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The Equations of Life. How Physics Shapes Evolution | Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is. The puzzles of life astound and confus...

The Mystery of Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic p...

Children of Paradise | When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift ...

How to Get Over Being Young. A Rough Guide to Midlife | A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and misadventures through the d...

The Age of Islands. In Search of New and Disappearing Islands | New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or...

Railways and The Raj. How the Age of Steam Transformed India | India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed until 1853 but, by 1929, 41,000 miles of track served the country. Ho...

Green Philosophy. How to think seriously about the planet | The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing f...

The Prospector | On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister – sampling the pleasures of privilege, exp...

Bibliomaniac. An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain | Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due ...

The Weight of Him | How do you carry on, when you lose someone you love? Big Billy Brennan's family is reeling from loss, his marriage is a partnership in name alone, and eating is the only thing gett...

The Black Mirror. Fragments of an Obituary for Life | A deeply moving and startlingly original celebration of everyday life, by one of Britain's leading thinkers and writers. Inspired by E. M. Forster...

The Internet is Not the Answer | In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our liv...

Blood Knots. Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing | As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him, waited...

The Secret Royals. Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana | For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, fr...

The Raven's Nest | Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she ...

The Warrior and the Prophet. The Epic Story of the Brothers Who Led the Native American Resistance | Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was...

Freedom to Think. The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds | Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump t...

Deep River | At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are ...

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance | In the spring of 1914, renowned German photographer August Sander takes a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, ca...

Sloths. A Celebration of the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammal | A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth. In public estimation, sloths have undergone an asto...

The Insect Crisis. The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World | When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw a butterfly? All these normal occurre...

The French Art of War | 1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to avoid his girlfriend, he gradually destroys hi...

The Dinner | An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner. They need to discuss their teenage sons. The boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on CCTV. They remain unidentified - exce...

In a Strange Room | A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handso...

Thief | One lazy summer, Suzanne escapes her life in the city for a long holiday in the countryside. She rents a cabin in the woods, and places a personal ad in the newspaper: "Great kisser, good list...

Rome's Sacred Flame | Rome, AD 63. Vespasian has been made Governor of Africa. Nero, Rome's increasingly unpredictable Emperor, orders him to journey with his most trusted men to a far-flung empire in...

Orfeo | Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab – the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in the most surprising p...

The Pinch. How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back | In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amas...

New World, Inc. The Story of the British Empire’s Most Successful Start-Up | In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it h...

Hot Air. The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial | Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it...

The Prime Ministers We Never Had. Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn | Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would...

The Lost Gutenberg. Obsession and Ruin in Pursuit of the World’s Rarest Books | The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanati...

Seeing Red | Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen finally occurs: her...

Last Man in Tower | 21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tow...

The Trial of Henry Kissinger | Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor ...

The Journey Matters. Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style | What was it really like to take the LNER’s Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King’s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS...

The Prime Ministers. Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson | A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK’s role in the modern world – and what makes them special – by a ...

How Death Becomes Life. Notes from a Transplant Surgeon | A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua...

Sedated. How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis | A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire ...

Whole Earth Discipline | The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do...

All Along the Echo | First Voice: Why are we listening? Second Voice: I dunno, I mean, what else is there to do? Tony Cooney, a local-radio DJ, spends his days on air, talking to the listeners of Cork...

Head First. A Psychiatrist's Stories of Mind and Body | What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective - something of the mind? In this profound colle...

Eight White Nights | A powerfully original novel of modern love by the author of Call Me By Your Name. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces ...

The Rain Heron | Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading – and forgetting. But when a young soldier c...

The Missionary Position. Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice | In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman’s mission to help the world’s p...

Nocturnal Animals | The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood a...

The Rise of the Outsiders. How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way | Discover why outsiders from Trump to Corbyn are succeeding like never before - and what this means for you. In recent years, voters ha...

Foreign Bodies | The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estran...

Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit. What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis | Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy carbon offsets when you fly? Or recycl...

Tony and Susan | The car shrieked and stopped. Around its red and white light a cloud of smoke rose and dissolved. A door opened. A man got out, stood at the edge of the shoulder, looked back, a shado...

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 - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters...

The Potter's Hand | In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah’s nephew Tom jou...

Gathering Evidence | With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel...

Lost Property | In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in a dark wood, despairing at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indifference. In an attempt to understand her co...

The Limit. Life and Death in Formula One's Most Dangerous Era | 10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the big...

Dead in the Water. Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry | Inside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and ...

Kill. Redacted | Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack on a London train. Since then, he has been seeing a therapist to help him come to terms with his grief – and his anger. He can’t get over t...

The Curse of Bigness. How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World | We’re three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and ...

Wings Over Water. The Story of the World’s Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire | Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, t...

We Run the Tides | Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches...

The Incorrigible Optimists Club | Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini – amateur photographer and compulsive reader – is drawn to the hum of the local bis...

Inside Steve's Brain. Business Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Man Who Saved Apple | Steve Jobs was an American visionary who immeasurably altered the way the world uses technology. From the Apple II to ...

Led by Donkeys. How Four Friends with a Ladder Took on Brexit | The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s hypocris...

The Twelve Caesars | One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were eleva...