An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories..
The definitive photographic celebration of Ferrari's production cars as photographed by Maggi & Maggi, across 60 years of automotive excellence.
Performance, design and beauty have been the hallm..
An empowering, feminist guide to understanding and managing ADHD for women, written by a popular millennial doctor with ADHD.
An empowering, feminist guide to understanding and managing ADHD for ..
A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises.
From Covid-19 to runaway technology to climate change, we are currently living ..
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes
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A gorgeous gift edition of festive stories from France, from the publishers of A SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS, A GERMAN CHRISTMAS and AN ITALIAN CHRISTMAS
Joyeux Noel! Merry Christmas! These festive st..
A gorgeous gift edition of festive stories from Austria, Switzerland and Germany
From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festi..
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' - The Times
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner.
Travelling east, F..
Hello Mr. was founded by Ryan Fitzgibbon in 2012-over its ten-issue lifespan, the beloved and groundbreaking indie magazine became the first home for some of the most prestigious queer voices of a gen..
Lately, everybody is talking about medicinal cannabis. Once a forbidden plant, it has become hard to distinguish between good and bad information about medicinal and therapeutic cannabis.
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If you are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, conventional medications aren't always effective - and they often have disturbing side-effects. What if there was a completely different treatment?
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A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games.
Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with calculators inspired Gunpei Yokoi to create the Game & Watch. Eve..
The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state
Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tell..
Gyles Brandreth's witty guide to British history, from Stonehenge and Boudicca to Brexit and Megxit, in delightful 60-second instalments - now in paperback
The story of us - without hesitation, r..
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups).
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary a..
A spine-chilling illustrated history
Discover the spine-chilling history of ghosts and the supernatural across the world in this stunningly illustrated guide.
A History of Ghosts, Spirits a..
In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the collapse of the..
Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library '100 Maps' series, this new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-wes..
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes...
We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious list of battles and generals and c..
Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.
'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den
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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di..
'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors
'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museum..
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES
From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true hist..
An authoritative and concise history of witchcraft from the ancient world up to the present day.
Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes ..
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects ..
FROM THE TEAM BEHIND BBC RADIO 4'S AWARD-WINNING NATURE AND COMEDY SERIES NATURE TABLE
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A housefly buzzes in the key of F?
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A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set..
'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - Observer
When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg whi..
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller
From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.
In A Lethal Legacy, Fin Dwyer charts 2..
A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.
'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne H..
ACT founding father Steven Hayes shows us how to apply the principles of psychological flexibility to live more vital, more connected and healthier lives
Over the last 35 years, Steven C. Hayes ..
'Matt has a hilarious way of articulating an important message. Highly valuable advice for anyone.' - KIERAN READ
Why is it that no matter how good things get, we still feel dissatisfied? A few y..
A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey.
What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, pre..
A Lifetime of Beekeeping Mistakes covers all the basics of managing successful hives from buying in bee stocks and equipment to record keeping, establishing and growing colonies. It considers the meri..
There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed writers, is a descendant of th..
The No. 1 international bestseller, with a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis, who made headlines in 2021 when he kissed Lidia's Auschwitz identification tattoo.
The unforgettable, moving true..
A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time
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'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES
'The trivia book of the season . ..
'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning aut..
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian
'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer
'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessnes..
The words of a man. The message of a people.
Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of ..
Meteorites are generally considered to be bizarre and exotic space junk that you only ever come across in museums. But the reality is very different. Meteorites are generally harmless, with the except..
'My name is Renee Salt. I am 94 years old, I am a witness to history. I am a survivor.
This is my attempt to make sense of a story which I can scarcely believe happened to me. Some of these..
It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tale..
In 2015, Juno Carey left her job as a midwife, burnt out, frustrated and looking for a better way to deliver care to women. And then she found work that she loves, that brings her satisfaction and the..
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landma..
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landma..
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..