Sort by:
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and...
Paris: The Memoir
Updated edition including new materialHeiress. Party girl. Problem child. Model. Reality star. Self-created. Icon.""The future belongs to girls who refuse to do as they're told." Heiress. Party girl. Problem child....
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's...
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir
An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema- building an opera house in the middle...
What's Your Era?: A celebration of Taylor Swift
As Taylor Swift releases her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poet's Department, catch up on all her previous eras through the ultimate fan book. Are you a Fearless enthusiast or...
Woman Uninterrupted
Yarns on a life lived at a million miles, from beloved broadcaster, podcaster and go-getter Brodie Kane 'A romp through glorious (and gross) adventures, Brodie writes as if you're her...
Bridgerton's Bath
Bridgerton is the runaway Netflix success that has captured the hearts and imaginations of its biggest ever global audience. Producers Chris Van Dusen and Shonda Rhimes have ripped up the...
More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books
Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books-publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects...
Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol, and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era
Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rites to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort ancient communities. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written texts, Donovan Ochs broadens the...
Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world's greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic,...
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna
Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus...
Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West
Author: Jeffery PaineFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 532g, 288 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2004The colorful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles
Author: Charlotte McLarenFormat: Hardback, 139mm x 190mm, 400g, 144 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2021A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and...
Reversing Into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990
Author: Andrew KrivineFormat: Hardback, 222mm x 282mm, 2000g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2021Reversing into the Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990 is a unique and fascinating book of graphic...
In the Black Fantastic
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent....
Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters
The book includes examples from the 1960s through to the 1980s, but focuses on posters produced during Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign initiated in 1985. These posters attempted to sober up Soviet...
Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon is Behind Us
This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of crisis. In the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal...
Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the Future of the Past
Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today's world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and...
Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2023
WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023: PUZZLES AND HUMOURWhether it was Harry talking about his todger in his controversial autobiography, or celebrities from Gary Lineker to Phillip Schofield and...
A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
Stephen "Steve-O" Glover-social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass-delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be...
Now is Better
Author: Stefan Sagmeister Format: Other book format Number of Pages: 264 Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving. Initially...
Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While 'fat' describes the size and shape of bodies - their appearance - our negative reactions to corpulence also depend on something...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics
Author: Douglas Wolk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Magnificently marvellous' - Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of...
Cinema Speculation
Author: Quentin Tarantino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first...
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking
How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
'Thoughtful' Guardian Best Politics Books of 2020'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author...
Great TED Talks: Innovation: An unofficial guide with words of wisdom from 100 TED speakers
This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide.With quirky graphics and memorable quotes, Great TED Talks: Innovation will challenge your thinking, open your...