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An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
Author: Florence Hazrat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List
Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging...
My Name Is Why
Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest...
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year
Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...
Making it Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now
Author: Linda Nochlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A selection of key essays by one of the most influential voices in art history, including seven previously unpublished pieces. This...
Unprotected: A Memoir
Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...
Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames
Author: Malcolm Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper 'Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells...
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...
Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
Author: Adam Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review. Gathering...
Dior: New Looks
Author: Jerome Gautier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Published to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the world's greatest couture houses, this gorgeous book combines Christian Dior's classics...
Infidelity and Other Affairs
Author: Kate Legge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom.' Annabel Crabb 'Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and...
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship
Author: Andy Friend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage
Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books
Author: Brian Lake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 126 From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful...
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable
Author: Nigel Farndale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on,...
The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud
Author: Dan Good Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Imagine if you could see the playbook that returned a struggling tech empire to the top of the tech leaderboard. The...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched,...
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy
Author: Supriya Vani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Now in paperback with a new afterword, Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SIX MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SOURCE FOR THE HIGHEST-GROSSING WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME. The #1 New York Times...
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
Author: Tracy Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men...
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
Author: Alberto Angela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI
Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
Author: David de Jong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN...
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine
Author: Owen Matthews Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...