An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review.
Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain i..
Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal st..
This title is translated by David Fernbach. The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years af..
A comprehensive and richly visual guide to more than 200,000 years of African history and cultures
Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world hist..
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When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children else..
When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and..
The future of work is not coding but caring - high-touch rather than high-tech. The fastest growing jobs revolve around cooking, cleaning and caring. And around half of all work is caring work done un..
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival...
Britain has become a nation of renters and landlords and building more housing is not the solution. In his radical new interpretation of the housing crisis lawyer Nick Bano proposes that it is rent no..
What does 'progress' mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms, can we make any headway at all in the face o..
The gut-wrenching, heroic story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.
On the morning of 10 December 2015, Australian surfer Owen Wri..
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'A riveting portrait'
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The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live
Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of \..
One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social divi..
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
From ce..
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022***
Did you know that we can lead longer and healthier lives by making simple changes right now?
Professor Rose Anne Kenny has 35 ..
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph
'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carre
'This is the mo..
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during..
Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Mike Livingston, author of Never Greater Slaughter, presents a new in..
New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence wi..
Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achiev..
'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a va..
A city drawn in sand.
Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did..
From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handfu..
The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for..
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a pol..
The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master
Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no..
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name...
A special collector's edition of this beautiful, thoughtful, bestselling gift book perfect for any person needing a little pick-me-up in today's world - now updated with 20 new illustrations reflectin..
An inspiring and revealing memoir about the relentless pursuit of dreams, and the highs and lows along the way, from one of the Black Caps' finest test cricketers.
Neil Wagner is one of the great..
'Poignant and compelling' - Lindsey Hilsum
'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas
Lebanon and the Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, journalist Dalal Mawad conducted a ser..
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times Style
A Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick
'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciousl..
A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**A Fin..
'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES
'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause ..
Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human' Michael Harris, author of Solitude
In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms and kitchens, All the Lo..
A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023
A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline.
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'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down.' - Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking
'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph
The man who ..
'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown.' -Pattie Boyd Harrison
'A revealing oral history of the forces that spurred the band's breakup.....
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison,..
'Everything Wharton-Malcolm does has the aim of helping people achieve the best version of themselves' Evening Standard
Think running isn't for you? Running coach Cory Wharton-Malcolm challenges ..
This handsome slipcase brings together the definitive biography and collected poems of Allen Curnow (1911-2001), widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the seco..
An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning rise in recent decades
Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people..
What altered states of consciousness-the dissolution of feelings of time and self-can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.
During extraordinary moments of consciousness-shock, meditative s..
Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five years the hosts of Alw..
*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour*
*A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*
'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world..
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss..
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday Times
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'Essential' Eliot Higgins
'Admirable' Ian Hislop
MY NAME IS MARIANNA SPRING AND SOME OF MY TROLLS SAY THEY WANT TO KILL ME
Threats and abuse litter my social media feeds. They infect my ev..