Saturday, 25 October 2025
John Of The Cross: Man And Mystic by Richard P Hardy
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
My Brother Jason: The Untold Story Of The Life And Brutal Killing Of Jason Corbett By Tom And Molly Martens by Tracey Corbett-Lynch and Ralph Riegel
Saturday, 18 October 2025
Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson
Monday, 13 October 2025
Hostage by Eli Sharabi
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Deadly Silence: A Sister’s Battle To Uncover The Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh And Her Sons By Alan Hawe by Jacqueline Connolly with Kathryn Rogers
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
I Deliver Parcels In Beijing (Non-Fiction) by Hu AnYan
About the book: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (2025) is an authentic and humorous first person account of one worker’s daily life in the huge system that is the Chinese gig economy. The system could crush you unless you, as the author, have a slightly philosophical look on everyday life.
In 2023, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing became a literary sensation of the year in China. The story of a worker doing odd jobs in various anonymous mega-cities, Hu AnYan’s voice hit a nerve with a generation of young Chinese who feel at odds with an ever growing pressure to perform and succeed.
Hu started posting essays about his experiences online during COVID lockdowns. His recollection of night shifts in a huge logistics center in the South of China went nights so hot that even drinking three liters of water does not require a toilet break; colleagues going for KTV instead of trying to get a few hours' sleep; where are the affordable rooms with proper air conditioning, and what is the best amount of alcohol in order to sleep but not feel drowsy a few hours later?
The work is brutal, and there is no real sense of future in sight. But Hu is armed with a deadpan sense of humour and a strong idea of self, he moves on when he feels from logistics in the South to delivering parcels in Beijing, over to other odd jobs, all the while also discovering the power of reading and writing.
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is a bestseller in China in 2023 with over 160, 000 copies sold, 400,000 ebooks read, and 1,360,000 audio versions downloaded. Also sold for local publications in 15 territories. It will be released on 28 October 2025 and is available for pre-order now.
The book is a unique first person portrait of a society we never hear from but everyone has opinions about and benefits from. Quietly radical, brimming with humanity and humour, this book asks: what does work really mean? What should it mean? And do any of us really know how to live?
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is translated from the Mandarin by Jack Hargreaves.
About the author: Hu AnYan was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1979. After graduating from secondary school he joined the workforce, moving between cities and odd jobs to make a living. In 2020, a blog post based on his experience as a delivery driver in Beijing went viral, leading to the publication of his first book, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (Insight Media, 2023). It has since become a major national bestseller in China and will be translated into fifteen languages.
About the translator: Jack Hargreaves is a Chinese-English translator. He has translated work by such writers as Li Juan, Lu Xiaoyu, Chai Jing, Shen Dacheng, Gu Qian, Wen Zhen and Chen Chuncheng, among others.
Sunday, 5 October 2025
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Next Supper: The End Of Restaurants As We Knew Them, And What Comes After by Corey Mintz
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Blood In The Water: The Untold Story Of A Family Tragedy by Casey Sherman
Monday, 29 September 2025
Cellar Rat: My Life In The Restaurant Underbelly by Hannah Selinger
Friday, 26 September 2025
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
About the author: From the elegant to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen - or just to gawk - at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run.
Your Table Is Ready (2022) drops us back in time in the most vibrant city in the world, taking us places we would never have been able to get into on our own: Raouls in Soho with its louche club vibe; Buzzy O’Keefe’s casually chic River Café (the only outer-borough establishment to make the grade), from Keith McNally’s Minetta Tavern to Nolita’s Le Coucou, with its French Country Auberge-meets-winery look and the most exquisite stands of eternally fresh flowers.
From his early career serving stars like Tennessee Williams and Dustin Hoffman at La Rousse right through to the last pre-pandemic full houses at LeCouCou, Cecchi-Azzolina breaks down how restaurants really run (and don’t), and how the economics work for owners and overworked staff alike.
The professionals who gravitate to the business are a special, tougher breed, practiced in dealing with demanding patrons and with each other, in a distinctive ecosystem that is somewhere between a George Orwell “down and out in….” dungeon and a sleek showman’s smoke-and-mirrors palace.
Like Stanley Tucci’s “Big Night”, Your Table Is Ready (2022) is a history of the era when maitre d’s rather than chefs were the culinary world’s stars. It is a rollicking, raunchy, revelatory memoir.
About the author: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has been in the restaurant industry for more than thirty-five years. From his early career at La Rousse, he has gone on to run the front of house at New York's most famous and influential restaurants, including The Water Club, The River Cafe, Raoul's, and Le Coucou. He lives in Manhattan.














