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The Writer’s Cats

An entertaining and gorgeously illustrated portrait of a writer’s life avec chats from the acclaimed author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog…

The Wood that Built London

A Human History of the Great North Wood Standing in the busy streets of South London today, it is hard to imagine that much of this suburban…

Wake Me Up When It’s All Over…

In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter wri…

London Explored

Secret, surprising and unusual places to discover in the Capital London is packed with little-known treasures: remarkably preserved historic…

Art of the Extreme 1905-1914

The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the cruc…

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

‘A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating’ William…

London Shopfronts

London has some of the most stylish shopfronts in the world. From centuries old to brilliantly new, a stroll down any of the capital high st…

The Female Chef

A glance at the current list of British Michelin starred chefs will tell you the food scene historic gender imbalance is far from solved. Wo…

Writers on Writing: A Book of Quotations

Writers on Writing brings together a plethora of phrases, memorable lines, quips and put downs, Writers on Writing brings together words of…

Kiss Myself Goodbye

The Many Lives of Aunt Munca Aunt Munca never told the truth about anything. Calling herself after the mouse in a Beatrix Potter story, she…

Making Nice

Ferdinand Mount’s stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in…

The Searchers

The Quest for the Lost of the First World War By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldier…

I Would Prefer Not To: Essential Stories

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville’s darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a…

The Passenger

BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges on…

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world…

The Art of Pulp Fiction

An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fictio…

Tomorrow Is Too Late

In Tomorrow Is Too Late, Grace Maddrell collects testimonies of activism and hope from young climate strikers, from Brazil and Burundi to Pa…

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high offi…

Bright Stars

Great Artists Who Died Too Young Some of the world’s greatest and most-loved artists died under the age of forty. But how did they turn rela…

The Secret Life of Fish

Discover the astonishing truth about our aquatic cousins: how they think and what they know, their experiences and unique behaviours, and th…

NICK

‘NICK is an exemplary novel. Smith delivers a moving, full-bodied depiction of a man who has been knocked loose from his moorings and is try…

Lights, Planets, People!

Renowned astronomer Maggie Hill is giving a lecture about her career, to inspire young women to work in science. She’s also attending her fi…

Biography Of A Fly

In his inimitable style, Jaap Robben tells the story of a fly, from the moment it enters the world as a larva right up to its deathbed. Fly…

A Single Rose

The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a Frenchwoman’s emotional awakening in the stunning fifth novel by international bestsel…

The Tudors in Love

The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I’s…

Transient Desires

When two young American women are badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in Venice’s Laguna with two young Italians, Commissario Gu…

Larger than an Orange

The days and hours before the first visit to the clinic and the weeks and months after. The pregnancy was a mistake and the narrator immedia…

Matrix

Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the p…

The Magician

From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of…

Hurdy Gurdy

It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Brothor Diggory’s life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever…

The Upswing

How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam’s brilliant analysis of economic, social, cult…

The Book of Form and Emptiness

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things i…

Exteriors

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place…

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open

What are you willing to lose for a connected life? Digital detox expert Tanya Goodin explores the cost that our digital life inflicts on our…

Writers’ Letters

Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe Delve into the lives and work of some of the world’s great writers with this intriguing collection of correspon…

The Contrarian

Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversi…

The View from the Hill

Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain In Christopher Somerville’s workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creas…

Land of Cockaigne

The Land of Cockaigne was an old medieval peasants’ dream of a sensual paradise on earth. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne is…

The Man Who Died Twice SIGNED COPY

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN It’s the following Thursday….

Wagnerism

Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wa…

The Stray Cats of Homs

Sami’s childhood is much like any other – school with his friends, dinners with his family, playing with his pets (stray cats and dogs, and…

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish…

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

‘A wonderful book … Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia’s extraordinary life’ The Times ‘A masterpiece’ Vanessa Redgrave Born into one of…

Odd Boy Out

‘I am what my childhood made me’ But what is that exactly, Gyles? Who are you? And why? Odd Boy Out is an extraordinarily revealing account…

Shackleton

In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. What follo…

Far District

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker…

Randalls Round

Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott ‘These stories have all had their origins in dreams… Terrifying enough to the dreamer… I hope that some…

Tools for Food

The Objects that Influence How and What We Eat Tools For Food explores the history of 250 of our most-loved and intriguing kitchen items and…

Essential

Ollie Dabbous is one of the UK’s most exciting chefs. His restrained but stunning dishes celebrate the essence of ingredients and flavour. E…

The Italian Bakery

Step-by-Step Recipes with the Silver Spoon Bake like an Italian with this latest Silver Spoon treasure – a culinary inspiration and go-to ki…

Sally on the Rocks

When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Litt…

The Last House on Needless Street

This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Oli…

The Natural History Book

A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth’s wildlife and natural history – its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms -…

Rick Stein at Home

Recipes, Memories and Stories from a Food Lover’s Kitchen Home is more than a place. It’s a feeling. Rick Stein has spent his life travellin…

Everything You Need to Know About Whisky

(But are too afraid to ask) Demystify the world of whisky. Whisky experts Nick Morgan and The Whisky Exchange open the lid on the whisky ind…

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon

Lost in the swirling mists they fall asleep under glittering stars. It is spring by the time they emerge and while they sit watching a warm…

Sugar

An unforgettable story of friendship and forgiveness in a small town in the American South, SUGAR is a classic of commercial fiction waiting…

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the…

The Story of the World in 100 Moments

From much-loved historian Neil Oliver comes a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unforgettable stories. In his bril…

Palaces of Revolution

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in anLife, Death and Art at the Stuart Court a…

Dancing in Odessa

Described as ‘a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city’ (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odess…

The Forward Book of Poetry 2022

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the…

Poems of the Decade 2011-2020

An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011-2020 Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Priz…

Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street

Once a more sedate affair, since 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of crises, resignations and general elections. As Brexit bec…

What They Heard

How The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan Listened to Each Other and Changed Music Forever They were the artists who revolutionised popu…

This Much is True

‘There is no one on earth quite so wonderful’ STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabb…

Fever-Tree Easy Mixing

From the world’s leading premium mixer brand, Fever-Tree Easy Mixing: More than 150 Quick and Delicious Mixed Drinks and Cocktails, is Fever…

Hot Stew

‘Ambitious, clever, brilliant and very funny . . . If Elmet announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, Hot Stew conf…

The Border – A Journey Around Russia

Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border – from North Korea in the Far East through Russia’s bordering states in Asi…

Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator

Author of more than six acclaimed graphic novels and well-known for his economical drawing and clear, explanatory narrative, Cunningham show…

Effin’ Birds: A Field Guide to Identification

Have you ever looked a bird dead in the eye and wondered what it was thinking? With Effin’ Birds, the most eagerly anticipated new volume in…

Dinner Party: A Tragedy

Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party – from t…

London In Lockdown

This book is a beautiful, disturbing and at times uplifting visual account of London’s first lockdown in March 2020: the economy was all but…

Blackout

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly e…

Little Brown Dog

When friends Lena and Eliza hear rumours of barbaric experiments being conducted under the guise of scientific progress, they infiltrate the…

Swingin’ London: A Field Guide

The term Swinging London entered the language in 1965 when Time magazine ran a cover story on the subject. More than fifty years later, the…

The Weak Spot

A woman discovers something toxic at work in the isolated village where she is apprenticing as a pharmacist, in this fable-like novel about…

Harlem Shuffle SIGNED COPY

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) ‘Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being croo…

In The Shadow Of The Yali

Raised by her grandmother in one of the famed yalis, elegant yet crumbling, that line the Bosphorus, Celile occupies a unique space between…

The Tyranny of Merit

The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world’s most popular philosophers “Astute, insightful, and empathetic…

The Best Short Stories 2021

The O. Henry Prize Winners Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year–continuing…

What Alexander McQueen Can Teach You About Fashion

If Alexander McQueen were to give a masterclass on design, creativity and attitude, what wisdom would he impart? Discover McQueen’s life, wo…

These Names Make Clues

‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it-and went.’ Chief Inspector Mac…

The Kitchen Studio: Culinary Creations by Artists

A unique exploration of the culinary imagination and creativity of a stellar array of international contemporary artists – a host of intrigu…

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43

The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Hen…

Greek Myths: A New Retelling

In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the cre…

Never Saw Me Coming

First-year student, ordinary, legging-wearing, girl next door…and highly intelligent diagnosed psychopath. Chloe is part of a secret clini…

The Gardeners’ World Almanac

A month-by-month guide to your gardening year The team at Gardeners’ World bring you the ultimate guide to your gardening year, from plannin…

Another Now

Dispatches from an Alternative Present ‘A landmark work’ Brian Eno Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billio…

On Freedom

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freed…

Michael Kohlhaas

‘I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time… it carries me along waves of wonder’ Franz Kafka MICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRO…

London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City

‘Tom Chivers, with the forensic eye of an investigator, the soul of a poet, is an engaging presence; a guide we would do well to follow.’ Ia…

Against White Feminism

An essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is – and an empowering manifesto for revolution For readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge’s…

JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956

By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen. Born in 1917 to a…

The Madness of Despair

Living in London, far from their Arab homelands, Nafie and his young wife Maliha become good friends with Doctor Nadim, a fellow exile. In t…

The Great Troll War

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolv…

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty: The Small Edition

Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don’t Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. Women Don’t Owe You Pretty is…

The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year

‘In this excellent book, Ecott’s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.’ – PAUL THEROUX Following the natu…

World of Wonders

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments A New York Times Bestseller What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you…

Confronting Leviathan

Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, A History of Ideas explores some of the most important…

The Art of More

How mathematics created civilisation Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civi…

Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science

Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, th…

A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a tradit…

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her…

The Shortest History of China

China contains a multitude. Its unruly complexity is part of its grandeur. Modern China is at once an economic powerhouse and authoritarian…

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now When the ne…

Exponential

How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, bett…

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. Mich…

Eight Days in May

‘The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ulrich’s rich narrative…

Afghan Napoleon – The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud

When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighti…

Death and Dying

An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death’s existential and emotional…

Empire of the Vampire

From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicle, comes this masterful new series. Featuring the darkl…

Keeping the House

Cabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that’s where we put the heroin . . . There’s a stash of heroin wa…

A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

From antiquity to the present day, this book offers a fascinating insight into the histories, movements and conflicts which have come to sha…

No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute

A love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes and in the troubling intimacy of public transport post-Charlie Hebdo attacks, Lauren Elkin’s…

The Star-Nosed Mole

An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing After publishing Scent Magic, an acclaimed memoir of plants, gardens and scent, Isabel Bannerman coul…

Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2022

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty ye…

Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy

Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball…

Piranesi

Staff Pick Weird, wonderful and pretty damn unforgettable – for all the right reasons! The author of ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ turns…

Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can…

Death Threats: And Other Stories

This new selection of stories featuring Inspector Maigret – three of which are published in English for the first time – takes the detective…

The Radical Potter

Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon o…

Time: 10 Things You Should Know

Discover the secrets of one of the biggest puzzles in our history – Time. As a subject, it has perplexed and fascinated generations of scien…

The Great British Tree Biography

Inspired by the history of Britain, from the tree under which the first trade union was formed to the branches from which outlaws were hange…

Vegetables: The Definitive Guide for Gardeners

Beautiful and comprehensive, Vegetables is a must-have for all gardeners, by acclaimed authors Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix. Whether you ar…

Chewing the Fat

Tasting notes from a greedy life ‘This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.’ Nigella Lawso…

