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A Game of Fate

Discover the enthralling fantasy world of gods and mortals in bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair’s reimagined New Greece. Readers are “ho…

Youthquake

Why African Demography Should Matter to the World A riveting study of Africa’s demographics – its youth and growth – and what they mean for…

Where God Does Not Walk

THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918 Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordi…

The Football Book

The Teams *The Rules *The Leagues *The Tactics This is the ultimate guide for any football fan who wants to know everything about the “beaut…

The Impostor: and Other Stories

Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks i…

Essays Two

Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essa…

Somewhere Towards The End

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs – her commitment, in her words, ‘to…

Stet

An Editor’s Life Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and…

Winter

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directl…

A Will to Kill

MIST, MOUNTAINS, MURDER. Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Mano…

The Village of Eight Graves

Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

A fresh new translation of Collodi’s cherished classic of childhood adventure Carved from a piece of magical wood by the old carpenter Geppe…

The Little Prince

And Letter to a Hostage Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Sm…

The Master Key

A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door;…

Gentleman Overboard

Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today’s readers to launch Boiler House…

A Touch of Darkness

From bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. “Let me worship…

Altered States

Edited by Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers What are altered states of consciousness? Can altered states produce altered worlds? Altered States exp…

City of Gold

January 1942. Rommel’s troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German…

MAMista

Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator – while the…

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of…

Why I Write Poetry: Essays on Becoming a Poet, Keeping Going and Advice for the Writing Life

What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with…

Christmas Poems

This beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffy’s much-celebrated festive poems. For a decade,…

Oak

Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow lives have a…

The Dead of Winter

Three gripping tales from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller S. J. Parris. The Secret Dead During the summer of 1566, a girl’s body is found withi…

Bruno’s Challenge & Other Dordogne Tales

A bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, Chief of Police and France’s favourite cop, all set in the beautiful Dordogne val…

Blood Grove

Ezekiel “Easy” Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to…

Harsh Times

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a…

Beyond the Hallowed Sky

Book One of the Lightspeed Trilogy When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn’t know wh…

A History of What Comes Next

Germany, 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of G…

Autopsy (The Scarpetta Series Book 25)

The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay Scarpetta Kay Scarpetta is back, and…

The Insider

The thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK’s most exciting new spy writer A Russian defec…

Murakami T

The T-Shirts I Love The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-s…

A Study in Scarlet

The first Sherlock Holmes story brings together our sleuthing partnership. The story begins in 1881 when Dr Watson returns to London from th…

The Sign of the Four

From the foggy back streets of London to the heat and dust of Agra, this second novel of the sleuthing duo focuses on stolen Indian treasure…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle’s wonderful tales of the inimitable “consul…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When the owner of Baskerville Hall is found lifeless, his face distorted with horror, it is the beginning of an unsettling adventure that ta…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle’s wonderful tales of the inimitable “consul…

The Valley of Fear

Set before the events of the Reichenbach Falls, the formidable Sherlock Holmes is back. Tested to the extreme by cyphers, cryptic clues, and…

His Last Bow

Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle’s won…

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle’s wonderful tales of the inimitable “consul…

Black British Lives Matter

A Clarion Call for Equality Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more. In response t…

Slow Road to San Francisco

Across the USA From Ocean to Ocean As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets Trump’s countrymen and women…

The Eye Of The World

Book 1 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series) When she arrives in a small village in the Two Rivers, Moiraine discovers three young me…

Passing

Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both light-skinned enough to pass as white, but only one of them has chosen to cross the colour line a…

The Crocodile Hunter

Jonas Merrick. At MI5 they call him ‘the eternal flame’, because he never goes out. Never goes undercover, or on surveillance, or kicking do…

The Meat Cookbook

Know the Cuts, Master the Skills, over 250 Recipes A meat feast awaits! Become an expert on buying, preparing, and cooking meat. From discov…

Home Cocktail Bible

Every Cocktail Recipe You’ll Ever Need – Over 200 Classics and New Inventions With over 200 recipes, Home Cocktail Bible tells you everythin…

Annie Leibovitz

Wonderland Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz’s surprising account of her encounters with fashion over five decades ‘Looking back at my…

Her Diaries and Notebooks

‘My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.’ Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, P…

Viral

The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determi…

The Every

The electrifying follow up to Sunday Times bestseller The Circle When the world’s largest search engine / social media company merges with t…

In the Eye of the Wild

After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East’s Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritu…

Somebody Loves You

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothin…

La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

Mary Tudor’s childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, an…

The Retreat

Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to the reclusive silent-film star Valerie Sw…

The Books of Jacob

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland….

