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Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care
Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
On Connection: 'Powerful' MATT HAIG
Author: Kae Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths
Author: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings...
Dreams From My Mother
Author: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by...
Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World
Author: Juno Roche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need....
Wars of the Interior
Author: Joseph Zarate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today
Author: Derek Owusu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish) '[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.'...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen
Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES 'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRE ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME...
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Author: Gabriella Braun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them
Author: Polly Curtis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY 'A must-read book'...
In the Black Fantastic
Author: Ekow Eshun Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at...
Apocalypse Ready: The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention
Author: Taras Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. It is about a childhood in England in the shadow of the Second...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Author: Mark O'Connell, LCSW Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand,...
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better
Author: Derek A. Bardowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom
Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania?...
Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year
Author: Cold War Steve Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat's Progress, star satirist Cold War Steve returns with a viral vengeance...
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
Author: Adam Bulley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future. Our ability to think about the future is one of...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year
Author: Cold War Steve Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Following the bestselling Festival of Brexit and A Prat's Progress, star satirist Cold War Steve returns with a viral vengeance...
Apocalypse Ready: The manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention
Author: Taras Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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Author: Michael E McCullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A fine achievement.--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do A sweeping...
Inside the Dyslexic Mind: A Resource for Parents, Teachers and Dyslexics Themselves
Author: Laughton King Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Laughton King shares his understanding of the dyslexic mind from his own lived experience as a dyslexic child, an...
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
Author: Douglas Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new...
Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism
Author: Rosalind Wiseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 An empowering handbook on how to have candid conversations around race and become a better advocate, written by a Black woman...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am...
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Author: Elizabeth Lesser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And...
Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic
Author: Eliza Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 One of Bustle's Best Books of May A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex...
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 Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
Author: Will Storr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott,...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
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Author: Jacob McHangama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'Rourke Hailed as...
What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female
Author: Melissa Benn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable...
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice - Sports Book Award Special Commendation
Author: Hana Walker-Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Specially Commended at the William Hill Sports Book Awards A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should A 14-year old-rugby...
The F Word: A personal exploration of modern female friendship
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Author: Lily Pebbles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 If there's one piece of invaluable advice for women and girls of all ages, it is that there is nothing more...
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
Author: Kathleen Stock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Revolutionary Women: 50 Women of Color who Reinvented the Rules
Author: Ann Shen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Revolutionary Women is a celebration of women of colour, centring women who have historically been sidelined. For fans of Ann Shen's...
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
Author: Jeff Yang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden...
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...