Poison for Breakfast

A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious childre…

Med: A Cookbook

‘Claudia Roden channels the sun and warm glow of the Mediterranean. To read Claudia is to sit at her table, with everything, simply, as it s…

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

Did you know that mosquitoes’ mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who’d have thought that the humble mussel could…

The Dragonfly Sea

From the award-winning author of Dust comes a magical, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports readers from Kenya to China and Tu…

Just the Plague

Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadv…

A House Through Time

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked u…

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones’s epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year advent…

Fossil Men

The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind A decade in the making, Fossil Men is a scientific detective story played out…

Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women

Enter a world in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman’s heart is alive with courage! This global feast of ancient tales features va…

Young Stalin

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin’s bandit? Was he to blame for his wife’s death? Whe…

Lethal Seduction

Featuring a brand new introduction from Sunday Times bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to h…

The Dark Remains

If the truth’s in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead…

Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022

The world’s best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine – in…

SBS – Silent Warriors

From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain’s SBS – or Special Boat Service – was the world’s…

Atlas of the Invisible

Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World Discover the hidden patterns in human society as you have never seen them before…

The Winter Garden

Welcome to the Winter Garden. Open only at 13 o’clock. You are invited to enter an unusual competition. I am looking for the most magical, s…

The Sweet Roasting Tin

From the bestselling author of The Roasting Tin series, comes seventy-five easy and delicious one-tin bakes in one sweet package. From crave…

The Godless Gospel

Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus – and the Christian values he…

The Letters of John McGahern

I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963 John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and S…

English Pastoral

The new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd’s Life ‘A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape’ Nigel S…

Trio

‘An elating read’ Sunday Times A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther Kin…

The Goddess Chronicle

On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the…

The Arrest

The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted – car…

Faber Poetry Diary 2022

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty ye…

Just Us: An American Conversation

At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the r…

The Weirdest People in the World

Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and go…

The Churchill Complex

‘Rich and rewarding’ Wall Street Journal It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understand…

The Story of Looking

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour – in words and images – through how our looking selves develop ove…

Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro’s visit to New York. ‘Wit…

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Shot through with Stoppard’s voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee’s gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive materi…

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. Ho…

The Tuesday Club Murders: Miss Marple’s Thirteen Problems

Follow the genious mysteries of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’ with this hardback special edition of Agatha Christie’s beloved classic. THE ORIGIN…

The Status Game

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling, a bold and ambitious investigation of the hidden structure behind h…

Women in the War

Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain’s ‘Greatest Gen…

Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy

Being with our loved ones has never felt so important, and great food is the perfect excuse to get together. Each chapter features a meal, f…

The Gardens of Mars

A journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world’s…

Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

‘Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous … Heiresses makes for an entertaining, occasionally sad and never les…

Lost Animals

Extinction and the Photographic Record A photograph of an animal long-gone evokes a feeling of loss more than a painting ever can. Often tin…

Bowie’s Books

‘What is your idea of perfect happiness?’ ‘Reading.’ ‘What is the quality you most like in a man?’ ‘The ability to return books.’ Three year…

On the Cusp: Days of ’62

The ‘real’ Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and…

There’s a War Going On But No One Can See It

ummer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for A&E. Ambulan…

Populista

The Rise of Latin America’s 21st Century Strongman For more than six decades, Fidel Castro’s words have echoed through the politics of Latin…

The Book of Cat Poems

Curious, enigmatic and playful, cats have often inspired the literary imagination. This beautifully illustrated anthology of cat poetry is a…

The Almanac

*THE ORIGINAL & BESTSELLING ALMANAC* A perfect toolkit for connecting with the world around us and the year ahead as it unfolds – all in…

Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know

Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most fascinating parts of the lives of Earth’s most awe-inspiring creatures – the dino…

Five Minds

SHARING A BODY CAN BE MURDER The Earth’s spiralling population has finally been controlled. Lifespans are limited to eighty years, except fo…

The Book of Dog Poems

The relationship between us humans and our dogs has inspired many of the world’s greatest poets. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, the poem…

The Dawn of Language

Who was “the first speaker” and what was their first message? An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity’s…

A Girl Made of Air

‘A captivating tale of love and loss and finding connection in the most unexpected places’ Nikki Marmery, author of On Wilder Seas A lyrical…

Slough House

Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service rec…

Comfort MOB: Food That Makes You Feel Good

It’s the return of the MOB! This time celebrating all things crispy, squidgy, cheesy, spicy, warming, sticky, nourishing… all the flavours…

Souvenir

‘The best evocation I’ve read of London in the ’80s’ Neil Tennant ‘A suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summ…

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and hi…

The Late Train to Gipsy Hill

Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the train applies her make…

Art Matters

Because Your Imagination Can Change the World Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman comb…

The Joy and Light Bus Company

The latest instalment from the beloved THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY series Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed. She has a lovi…

The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer

A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea…

How to Raise an Elephant

The latest instalment from the beloved THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY series Catch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and o…

Russian Roulette

Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie…

War in the Shadows

‘One of our very best writers on France.’ Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resista…

The Gold Machine

From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In The Gold…

My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, writes about the secrets a body keeps, from gender identity, puberty, and menstruation to s…

Veggiestan

The ten-year anniversary edition Veggiestan, ‘the land of vegetables’ refers to the Middle Eastern region that merits such a name; a region…

English Magic

A Slow Fire Burning

‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her d…

Cruickshank’s London

A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks ‘The perfect guide to the hidden history of London’s streets.’ BBC History Magazine In Cruickshank’s London…

The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

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Contested Lands – A History of the Middle East since the First World War

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Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient

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Life: A User’s Manual

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Active Measures

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Checkpoint Charlie

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Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

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Scenes from Prehistoric Life

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The Supernova Era

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The Wandering Earth

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The Black Locomotive

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The Echo Chamber

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Men in My Situation

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If You Should Fail

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Chess for Beginners

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Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans

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All of You Every Single One

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Benjamin’s Crossing

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Breakthrough

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We Travelled: Essays and Poems

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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

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The Evidence

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You Will Never Be Forgotten

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The Luminous Novel

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Pupa

A quirk of evolution has given humanity a different reproductive cycle. People can either remain at the larval stage, or submit themselves t…

Red Traitor

Inspired by one the least known but most terrifying moments in modern history – when the fate of the world lay with a lone, nervous Soviet n…

The Last and the First

On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs’ farm. Having fled revolution and civil war in Russia, the family has worked ti…

The Motorcycle Diaries

‘A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac’ Washington Post ‘It’s true; Marxists just wanna have fun… a revolutionary bestseller’ Guardi…

The City We Became

Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times…

Spy Sinker

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Spy Hook

Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission i…

Spy Line

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12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next.

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That Old Country Music

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Ghosts

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Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

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An Opinionated Guide To Kids’ London

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Rider on the Rain

A lonely young woman in a French seaside town, victim of a horrific attack, turns the tables on her tormentor, shoots him dead and dumps his…

Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

Rediscover the crucial roles held by women within the heart of Christianity. Favourite disciple, influential woman, true believer and follow…

Midsummer Mysteries

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What You Can See From Here:

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Interviews with an Ape

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Mordew

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She Who Became the Sun

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Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure

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Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists

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The Ophelia Girls

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The Nine Lives of Pakistan

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Karolina, or the Torn Curtain

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The Sandpit

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Until Proven Safe

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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier

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The Black Dress

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Everything in Moderation

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War on Peace: The Decline of American Influence

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A Touch of Mistletoe

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Conversations on Love

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The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718

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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

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Parklife: A love letter to London’s green spaces

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The Basel Killings

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Stranger in the Shogun’s City

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The Family Clause

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The Pathfinders

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The Nation of Plants

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The Divinities

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Elena Knows

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The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

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