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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...

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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...

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?

A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world...

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

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number...

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1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on...

When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises – echoes in concert halls, clamour in...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man’s place in evolution? In the final decades of the...

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ‘a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day’. As...

Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms...

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc...

In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most...

This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to your problems.

Hundreds of thousands of people have...

Tudor tells a family story like no other.

The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious...

Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most...

In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year,...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who...

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...