Brilliant Objects

Witness four thousand years of history through the eyes of those who lived it. Manhattan, 2083. Sixteen-year-old Hannah knows that this is t…

The Travel Book

Get ready for a journey through every country in the world. In this fourth edition of The Travel Book each country features an all-new profi…

The Good Beer Guide 2022

The Uk’s definitive guidebook to good pubs that serve real ale across the UK. The GBG is completely independent, with listings based entirel…

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou…

The Barn

The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm The astonishing, socio-historic uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of lif…

Victoria Wood Unseen on TV

In the five years since Victoria Wood’s death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we will never again be surprised by new mater…

The Sinner and the Saint

Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation o…

Bourdain: In Stories

When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated hi…

The Women of Rothschild

The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wea…

How I Learned to Understand the World

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling – Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, F…

Wallis in Love

The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that tot…

The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he’d come across in the last 365 days…

The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never see…

Eureka!

Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same ai…

Flights of Fancy

Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and…

Safety in Numbers

This is not the time for adultery. Your lover will fail to be impressed, not so much by the face mask and stale musk of sanitizing gel, but…

New and Selected Poems

Ian Duhig’s effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years. This…

The Fell

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two-week quaran…

On Getting Better

To talk about getting better – about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer – is to talk about pursuing the life we want;…

A Short History of Islamic Thought

A history of Islamic thought – from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day – in 250 pages from a brilliant historian of th…

Phone for the Fish Knives

The Todes are back, and they’re taking on Hollywood . . . When Hollywood wants to do a remake of the film that made Tode Hall famous, India…

The Lost and the Damned

This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. The first 30 pages contain what must be one of the most shocking scenes…

A Haunting at Holkham

The thrilling new mystery from the bestselling author of Lady in Waiting and Murder on Mustique. Set during WWII in Holkham, think Downton A…

Fearsome Fairies

Haunting Tales of the Fae ‘You see – no, you do not, but I see – such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly,…

The Confusions of Young Toerless

The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy…

The Falling Thread

‘Super-assured … Wholly convincing lives, described and written with great limpid precision of language’ WILLIAM BOYD Manchester, the summ…

Dunfords Travels Everywheres

William Melvin Kelley’s final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of…

The Mare

‘Bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling’ Guardian When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay wi…

Don’t Cry

‘A writer of prodigious gifts’ Guardian Full of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don’t Cry are a testa…

The City of Mist

The last book by the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates…

Call of the Penguins

From the No.1 bestselling author of Away with the Penguins Meet the heroine everyone’s talking about . . . Fiercely resilient and impeccably…

Lily

A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer… Abandoned at the gates of a London par…

The Grace of Kings

Emperor Mapidere was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his peopl…

The Wall of Storms

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Dara is united under the Emperor Ragin, once known as Kuni Ga…

Blacksmith

Apprentice to Master: Tools & Traditions of an Ancient Craft Born from fire and forge, Blacksmith is an exploration into the life and pr…

Fabric

The Hidden History of the Material World How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India…

The War of Nerves

Inside the Cold War Mind A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than…

The First Kingdom: Britain in the age of Arthur

Britain in the age of Arthur The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known…

The Rise of Rome

A gripping account of the ascent of Rome – from agrarian backwater to capital of the world’s greatest empire. Starting with the founding myt…

How Life Imitates Chess

‘In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.’ For over twenty years, Garry Kasparov dominated the world of chess….

Dolphin Junction

When a wife leaves her husband under suspicious circumstances, he sets off in search for her, unprepared for the guilty secrets he’s about t…

House with No Doors

A creepy and atmospheric psychological thriller At first glance, Leonard Graves’ death was unremarkable. Sleeping pills, a bottle of vodka,…

Bread Ahead

The Expert Home Baker: A Masterclass in Classic Baking This stunning cookbook aims to transform you, no matter your experience, into an expe…

Three

Acid, Texture, Contrast – The Essential Foundations to Redefine Everyday Cooking Three looks at the magic elements that make a plate of food…

The Alcorithm

A revolutionary flavour guide to find the drinks you’ll love Discover your new favourite wines, beers, spirits and cocktails in this unique…

The Nordic Baker

Plant-Based Bakes and Seasonal Stories from a Kitchen in the Heart of Sweden In The Nordic Baker, Sofia Nordgren guides you through a year o…

A Cheesemonger’s Compendium of British & Irish Cheese

A Cheesemonger’s Compendium introduces 150 of the finest cheeses from across the British Isles. It is a perfect companion for all of us hook…

Murder in the Basement

When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity o…

Will

One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring boo…

Ready Player Two

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s va…

Let’s Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine

From the same team that created Let’s Eat France! comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively complete,…

Never

Expertly researched, visionary in scale and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from international number one bestseller Ken Folle…

The Way of the Cocktail

Japanese Traditions, Techniques, and Recipes With its studious devotion to tradition, craftsmanship, and hospitality, Japanese cocktail cult…

30 Minute Mowgli

Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen This is the food that Nisha Katona cooks at home: punchy and delicious Mowgli-style recipes th…

London Silenced

On Animals

‘How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, whe…

The Swan

A Biography The Mute Swan is not so much a bird, as a national treasure: the avian equivalent of Sir David Attenborough or the Queen. These…

Osebol

Voices from a Swedish Village Winner of Sweden’s prestigious August Prize Near the river Klaralven, snug in the dense forest landscape of no…

Palace of the Peacock

A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spir…

The Royal Game: A Chess Story

Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on…

Train Dreams

Staff Pick This portrait of the life of Robert Grainer, a railroad labourer at the turn of the 20th century, is the story of a changing Amer…

Rumpole’s Return

Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has retired to Florida with his…

Painting The Beauty Queens Orange

Women’s Lives in the 1970s The ‘70s wasn’t all glam rock and flares, punk and pogo-ing… In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who…

Youngman

Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man’s whole life, which reads like a celebratory comi…

The Heart of Things

An Anthology of Memory and Lament Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scot…

Slime: A Natural History

Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It…

News and How to Use It

What to Believe in a Fake News World A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or…

Freedom

How we lose it and how we fight back What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are? Nobel Peace Prize no…

The Late Sun

The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the coll…

Howdie-Skelp

A ‘howdie-skelp’ is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It’s a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon’s strik…

Symphonies for the Soul: Classical music to cure any ailment

Within the pages of this book lie musical prescriptions that offer comfort, solace and strength in the face of dark times. Whether you suffe…

Bengal Lancer

Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is…

Arthur The Always King LIMITED EDITION

SIGNED BOOKPLATED EDITION WITH LIMITED EDITION PRINT The definitive retelling of the legends of King Arthur, from Carnegie Medal-winner Kevi…

The Philosophy of an Explorer

16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than…

Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

‘Her detective novels are hilarious – less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spa…

Murder on a Winter’s Night: Ten Classic Crime Stories

In the bleak midwinter … murder awaits. The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you’re m…

The Strangers in the House

‘I’ve just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You’re going to have to deal with it’…

My Father’s Notebook

When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountai…

The Night Will Be Long

An addictive and nuanced narrative about conflict-rife Colombia. A boy witnesses a violent confrontation in a remote part of town in the sta…

Learwife

‘I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now…

Love in the Time of Bertie

Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. In Drummond Place gardens it seems that Olive has their futu…

The Movement

The Movement’s founding ideology emphasises women should be valued for their inner qualities, spirit, and character, not for their physical…

The Gardener SIGNED COPY

Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her…

When the Lights Go Out

Global temperatures are rising. The climate of the Abrams’ marriage is cooling. Emma is beginning to wonder whether relationships, like mort…

My Monticello

At a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of First Street, Charlottesville comes under attack…

The Greeks: A Global History

The Greeks is the story of a culture that has contributed more than any other to the way we live now in the West. It is a story that travels…

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be togethe…

The Babel Message

A Love Letter to Language A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point. Keith Kahn-Harris is…

Cathedrals of Steam

How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City London hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other c…

At Christmas We Feast

Festive Food Through the Ages For many people Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a turkey and trimmings, pudding and brandy butter. But…

The Greek Revolution

1821 and the Making of Modern Europe In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, there was one cause that ca…

The Western Front

A History of the First World War In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility…

Around the World in 80 Books

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’…

The Battle of London 1939-45

Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire The definitive social history of London in the Blitz, which transformed life in the capital beyond…

