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Well Adorned Home: Making Luxury Livable
Author: Cathy Kincaid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Known for her carefully nuanced colour palettes and attention to detail, Cathy Kincaid creates warm and gracious interiors. Her worldly taste...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World...
Superbugs: Deadly Microbes and the Extraordinary Race for a Cure: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
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Author: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, New York...
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...
The Berlin Shadow: Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport
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Author: Jonathan Lichtenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son....
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry
Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You
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Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
Head to Toe Knits: 35 Hats, Scarves, Gloves and Socks You'Ll Love to Knit
Author: Bronwyn Lowenthal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 With hats, scarves, neckwarmers, gloves, armwarmers, bags, belts, legwarmers and socks to choose from, you'll find the perfect piece for any...
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the...
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa
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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Author: Bill Streever Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty,...
Voyager: Travel Writings
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Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "Banks's narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of...
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Do I Feel Better Yet?
Author: Madeleine Trebenski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 If you've ever expressed even the slightest bit of dissatisfaction with the current state of your life, you've inevitably gotten the...
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...
The Insomnia Diaries: How I learned to sleep again
Author: Miranda Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Telegraph readers' best book of the year A Financial Times readers' best 2021 summer book 'A powerful new book' -...
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico...
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
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Author: David F Dufty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create "Phil," a...
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Fran Lebowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin...
NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet
Author: Piers Bizony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 196 Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps...
A Noise Downstairs
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Author: Linwood Barclay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
Stork Mountain
Author: Miroslav Penkov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Culture, religion, and ideology collide in the mountains of Bulgaria in this...
Here Lies Hugh Glass
Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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Author: Matthew B Crawford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence,...
Isadora
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Author: Amelia Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray's breakout novel delivers an incredibly imaginative...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Author: Kurt Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Award-winning psychologists Daniel Wegner and Kurt M. Gray invite you to consider how you determine whom and what has a mind...
All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...
The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Author: Kerry Daynes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Enthralling and terrifying. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND is a chilling glimpse into a world of miscreants, monsters and the...
Summer at Buttercup Beach: A gorgeously uplifting and heartwarming romance
Author: Holly Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This summer everything is about to change on Hope Island. The sand is warm, the sea is sparkling and a second...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Black Drop
Author: Leonora Nattrass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Black Drop is a joy from start to finish... Jago is a very sympathetic hero, with all his flaws, virtues and...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Author: Rabih Alameddine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Favorite novel of...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...