In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman’s mission to help the...

The international prize-winner: A potent exploration of Peru, told as a noirish, hard-boiled serial killer novel, reissued in a...

A deeply moving and startlingly original celebration of everyday life, by one of Britain's leading thinkers and...

A family gathering brings decades of suppressed tension to the surface in this classic novel from master storyteller Stewart...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never...

Steve Jobs was an American visionary who immeasurably altered the way the world uses technology. From the Apple II to minimalist...

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and...

After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end....

How do you carry on, when you lose someone you love?

Big Billy Brennan's family is reeling from loss, his marriage is a...

Campbell... , Chellel...

Inside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and...

A powerfully original novel of modern love by the author of Call Me By Your Name.

A man in his late twenties goes to a large...

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded...

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an...

A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the enduring splendour of the...

When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death,...

Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab – the latest experiment...

The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth...

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

‘My name is Oscar and I’m ten years old . . . They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander...

1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to...

Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false...

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship...

Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her...

How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature’s...

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini – amateur photographer and compulsive reader –...

An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner.
They need to discuss their teenage sons.
The boys have committed a...

The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain's best biographers. This magnificent...

In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth...