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Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.

One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

When she was a child, people wondered why Lorna Byrne didn't seem present in the world around her.
They never knew she was...

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

We...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

We...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff,...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...

Adams... , C...

Join Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an...

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while....

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make...

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as...