21st Century History

This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re. Re , the 1994 album by the Mexican group Cafe Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object...

Readers love Bad Publicity ... 'My favourite contemporary romance book ever.' ***** 'Perfect for fans of Emily Henry ' ***** 'A book lover's dream romance' ***** 'It has warmth, charm,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'I've never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel' Jodi Picoult 'It emotionally wrecked me' **** 'Fabulous' ***** 'Breathtaking' **** 'Heart-breaking' ***** 'A truly...

The no-holds-barred autobiography from one of this country's greatest ever footballers, Steven Gerrard Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team,...

*Soft cover edition* The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Home to some of the finest sports writing of...

This is the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery - and secretive offshore tax havens are at the heart of the trouble. WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIAL Billionaire...

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...

A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks. The invasion...

A solo and cooperative skirmish wargame for investigating and battling the supernatural mysteries of the modern world. When Nightmares Come is a tabletop miniatures wargame about modern day monster hunting...

A gripping domestic psychological thriller, full of shocking family secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L. Taylor! 'Kept me up all night reading' 'Had me guessing until the...

***A Financial Times, TLS, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*** Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Thrilling and nail-biting, The Phoenix has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel. A deadly enemy will...

James Doty grew up in California, deeply poor, with an alcoholic father and an invalid mother who tried to commit suicide. His life was a dead end until the summer...

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries...

Don't miss the next Cristy Ward thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! A dead husband. A missing wife. Will they find her in time? Romy Kaplan has vanished from...

Molly the maid is used to being invisible. Now someone is watching her every move ... ----- *THE SPARKLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAID* As...

'A twisty tale of family complexities and high-risk secrets from an author who rarely disappoints' Daily Mail , Ones to Watch 'The answer is everyone! So many secrets and lies...

'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...

The stunning new thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. One down... A dark night in the isolated Scottish countryside. Nicholas Wilson, a prominent professor known for his...

He wrote in the 90's about the 2008 Banking Crash, The War on Terror, Transhumanist Agenda, Microchipping, the Cashless Society and more. In this Book he takes a look back...

Is Trump merely a boor and a misogynist - or is he a predator? During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape and subsequent allegations of...

From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a...

Fall in love with this feel-good tale of old secrets, new friendships and second chances from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Erica James. 'You won't want to put it down...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

Nation of Strangers aims to open a global conversation about our contemporary understanding of home, in the way How to Lose a Country did for the global rise of Fascism...

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things 'Heart-smashed' by the death of the mother she ran from at age...

Nation of Strangers aims to open a global conversation about our contemporary understanding of home, in the way How to Lose a Country did for the global rise of Fascism...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...

The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a...

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multi-generational portrait of life in rural Ireland from a bracing new talent in literary fiction Welcome to Ballyrowan. This sleepy corner of Ireland may seem tranquil...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent...

One man and his four-legged friends go to war in Afghanistan; a ten-year battle against enemies seen and unseen In Afghanistan, sometimes all that stands between coalition troops and death...

From London to Beijing to New York, art sales are booming, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and royals. In Seven...

Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor...

When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25th--and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met--the politics of the region...

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography,...

This book begins by looking at the peoples of Africa at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and goes on to study the commercial and ideological penetration of...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...

Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead. ------------------------------------------------ PICKED AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 BY ELLE , VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN,...

If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form...to make historical content into a philosophical truth" then it is the function of criticism to recover and to...

Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the...

Fearless, frank and very funny, Honeybee is the must-read novel for every woman 'A gorgeous celebration of female friendship' ELIZABETH DAY 'I love the way Dawn writes' MATT HAIG 'A...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...

'This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure... Reads like the latest blockbuster film... I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page' NetGalley review, You've...

The most up-to-date and well-informed book on the global financial crisis. We are living in the most uncertain financial environment in recent history. A quarter-century of reckless lending, asset stripping,...

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like...