Mervyn King,John Kay
'A brilliant new book' Daily Telegraph'Well written . . .and often entertaining'The Times'A sparkling analysis'ProspectWhen uncertainty is all around us, and th ...
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Eric Hobsbawm
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . .but recognising its enormous force, whi ...
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Frank Tallis
'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian FaulksScience, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on our quality of life. Co ...
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Tim Harford
Fifty Things that Shaped the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had fa ...
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David Bodanis
From the bestselling author of E=mc(2), Einstein's Greatest Mistake is a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of th ...
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Tom Holland
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times ...
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Tom Holland
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthu ...
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Tim Harford
The new book from the author of The Undercover Economist shows us how we can lead messier lives - and why we should. ...
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Eric Hobsbawm
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and orig ...
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Roy & Lesley Adkins
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and ag ...
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Paul Richardson
Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. M ...
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Tali Sharot,Cass R. Sunstein
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvena ...
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Paco Calvo,Natalie Lawrence
'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom' Telegraph'An impressive exploratio ...
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Sara Imari Walker
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the de ...
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Tom Holland
A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword. ...
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Tom Holland
From the bestselling author of Rubicon and Persian Fire comes this thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam ...
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Tim Tzouliadis
* An extraordinary work of history that uncovers the story of the Americans lost in Stalinist Russia ...
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'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and str ...
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Nelson Mandela
The autobiography of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century. ...
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Jenni Nuttall
A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives. 'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a ...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the pr ...
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Richard O. Prum
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