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'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant...

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...

A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
A barber who made $150 million in...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

Writing about real lives takes...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times

What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us?...

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria....

'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?

Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...

A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award...

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small...

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert...

Cave... , Rowell...

An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our...

A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

Haunts of...

"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a...

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic...