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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

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...

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....

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 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...