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Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist...
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Author: George Monbiot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big, bold and beautifully written, his vision of a rewilded world is, well, truly captivating' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall How many...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
Author: Peter H. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire....
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 The definitive one-volume history of Christianity by one of the world's leading historians of religion Christianity, one of the...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Author: Emma Dabiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Author: Cathy O'Neil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Author: David Abulafia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Michael Sandel's Justice- What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 'Brilliant, mind-altering...Everyone should read this astonishing book' David Runciman, Guardian Contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Author: Richard H. Thaler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The renowned behavioural economist exposes the irrational tendencies in our thinking and illuminates the way to make clear,...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives
Author: Walt Odets Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A moving, humane and empathetic psychological exploration of gay men's emotional lives- through pain, trauma, love, loss, survival and...
A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals
Author: Millie Marotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A bold menagerie of the world's weird, wonderful and disappearing animals, perfect for young adventurers and budding conservationists We...
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Author: Jonathan C. Slaght Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest,...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Author: Joseph Henrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see...
The Bookseller's Tale
Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever...
Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses: The loveliest read of the year
Author: Carole Matthews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A gorgeous novel that will delight' Katie Fforde A heart-warming and poignant novel of romance, family and second chances, Paper Hearts...
The Bookshop
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local...
Surfacing
Author: Kathleen Jamie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2019 Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from...
Every Day is for the Thief
Author: Teju Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown...
This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE 'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New...
Homecoming
Author: Luan Goldie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 THE BEAUTIFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER AND AUTHOR OF WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED...
The Abstainer
Author, Ian McGuire Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 368 'Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times A man...
Set My Heart To Five
Author: Simon Stephenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure' Scotland on Sunday 'A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means...
Deepwater King (The Deepwater Trilogy, Book 2)
Author: Claire McKenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The sensational follow up to MONSTROUS HEART; a magical tale of intrigue on dark waters and a love story...
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION 'The kind of book that comes around only once a decade...Simply magnificent' Washington...
The Dream Weavers
Author: Barbara Erskine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay! 'Warmth, depth, mystery, magic...
Where Tigers Are at Home: A Novel
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Author: Jean-Marie Blas de Robles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 Winner of the Prix Medicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe...