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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...

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...

To the Edge of the World. The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway | Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander II...

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...

Looking for Theophrastus. Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher | Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented scien...

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...

Hard Choices. The Making and Unmaking of Global Britain | After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous foreign...

Diary of a Murderer. And Other Stories | Kim Byeongsu is losing his mind. Quite literally. He keeps forgetting the little things in life, like basic words, whether or not he has a dog, the last time h...

Pilgrims | 1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew into her hat and show off at church. A poor, ragged villager is convinced his be...

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 ...

Babylon. Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization | In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Pe...

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...

Love, Poverty and War. Journeys and Essays | Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurd...

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...

Motherthing | Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Nervous System | A young woman struggles to finish her PhD on stars and galaxies. Instead, she obsessively tracks the experience of her own body, listening to its functions and rhythms, finally locati...

The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else. The Ultimate A-Z of Bizarre Information | A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows. Most...

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...

My Sister, the Serial Killer | When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a ...

Desert | Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour’s tribe – the Blue Men – are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on ...

Playing the Enemy. Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation | As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks faced New Zealand’s all-conquering All Blacks, more w...

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...

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 Diver's Clothes Lie Empty | From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a tensely drawn, spellbinding literary thriller. In Vendela Vida’s taut and me...

In the Camps. Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony | In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based o...

Under Pressure. Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls | Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of...

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...

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...

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...

The Garments of Court and Palace. Machiavelli and the World that He Made | The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regar...

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...

Mozart in the Jungle. Sex, Drugs and Classical Music | From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has been playin...

Sourdough | Lois Clary is a software engineer. She codes all day and collapses at night into her sofa, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the local takeaway from which she orders di...

The Butchers | A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the w...

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...

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...

Reamde | cross the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T’Rain – an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in Chi...

The Truth About Lies. A Taxonomy of Deceit, Hoaxes and Cons | Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words f...

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...

Last Child in the Woods. Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder | Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, collecting bugs, picking wildflowers, running through...

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 ...

Operation Wandering Soul | In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band – a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapi...

Numb and Number. How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life | Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, ...

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 ...

Damascus | ‘We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?’ In a far corner of...

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 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...

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...

Red April | The international prize-winner: A potent exploration of Peru, told as a noirish, hard-boiled serial killer novel, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics serie...

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...

Blood, Class and Empire. The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship | Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America’s “special relationship” with Britain. B...

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 ...

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 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...

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...