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John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science...

Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a...

Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents,...

Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding.

A new...

This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined...

From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval...

Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th...

Phillips... , Taylor...

What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and...

Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of...

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the...

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and...

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and...

For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How did Britain survive and eventually...

Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the...

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel.

The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass...

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories...

Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' -...

Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of...

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms...

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a...

William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite...

Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of...

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously...

This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of...

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for...

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain

Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms.

At 6 am on...