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Pentridge: Voices from the Other Side
Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever. Members of...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...
The Underground Sea
The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...
The Underground Sea
The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and...
Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning
The visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth...
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...
Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy
Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female...
No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality
History is dominated by the A-list deaths - Queens beheaded, Archdukes assassinated. But what about everyone else? How did ordinary people through history prepare for the end, depart this life,...
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend
'Everything a reader could desire: wit, passion, mystery, brilliant detective work, a love of rare books, a deep dive into literary history and, best of all, the restoration of reputation...
Hostels, homes, museum
During the apartheid years in South Africa, hostels and compounds were built to house migrant labour. One such hostel was Lwandle, some 40 kilometres outside Cape Town. Literally translated from...
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday
Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside - and sharing their beauty and unsung history across social media - Luke Sherlock is bringing English history and...
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain. By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to...
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain. By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to...
Loach on Loach: Updated edition
'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of The Last Colony WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD The story of leprosy is the...
The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of...
The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change
Why is playing games a universal human instinct? Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations? And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more...
The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change
Why is playing games a universal human instinct? Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations? And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...
The Windsor Legacy: A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal and Survival
In an age where resilience is essential The Windsor Legacy delivers an enthralling narrative of inspiration and royal intrigue. Penned by Robert Jobson, a Sunday Times and New York Times...
A Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens
Garden and social historian Advolly Richmond (of Gardener's World) unravels the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens. Have you ever wondered where your favourite garden flowers came...
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social,...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we...
The Autists: women on the spectrum
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as...
How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...
How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human
Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story...
Harem: the World Behind the Veil
"I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha," writes Alev Lytle Croutier. "People around me often whispered things about harems; my own...
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The instant New York Times
A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten...
Rubik's: 50 Years of the World's Most Famous Cube
A vibrant visual celebration of the iconic cube. The Rubik's (R) Cube was created in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architecture professor. Rubik later used the Cube as a...
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - 'The first new Beatles story in
'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN 'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into...
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959
The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been...
Arabs in History
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern...
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law - A Hidden History
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024 'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian...
'Exterminate All The Brutes'
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from...
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2024 The border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. But it...
The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW
The Library that Made Me celebrates 200 years of the State Library of NSW - its evolution, its remarkable collection and its people. The Library has earned its enduring place...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy investigates the modern concept of "tribes" and how New Tribalism has pernicious effects on the health of our society. TRIBES will explore ways in...
Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."-HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Founded by Edward III in...
Unrespectable Radicals?: Popular Politics in the Age of Reform
In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal...
Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning
Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.In...
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911
Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 provides a unique insight into the diversity of life in China during the last imperial dynasty. Through the lives of the Chinese people-from the...
Scottish Clans and Tartans: 150 Tartans Illustrated in Full Colour
The book titled Scottish Clans and Tartans: 150 Tartans Illustrated in Full Colour by the author Ian Grimble. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
White Tears/Brown Scars
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth...
Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City
The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow's famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype's enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed...