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Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
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 Way of the Samurai
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
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 Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
The Queen
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles
Author: Charlotte McLaren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and fashion icon who has broken...
The Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt
Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a...
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...
After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs...
Women in the War
Author: Lucy Fisher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021'...
Firestarter: Me, Cricket and the Heat of the Moment
Author: Ben Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Ben Stokes is not cast in the same mould as the vast majority of English cricketers. Fiery, combative, gladiatorial...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe
Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The End of an Earring
Author: Pam St Clement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to...
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...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life
Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays
Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
Louis: My Story So Far
Author: Louis Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics. In...
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir
Author: Rosie Mercado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Latina superstar and daytime television host, Rosie Mercado, tells the story of her incredible life. When Rosie Mercado was only nineteen,...
A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism
Author: Meredith Hinds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Teach your child to walk in faith, act justly, and lead with kindness and humility with this 365-day devotional for kids....
Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons
Author: Hunter Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The nation has commented on and devoured Paul Gascoigne for years. But until now no one has ever known...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
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Author: Justin Spring Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of...
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary
Author: Rebecca Front Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'I was completely captivated' David Sedaris People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations....
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...
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin
Author: Randal Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't
Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives
Author: Christopher Spriggs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo
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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
All Made Up
Author: Janice Galloway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This...
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
Author: Emma Brockes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of...
Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring
Author: Eric Musgrave Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary...
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
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Author: Daniel Bergner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
Open: The Story Of Human Progress
Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life from...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
Author: Catherine Hickley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art....
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...