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The Weight of Angels
A gloriously reimagined life of Oscar Wilde from the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible Furies 'John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels...
Through the Leopard's Gaze
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze , Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten...
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful...
The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks
Critically acclaimed, candid, unsparing, surprising and darkly funny, this memoir of a 1970s upbringing by the much-loved broadcaster Justin Webb is as much a portrait of that strange decade as...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life . Writing and acting...
The Sphinx: The revelatory biography of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of
** The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday Times 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account...
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with...
The Ophelia Girls: An Immersive, Intoxicating Read
'An immersive, intoxicating summer read with the long-lasting feel of a classic' - Molly Aitken, author of The Island Child 'A potent blend of art, beauty, awakening desire and mortality...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free
'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war ... an astonishing book ... a wonderful story'...
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD** D....
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test in
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024 'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard...
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family
Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially,...
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
From the multi-million-selling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in...
But Enough About Me
In But Enough About Me , legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert...
The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy in Her Own
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as having '"tons of guts"' -CLARE MULLEY, author of...
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern
History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film:
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader...
Farewell to Eden
An epic and profound new novel from Sebastian Faulks, author of the Sunday Times bestseller BIRDSONG The epic and profound new historical novel set in post-World War Two Britain, from...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....
Orwell: The New Life
Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January
This book showcases the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago's Chess Studios in January 1969. Taken by the only photographer present, some of these photos were originally shown on...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today
Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolutionaries to action? What were they...
The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work...
The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and
A complete account of the British maritime contribution to victory in World War II. For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence...
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle
More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle....
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest Man...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
"A gripping and powerful account of what prison is like and what it takes to make it through... Make sure you read it." Kimberley Chambers Widely known in the criminal...
A Child in the Storm: A Mother Locked Away, a Daughter Taken. The
A cry in the dark. A missing mother. A lifetime's search for the truth... The gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The Girl in the Letter is a...
Around the World in 200 Globes: Stories of the Twentieth Century
The Dutch architect Willem Jan Neutelings (co-founder of Neutelings Riedijk Architects) is known as the architect of, among other things, the MAS in Antwerp and the Gare Maritime in Brussels'...
Very Ordinary Seaman: The unforgettable account of British naval
First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates - with humanity, humour and the authority of experience - lower-deck life in the British navy,...
A Beautiful Way to Die
From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou . 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE...
Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...
1977: How Progressive Rock Defied Punk
In this informative, readable and for punk fans at least annoying book, Kevan Furbank looks at the progressive rock bands and albums that left punk reeling in the moshpit. To...
A Case of Mice and Murder: 'A delight from first page to last' Sunday
' A delight from first page to last ' SUNDAY TIMES ' I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joy ' S.J....
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
'An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid' -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Chrome Dome 1960-68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation
In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome...
Victory in Australia: The Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes
CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR - SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET SOCIETY - MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Meticulously researched and unputdownable... splendidly atmospheric' - THE TIMES 'A wonderful book... an...
1970s Jazz Fusion
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. The once derided...
The Witch's Daughter
'A spellbinding tale of love, lust, magic and betrayal in Imperial Russia... I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run....
Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began...
Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported...
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times
How to be Real tackles one of the most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world that is so troubling and confusing? We are constantly being told that...
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Kharmi...
Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire
Rome - Urbs Roma : city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How...