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The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of...

'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution' In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin...

This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study...

A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

Transform your nightly routine into a gateway to abundance and fulfillment with Do This Before Bed, where practical wisdom meets spiritual insight for tangible, life-changing results. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime...

Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof *Featuring new bonus material Arnold Schwarzenegger's 77 Lessons...

A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most significant, if little known, historical figures. In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised...

An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book...

The iconic 'iceman' known for his record-breaking endurance of cold temperatures, shares his world famous method for improving your mind, body and performance. OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'I've...

Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has had unanimous praise from critics and...

How to handle life's manipulators and avoid being exploited by them, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by...

Why resilience and passion are the keys to outstanding achievement and how they can help you to accomplish remarkable things UNLOCK THE KEY TO SUCCESS In this must-read for anyone...

Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited...

Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later. Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously...

Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West. From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious...

Bill Bryson's very first travel book, a sidesplittingly funny road trip around small town America. 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was...

Bill Bryson's hilarious tour of his adopted country- the book that was voted the nation's favourite book on modern Britain in a World Book Day BBC poll. In 1995, before...

Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as...

Described by the Australian Book Review as 'deeply moving', this is the story of Warri and Yatungka, an exiled couple who spent thirty years exiled in the Gibson Desert. Partners...

A beautifully illustrated guide to London that takes you back in time This is a fascinating and unique guide to the capital that takes the reader off the beaten track...

Break the habit of a lifetime and never smoke a cigarette again Following the enormous success of his bestselling Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Allen Carr provides smokers with the...

Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the...

The Female Brain is a thought-provoking, accessible and fun guide that will help women to better understand themselves and the men in their lives. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann...

Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of...

A Sunday Times bestseller -- the first authoritative general account for thirty years This landmark work answers two fundamental questions - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees...

Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are spent trying to sleep. Most us have disturbed, restless nights and...

Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...

A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why...

The phenomenal top ten bestseller that shows how everyone can understand how the universe works The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that...

A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...

A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West...

Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers...

The classic work about meetings and decision-making **The multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon** Do you regularly find yourself in long, unstructured meetings which end without a decision? Are you a team...

'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as...

The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts- fenland farmer and humble backbencher;...

The No.1 international bestselling author back with a powerful and provocative exploration of why we so often misread other people The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy...

'A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present' New Statesman John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for...

We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...

A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the...

'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most challenging issues in modern Europe deserves to be widely read' Ian...

A fully revised and updated edition of the most approachable introduction to the beginnings of philosophy Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a...

This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...

'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli...

A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...

A major book on geopolitics by one of the world's best-known figures World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a...