As organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of design to strategy, designers have an opportunity to shape decisions at the highest level, moving beyond low-level UI/UX decisions to product vision and strategy. In The Designer's Guide to Product Vision, pioneering product design visionary Laura Fish helps you level up your skills and become a modern design leader. Fish shows how to make the hard-won transformation to strategic designer, and harness your ...

A searing, suspenseful story of a woman’s confrontation with the sinister legacy of British colonialism in Southern Africa.Koliwe has grown up between two worlds: England, her white mother’s home country, where she was born and raised, and Eswatini, the homeland her father left behind. When her father dies unexpectedly, Koliwe takes a job as an aid worker for a British-run nonprofit in Eswatini. There, her belief in the necessity of international aid is tested by t...

WINNER OF THE SI LEEDS READER'S CHOICE AWARD 2022. FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF 'STRANGE MUSIC'.When Koliwe leaves England for a new job in overseas aid in Eswatini, formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, she encounters a world of clashing beliefs, wealthy ex-pats and sexual predators. As she uncovers the corruption at the heart of the aid community, she is forced to reassess her own identity and confront those who seek to undermine her.A compell...

In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper, tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master; and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover.As Elizabeth, a passionate abolitionist, struggles to c...

"The all-new ARCHIE adventure continues!Superstar writer Mark Waid teams up with the best and brightest artists in comics to bring a modern take to the legendary Riverdale cast of characters.The book will captures the bite and hilarious edge of Archie's original tales in a modern, forward-looking manner, while still retaining the character's all-ages appeal.If classic Archie is a Saturday morning cartoon, this new series is prime time!Performed by Bradley Fo...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother.“This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek“By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yo...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors**Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow’s boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a...

For readers of Karly Lane and Tricia Stringer...misunderstandings and injured pride stand in the way of true love in this charming rural romance from an award-winning and much-loved author.'Penelope Janu's fresh, bright, funny new twist on rural romance is an absolute delight. Her wit is as sharp as a knife. She is one of my absolute must-read authors.' Victoria Purman, bestselling Australian authorAfter a troubled childhood and the loss of her beloved gran...

They were inseparable until an innocent mistake tore them apart.Growing up, Viola and Issy clung to each other in the wake of their mother's eccentricity, as she dragged them from a commune to a tiny Welsh village. They thought the three of them would be together forever.But an innocent mistake one summer set them on drastically different paths. Now in their twenties, Issy is trying to hold together a life as a magazine art director, while Viola is slowly destroying herself...

“Marc Hamer knows how to live—simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul.”—Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good CreatureFrom the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens.Best enjoyed in a single sitting under the shade of a tree, this inventive and curative book c...

Njambi McGrath, award winning author of Through the Leopard's Gaze, delivers this stunning debut novel examining the validity of fury as response when a young Kenyan girl's mistakes in first love are ruthlessly held against her by a paternalistic society.Mukami is a young scholarship student at a prestigious boarding school. She has a clear path ahead of her, but a deceptive smile, a school expulsion and an impossible pregnancy see her well ordered life hurtling to...

Each beautifully told story in this fine collection resonates with a moving depth of emotional understanding. Having won prizes in major national competitions for four of these stories, had several selected for anthologies of significant New Zealand writing, with numerous broadcast on radio and one even translated into Mandarin, Carl Nixon was long overdue for a book of his own, collecting his stories together. So, here they are. Stories that evoke the South Island landsc...