B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils

British author and illustrator Edward Carey presents a paean to connection at a time of isolation: a year of daily lockdown drawings posted…

The Naming of Cats

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell…

A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs

Tin Tin’s Snowy, Odysseus’s Argos, Darwin’s Polly, Mary Queen of Scots’s 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush… Behind every gre…

Fried Eggs and Rioja

What to Drink with Absolutely Everything From sofa suppers and comfort food to celebration meals and festive feasts, Victoria Moore helps yo…

The Latin American Cookbook

The most comprehensive and varied selection of recipes ever published from one of the most fascinating and diverse regions of the world – un…

Too Famous

The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious – Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting Barbed, witty, revealing and…

On Cats

An Anthology For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection…

Pity the Beast

Millennia ago, Ginny’s family farm was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand years hence, it’ll all be peacefully underwater. In th…

Brickmakers

Two young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the…

Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major…

Mistletoe Winter

Mistletoe Winter is a collection of essays on our environment, nature and wildlife, covering biodiversity, habitat conservation, rewilding a…

A Curious Boy

The Making of a Scientist What makes a scientist? Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about…

What Dogs Want

Let’s be honest, our pets may seem pretty straightforward, but as soon as you become an owner there are so many questions! What do my dog’s…

The New Sylva

A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century In 1664, the horticulturist and diarist John Evelyn wrote Sylva, the fi…

XPD

is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain’s reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting to…

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

‘The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world’ The Times December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept…

A Ghost In The Throat

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the dee…

Fall

The Mystery of Robert Maxwell A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the acc…

Rest in Pieces

The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses In the long run, we’re all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked t…

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2

The Pillars of Civilization The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari’s…

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

‘”I thought it might be fun for people to be able to a read a neuroscience book on the beach,” Barrett explains. But be warned: you may find…

Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe

You’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are ri…

On the Origin of Evolution

Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprece…

At Sixes and Sevens

How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of t…

The Most Important Comic Book on Earth

The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading envir…

The Dream of Europe

Travels in the Twenty-First Century How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the interna…

A Moroccan Trilogy

Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez The Tharaud brothers became unique eyewitnesses to history when summoned in 1917 from the Western Front to Morocco…

Snow

Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of…

Punishment of a Hunter

1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingl…

Serve the People!

A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary, world-class storyteller. Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, this i…

The Canvas of the World

Paris, 1900. Aileen Bowman arrives at the Exposition Universelle, where all the world has gathered to witness the birth of modernity. A jour…

A Guardian Angel Recalls

On the eve of the Second World War a public attorney, devastated because his Jewish lover has fled without him, runs over a young girl. He i…

Tell Me I’m Worthless

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. A…

Cosmogramma

In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by…

Femlandia

Miranda Reynolds has lost her home, her job and her husband – all thanks to an economic collapse that has brought America to its knees. The…

It Takes Two

We’ve all wanted to be someone else… What if someone else wanted to be you? Clem has often wished she could swap lives with someone. Her a…

The Most Precious of Cargoes

Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant compani…

The Manningtree Witches

Staff Pick A stunningly written and deeply evocative piece of historical fiction. I was gripped from the first page to last by the story of…

On Tyranny Graphic Edition

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and re…

Hitler’s American Gamble

Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between t…

Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Empe…

The Biscuit

The History of a Very British Indulgence Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps….

Athens: A History

Dominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, the ancient Greek city of Athens i…

Ask A Historian

50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know ‘If history informs our future, Greg Jenner is one of the best informants out ther…

Soldiers

Great Stories of War and Peace A stunning anthology of great stories of war and peace collected and edited by Max Hastings. Soldiers is a ve…

The Garden Book

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The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters

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Eight Improbable Possibilities

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Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

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The Black History Book

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How to Survive the Modern World

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The Owl and the Nightingale

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The Poetry of Horses

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These Great Athenians: Retold Passages for Seldom Heard Voices

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Cry of the Kalahari

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April in Spain

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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests

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The Book of Mother

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The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard

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The Inheritors

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Case Study

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Reality, and Other Stories

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Winter Flowers

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The Wood that Built London

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Empireland

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Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now

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Noble Ambitions

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Liquid History

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Aston Martin: Made in Britain

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Major Labels

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On The Road

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The Scorpion’s Head

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