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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION
The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...
Sister Outsider
The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling...
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop the false equivalencies Interrogate whiteness Interrogate capitalism Denounce the white Saviour...
The Bookseller's Tale
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st
A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known- that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols -...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we...
The Meritocracy Trap
A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has caused today's political, economic, and psychological crises - and how we...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...
The Unwomanly Face of War
The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why, having stood up for and held their...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past What can...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops The Nazis styled themselves as warriors against moral...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and their role in Europe's 19th-century cultural Renaissance The Europeans is a...
The Ruin of Kasch
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on...
The Book of Tea
First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey For a generation adjusting painfully...
The Road to Wigan Pier
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant...
Down and Out in Paris and London
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
The shocking and compelling story about the original inhabitants of America and the first book to focus on their plight. The American West, 1860-1890- years of broken promises, disillusionment, war...
Cod
Charting the waves a mere fish can send through history, Kurlansky has fashioned an epic masterpiece out of a seemingly small subject. 'Who would ever think that a book on...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**A New York Times Editor's Pick*'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in...
Developing locally: An international comparison of local and regional economic development
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You Can't Grow up till You Go Back Home: A Safe Journey to See Your Parents as Human
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Waterfront: Graft, corruption and violence - Australia's crime frontier from 1788 till now
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The Spike: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future
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Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays
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Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990
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Democratizing Global Governance
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Edison and the Electric Chair
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What on Earth is Going On?: A Crash Course in Current Affairs
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The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
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Comparative Sociology and Social Theory: Beyond the Three Worlds
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Apocalypse Postponed
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
Hmong Story Cloths: Preserving Historical & Cultural Treasures
Hmong story cloths provide a visual documentation of the historical and cultural legacy of the Hmong people from the country of Laos. The Hmong first began making the story cloths...
Harriet Quimby: Flying Fair Lady
One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a gilded era, determined to have more than the life...