and sideways views in these big and powerful and beautiful essays. In places deeply poetic, well researched on our British royal family and all of his subjects. 331pp.

'The number one bestselling novel by the master of the killer twist.' Here is a dastardly psychological tale of murder, betrayal and revenge by one of the most successful French authors of all time. Jamal loves to run but one morning as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff he stumbles across a woman in distress. In a matter of seconds suddenly she is falling through the air, crashing on the beach below. Jamal is only an unlucky bystander, or is he? His version of events don't fit with what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen, and how to explain the red scarf carefully arranged around the dead woman's neck? Perhaps this was no accident after all, or perhaps there is something more sinister afoot, a devilish plan decades in the making, masterminded by someone hell-bent on revenge. Clear your diary dear reader and enjoy the myriad enigmas in this inventive plot with characters haunted by long-ago events. 394pp.

Summer in Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland. NOS4R2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense - claustrophobic, gripping and terrifying, it is the horrific tale of Charles Manx, a devilish protagonist who uses his supernatural powers in a ghastly mission to kidnap and kill dozens of children. Young Victoria McQueen has a gift for finding things. All she has to do is ride her bike through the Shorter Way Bridge and she'll come out wherever she needs to be. It's an ability she needs to keep secret because no one would understand it. Until she discovers she's not the only one with a special gift. Charles Manx takes children for rides in his 1938 Rolls Royce with its NOS4R2 vanity plate, driving them away from their families, homes and even their own humanity. When they reach their destination they have changed, utterly and have become Charlie's children, as unstoppable and insane as Manx himself. Only Viv McQueen escaped and that was just the beginning of their life-and-death battle of wills which explodes a quarter of a century later. 689pp in chunky paperback.

Despite her name, this intrepid explorer had a deep fear of fish, so to overcome her phobia she plots to travel to Thailand, learn to dive and swim with the biggest fish in the world, the mighty whale shark. Revealing, poignant, hilarious and horrific, it is a serious piece about conquering fears, personal courage, bereavement, family, the science of underwater exploration, decompression chambers and divers, and considerable knowledge about, well, fish. Studded with PADI open water manual quotations like 'No one but you can say what calls you to scuba diving', and References. 330pp.