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F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow: A True Story
Author: Action Bronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 An entirely original and empowering memoir meets self-help guide from the bestselling author, rapper, artist, and chef Action Bronson From the...
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance
Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...
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...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future
Author: Indra Nooyi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A must-read for working women and the men who work with us, love us and support us' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Surprising...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
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 Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club
Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...
Solid Ivory
Author: James Ivory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
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...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year
Author: Bobby Gillespie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 ROUGH TRADE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class...
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in...
Why Patti Smith Matters
Author: Caryn Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose....
Art of Protest: What a Revolution Looks Like
Author: De Nichols Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "Start making. Start being the change you want to see in this world." De Nichols From the psychedelic typography used in...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Karl Marx, Friedrech Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384Ð322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was a critical skill...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Meditations of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121Ð180 CE) draw on Stoic philosophy to find ways of dealing with...
The Voyage Of Their Life
Author: Diane Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 In August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded, clapped-out vessel in Marseilles to face an uncertain future in Australia...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was eighty-five years old, the historian Eric...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
Author: Guillem Balague Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'A must-read for anyone who's doubted Pep's influence, from handing the power to Bar a's homegrown crop to never...
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
Author: Carly Simon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Author: Professor Margaret MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times 10 Best Book of 2020 Sunday Times best book for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick...
The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138)
Author: David Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that...
Look At This If You Love Great Art: A critical curation of 100 essential artworks * Packed with links to further reading, listening and viewing to take your enjoyment to the next level
Author: Chloe Ashby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history
Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
Our Woman in Moscow
Author: Beatriz Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Don't miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future
Author: Ian Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or...
Amazing Expeditions: Journeys That Changed The World
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Throughout history, adventurers have always wondered what is beyond the next mountain, ocean, river... or even planet. Explorers head out to...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty
Author: Mary Hollingsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many...
How to Trace Your Family Tree in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
Author: Ruth Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Every age and every social strata has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the...