Is your anxiety running? Well, you better go catch it!
Adult anxiety is off its leash again. Sylvie Swenni's A Pet Named Anxiety, featuring illustrations by Paula Bossio, is a book of lighthearte..
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no hi..
'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six d..
The origin story of our modern oil age
Petroleum has always been used by humans- as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its ex..
We're experiencing change at the fastest rate in human history, but it's also the slowest that we'll experience for the rest of our lives. The reality is that the world is moving faster than we're ev..
Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries, the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a..
On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south Lond..
The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a sho..
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final years
A Private Spy s..
'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph
'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping
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An acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.
Global demand for power is doublin..
Tracing the shifts and moods of four seasons along Scotland's River Tweed, Andrew Douglas-Home weaves a story of a close relationship with nature and one of its most iconic denizens; the salmon. Threa..
Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever.
Not anymore! From the first women's football team in Britain to pirates and lesbian Avengers, via countless love le..
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one..
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar's deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernoby..
Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organizers, and ..
An expert in nutrition and the gut reveals what inflammation is, why it lies behind many modern diseases and what we can all do to help combat it
Inflammation has traditionally been thought of as..
China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto.
'Read this and be dazzled by its contemporaneity' Mike Davis
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'All a trainee needed to feel - could not help feeling - was that their feet were on the decks of something pretty big, and change was happening all around them just by the motion that happened when t..
An essential reference work for any student studying psychology for the first time, A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience (Seventh Edition) provides over 2,500 definitions of complex c..
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
'A real achievement' New Statesman
'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxfo..
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life
A healthy mind knows how to hope, hanging on tenaciously to the reasons to keep going.
A healthy mind resists unfair comparison..
In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly withoutmoney. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. Inthe proces..
The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.
Almost sixty contributors from a range..
Channel your inner Zendaya and learn more about her journey to superstardom with this inspiring guide packed with empowering wisdom, facts and quotes from the global style icon
Don't be afraid..
'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper
'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman
'Could one..
*AS HEARD ON STEPHEN BARTLETT'S DIARY OF A CEO*
* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *
'I wish he could be editor of the world!' GRAHAM NORTON
'Courageously truthful..
Have you heard? Sitting is the new smoking. We're sitting longer than we ever have before: adults average nine hours of sitting a day, while children spend almost as much time sitting in front of a sc..
The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck-an Episcopal priest-and his team's history-making summit of Denali.
In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the ta..
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a re..
A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A truly important book.' MEGAN RAPINOE'Hardhitting and clear sighted.' THE TIMES'Impassioned . . . joyous.' SPECT..
Did you know:
-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)
-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive
-The '12 days of Christmas' son..
Create beautiful botanical artworks, engage with the natural world around you, and take pleasure in the changing seasons with A Year of Watercolour.
Award-winning and bestselling artist an..
Jonny Trunk and FUEL present A-Z of Record Shop Bags - a publication celebrating the humble record store bag.
This exhaustive collection of the record shop bag provides a unique perspective of re..
Telling the story of the infamous studios through the eyes of all those who have walked through its doors, including much unpublished material.
With a foreword by Paul McCartney
'It's semi-d..
In this book we have gathered the three great pillars to become a collage artist. Inside you will find three chapters: The A of collage: brief introduction with a review of the precursors of this tech..
While feminists in the Global North have been fighting to keep abortion legal, in countries across the Global South activists are working to bring self-managed medical abortion - abortion pills - ..
From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights.
Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either 'anti-abortion' or 'pro-choice',..
"I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person," Robert Gl ck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of "the new narrative," recently told t..
A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists - many underrecognized and overlooked - from the last 50 years
Though the Stonewall Riots might now be short..
'The first time around these pieces were not widely heard or read. A roomful of festival-goers in Sydney or Penang or Ballarat could well have heard me hold forth on the subject of Enid Blyton, say, o..
The hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan. Over ten years we follow Chris Broad as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world's most myster..
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the mos..
In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KG..
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.
Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly ..
A beautifully presented collection of the very best in UK adventure, this book is designed to change the way people view the UK by showcasing the possibilities for extraordinary experiences we have ri..
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter..
A NYT best-selling doctor and TikToker offers a collection of quick-read insights to help a newly diagnosed generation understand their ADHD
With a new wave of adult ADHD diagnoses sweeping the w..