Sub-titled 'How Medical Cannabis and CBD are healing everything from anxiety to chronic pain'. Millions of people around the world are healing illnesses with cannabis yet nonetheless many doctors remain reluctant to discuss cannabis medicine with their patients. There is much conflicting misinformation from unreliable sources, so finding out if cannabis can be an effective treatment can feel nearly impossible. Dr Bonni Goldstein has helped thousands of patients suffering from chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions improved with cannabis. In her revelatory book she explains the current state of scientific research on how cannabis interacts with human physiology to create homeostasis or balance, leading to good health. Many of the plant's compounds including CBD and their therapeutic effects are explained in detail. There is a guide through the confusing array of cannabis-based products now available, and detailed guidance on what to avoid, and how her patients have been able to customise a personalised cannabis regimen. Dr Goldstein presents 28 common conditions which patients have found cannabis treatment to be helpful for including cancer, insomnia and gastrointestinal disorders. She guides you carefully through all the scientific research with big clear headers and short entries of the medicinal effects of CBN, THCA, CBDA and its interaction with the brain and body and how they inhibit COX, decreasing production of prosta-glandins. COX enzymes have also been shown to promote metastasis of breast cancer cells. Includes case studies. Even if you have never smoked that proverbial joint, this therapy is worth learning about. 355pp, large softback, illus and charts. Save £10.

Detective Alex Cross has lost everything and everyone he has ever cared about. His enemy Thierry Mulch is holding his family hostage. Driven by feelings of hatred and revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross forever, but Cross is fighting back. In a race against time he must defeat Mulch and find his wife and children, no matter what it takes. The end-game has begun. 496 thrilling pages, paperback.

Detective Alex Cross is hunting three killers, but is someone hunting him? They are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up. Alex is in charge of all three investigations and has never been under more pressure, but with a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart, his attention is divided. While Cross tracks the killers, he doesn't notice that someone is tracking him. Can he unravel the cases and find the killers in time, or will he be the next dead body on the list? A thrilling thriller. 505pp, paperback.

Alex Cross's whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted, stalked like prey, his predator priming himself for the kill. Cross has devoted his life to protecting others. Now he's unable to protect even those closest to him. As a police detective he has made many enemies, but never like this. Everything he loves is being taken from him and soon he will have nothing and no one left. This is James Patterson at the top of his game. 518pp, paperback.

When Eve and her sisters are orphaned and become homeless, a lecherous neighbour befriends the girls. To escape his clutches, they journey to Gateshead to the hiring at the Michaelmas fair but no one wants them. The spectre of the workhouse looms, but then Caleb Travis, a young innkeeper from Washington, takes pity on them. Eve vows to repay Caleb's kindness and works tirelessly at the inn while keeping her sisters out of trouble. She finds herself falling in love with Caleb but he has only eyes for the wayward Mary. Tragedy forces Eve to leave Washington and make a new life for herself. Too late, Caleb realises what he's lost, and that the woman he loves may be gone for ever. 'A flesh and blood drama to touch any soul' ? Northern Echo. 450pp, paperback, author extras.

The President's son and daughter have been kidnapped and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. Just days later a deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Alex fears that these events could signal the beginning of the most devastating terrorist attack the US has ever experienced. With each passing hour the window for solving both crimes narrow, and Alex must make a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in. High octane stuff and relentlessly exciting. 500 page paperback.

Sub-titled 'Our Story In Numbers as Told by the Office for National Statistics' from the Census 2021. What official data past and present tells us about our nation is who we are, what we do and where we live. For the past 200 years, the Census has charted our jobs, home lives and strange cultural habits with questions on occupation, housing, religion, travel and the family. The Census findings have informed the economy, politics and every other national matter and the data collected forms the single most valuable on-going historical resource of modern times. In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, six stamp makers and one bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK, and not a single eye maker in sight! Here is the lowdown on our relationships, cultural beliefs and of course recent findings on COVID-19. There is a great deal on the popularity of 'traditional' names, the trend towards informality with names, the way in which we use the Internet is changing, the gap between what young people wanted to do and how much they envisaged earning and the reality of how they ended up. In 2016 the top five jobs that 16-21 year olds wanted to do included artistic, literary and media (writer, actor, producer), teaching, health professional, police officer or nursing. House building and skyscrapers, working hours and education, a fascinating slice of mass observation. 298pp, diagrams.

