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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...

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 city in the world. They range from the...

On Animals | 'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called He...

Black Mamba | Daddy, there's a man in our room... This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed....

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...

Pain. The Science of the Feeling Brain | Pain is a universal human experience, but we understand very little about the mechanics behind it. We hurt ourselves, we feel pain, we seek help from a profess...

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...

Milk Blood Heat | A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the wat...

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...

Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan | At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mist...

The Gypsy Goddess | When women take to protest, there is no looking back. Sometimes it is over working conditions, other times, perhaps, a strike for higher wages. And so, in a hungry, back-broken com...

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name | When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, ...

Limberlost | Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches – a far cry from lif...

The Good Doctor | Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hope...

The Natural Health Service. How Nature Can Mend Your Mind | In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took time off on ...

The Hidden Horticulturists. The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain’s Gardens | The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and...

Spearhead. An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II | At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – t...

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 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...

False Prophets. British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria | Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World Wa...

Azazeel | Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk’s journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Chu...

Mischling | It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comfo...

Noah's Child | It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Vil...

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...

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 ...

Vox Populi. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask | In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fas...

Adapt. How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions | How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature’s creations ...

Flames | A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his sister, Charlotte – who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named ...

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...

The Feral Detective | Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a la...

How to Stage a Coup. And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft | Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world a...

Endell Street. The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital | When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering s...

House of Stone | Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fire and Steam. A New History of the Railways in Britain | The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways’ vital role in changing the face ...

The Break | When Stella, a young mother in an Indigenous community, looks out her window one wintry evening and spots someone being attacked on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land ...

The Impostor | A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author. When Adam moves into an abandone...

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...

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...

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...

Histories of the Unexpected. The Romans | Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the R...

The Human Network. How We're Connected and Why It Matters | It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economi...

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...

Baking Cakesin Kigali | Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes to realize how much...

Crazy Rich Asians | The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan! When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in ...

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...

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...

Mouth to Mouth | A struggling author is stuck at the airport, his flight endlessly delayed. As he kills time at the gate, he bumps into a former classmate of his, Jeff, who is waiting for the same fli...

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...

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...

No! The Power of Disagreement in a World that Want | We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In this essential book, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wro...

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...

Disrupted. Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble | Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he r...

A Bit of a Stretch. The Diaries of a Prisoner | Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome...

Night for Day | A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood… Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Com...

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...

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 ...

Open. How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind | Humanity’s embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange – whether it’s goods, ideas or people – has led t...

The Hidden Half. The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything | Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is ‘The Hidden Half’ – those random, unknowable variables that...