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Triggers. Sparking Positive Change and Making It Last | In business - as in life - the right behaviours matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do a...

Murder on a Winter's Night. Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas | In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits. The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime storie...

Keeping On Keeping On | A concise collection of Alan Bennett's latest diaries - and more. Following the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On contains Bennett'...

Murder Takes a Holiday. Classic Crime Stories for Summer | However far you travel, trouble has a way of finding you out ... The summer holidays are a chance to escape from it all, to shrug off the tro...

Smut. Two Unseemly Stories | Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he s...

The Lady in the Van | In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Be...

The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth II What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect...

A Spot of Folly. Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem | Previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense. Introduction from Sophie Hannah. New and uncollected tal...

Uncommon Knowledge. Extraordinary Things That Few People Know | Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized exp...

A Voyage for Madmen | Already a classic among sailors, Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world. It l...

The Celts. A Sceptical History | A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations. Who were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical...

Murder at Christmas. Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | A rich collection of classic Christmas mysteries Christmas is a season of overindulgence. For most of us, that means an extra mi...

Confessions of a Bookseller | "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving...

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World | A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus. From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes ...

The Forager's Calendar. A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests | Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain, and you are sure to see many wild species th...

Murder in Midsummer. Classic Mysteries for the Holidays | Murder never takes a holiday A rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man. A sun-drench...

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops | In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite a...

How Bad Are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything | Ten years on from first publication, a new edition of this invaluable and entertaining guide that shows just what effect everything has on car...

Murder by the Seaside. Classic Crime Stories for Summer | Take the holiday of a lifetime with history's greatest mystery writers It's the height of summer. As the heat shimmers on the streets and ice ...

Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason | Marx's Capital explained by its greatest expositor in simple, understandable terms. Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern e...

Babel. Around the World in 20 Languages | A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand? If you were to master the ...

Are We Having Fun Yet? | Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of her life, by her side. But trampling all over this dream is a group of wild ...

Four Stories | Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time. Like everything Bennett does, these stories ...

The Concise 48 Laws Of Power | The perfect gift book for the power hungry (and who doesn't want power?) at an excellent price. This is the concise edition of an international bestseller. At work, in r...

Confessions of a Bookseller | A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" S...

Dancing with the Octopus | "Extraordinary" Kate Moss"electric' lam Sissy'burning' Julia SamuelOmaha One winter day in 1978, when Deborah Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint, shov...

Murder in the Falling Snow. Ten Classic Crime Stories | Murder is best served ... ice cold It's only the afternoon, but dusk is already falling and a log fire burning in the grate. Outside, frost coat...

Medieval Bodies. Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages | A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, loved by critics and readers alike. Just like us, medieval men and women wor...

Murder in a Heatwave. Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays | Murder never takes a break As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nightfall li...

Murder in Midwinter. Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas | Murder served ice-cold... Midwinter. As snow falls softly outside and frost sparkles on tree branches, it's time to curl up before a roar...

The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now h...

The Lies That Bind. Rethinking Identity | From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarised world are riddled w...

Uniquely Human. A Different Way of Seeing Autism | Winner of the Autism Society of America's Dr. Temple Grandin Award Autism is a different way of being human: it offers possibilities and opportunitie...

Fabric. The Hidden History of the Material World | A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us. Bestselling author Victori...

Great State. China and the World | China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite ...

Driving Over Lemons. An Optimist in Andalucia | Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Span...

The Checklist Manifesto | THE GAME-CHANGING BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEING MORTAL Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the ...

The Unpublished David Ogilvy | irst collected by his devoted family and colleagues as a 75th birthday present, The Unpublished David Ogilvy collects a careers worth of public and private communication...

The Art of Logic | For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng...

The Peter Principle | 'The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.' - New York Times 'The classic book which warns of the dangers of over-promotion' The Times In a hierarchy, every employee rises to ...

Growth Hacker Marketing | Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your firs...

The Art of Rivalry | This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The ...

Tolstoy. A Russian Life | In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the worlds media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long lif...

Get Out of My Life | Teenagers are difficult people, and anyone who has their own needs help. Witty, pleasant and truly insightful, "Get Out of My Life" is now aware of how to deal with everything fro...

Women and Power. A Manifesto | Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels l...

The Diary of a Bookseller | Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there '...

Minor Feelings | Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down' - AnOther, Books You Should Read This Year Код номенклатуры: ORS76047135580...

Create Space | A Financial Times Business Book of the Month Take control of your life and create space to succeed We're used to feeling stressed, rushed and overwhelmed. At work and at home there are ...

The Daily Stoic | Where can you find joy? What's the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic...

Complications | This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to b...

Only The Paranoid Survive | The President and CEO of Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, reveals how to identify and exploit the key moments of change in any industry that generates either drastic f...