Love him or loath him, the journalist Piers Morgan shouts loud a rallying cry for a united future to consider what really matters in life. It's time to get back some common sense, time to cancel the cancel culture. If you think NHS heroes and Captain Sir Tom Moore are the real stars of our society, not the self-obsessed, tone-deaf celebrities and royal renegades, then this is the book for you. Piers Morgan is sickened by the cancel-culture bullies, destroying people's careers and lives and from feminism to masculinity, racism to gender, body image to veganism, mental health to competitiveness at school, the right to free speech and expressing an honestly held opinion he believes are being crushed at the altar of 'woke' political correctness. COVID-19 shed shocking light on the problems that plague our country. Stockpilers and lockdown cheats revealed our grotesque levels of self-interest. Millennials flocked to parks for picnics, proving the rank hypocrisy of the supposedly 'socially conscious'. The virtue-signalling woke brigade continued their furious assault on free speech, shutting down debate on important issues like gender, racism and feminism. The global pandemic has exposed in the UK deep divisions within society and laid bare a toxic culture war and here Morgan also holds the government to often ferocious account over its handling of the crisis. Yet he also on balance sees that Coronavirus has showcased our strengths, selfless bravery in the heroic efforts of our healthcare staff, a greater appreciation of migrant workers, the return of local community spirit and inspiring, noble acts from members of the public. From Wuhan to PPE, Harry and Meghan and Black Lives Matter and attacks on statues, Boris and Donald, here is a book of January to July. Morgan has strong opinions and is utterly truthful in where he points his aim.

The current 2020 collection features seven subsidiary characters from Giles's portfolio who sometimes appear in his cartoons but are not part of the main storyline being illustrated. They are there to amuse the cartoonist and include the Parrot, a present from the children to Grandma in 1980 and who had a very disruptive impact on the family's life pulling out electrical leads and on one occasion even answering the telephone. Stinker was the son of a neighbour and gets into all sorts of mischief. Rupert Bear with his checked trousers and matching yellow scarf was often hanging by his neck from a light fitting or doorknob! Bewildered baby George suffers from being the only child of an over-anxious mother, Vera, who is usually shown suffering from some ailment or other. Butch the dog is often involved in various catastrophes, observing with dismay and surprise and sometimes amusement. From the mid 60s, frogs suddenly arrive on the scene, sometimes as toys, and look out for the mice from December 1965, possibly included after their arrival at Giles's own farm or one of its outbuildings. Big full page cartoons with clear captions and date of appearance in the Sunday or Daily Express from the 1960s to the 1980s. 150 cartoons to extend your Giles collection. Paperback.

Curiouser and curiouser... Kristen, a researcher for the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, discovers extraordinary pages from Carroll's diary revealing a hidden chapter of his life: the truth surrounding the writer's real relationship with Alice Liddell which could rock Oxford to its core. However, after an accident, Kristen joins forces with mathematics student G to decipher what shadows lurk behind the salacious pictures sent to the Brotherhood and to survive the murderer circling closer to anyone who delves too far into Carroll's life. No one is safe in this thriller novel by the author of The Oxford Murders, inspired by the strange stories surrounding Carroll's life. Dive into G's mind as you read his observations that take in everything from an illustration of a raven on a noticeboard to the slightest change of mood in his interviewees' expressions. Sit with him in his study as he reads a book on Carroll to try and solve the puzzle: 'To make the DEAD LIVE' which was buried among the Wonderland creator's history of participating in spiritualist gatherings, claiming he had been able to photograph ghosts. Explore G's watering holes across Oxford, from a meeting with an inspector at The Eagle and Child or greeting a professor at the Little Clarendon pub who is holding court with an eager student over a pint of beer. This cerebral and exciting novel from Guillermo Martínez, winner of the Planeta prize, will draw readers into the mystery and have them scouring every page for a clue that will stop the murderer in time. 284pp.