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Jack and Jill: (Alex Cross 3)
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The third novel in James Patterson's worldwide bestselling series featuring Detective Alex Cross ____________________________________ 'No one gets this big...
Before She Disappeared: From the bestselling thriller writer
Author: Lisa Gardner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a gripping thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
Coffeeland: A History
Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
Author: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Author: Norman Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
Another Kyoto
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen
Author: K. M. Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Author: John Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back...
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live
Author: John Sellars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful lives What aspects...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism
Author: Paul Kildea Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music...
Lost Japan
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Author: Julia Quinn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Colin...
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...
Here's Looking At You
Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A laugh-out-loud read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of If I Never Met You Anna Alessi - history...
A Divided Loyalty: A Novel
Author: Charles Todd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "Todd's astute character studies . . . offer a fascinating cross section of postwar life. . . . A satisfying puzzle-mystery."...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
1914: The Year the World Ended
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...