'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'

In 2020, an...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions

Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments,...

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin...

Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon...

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive...

We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are...

What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?

In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading...

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French...

A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history

In this major retelling of...

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can...

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to...

An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk Savvy

Is more data...

A funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and why the smallest people have the answers to the biggest questions

'Anyone can...

Near the river Klaralven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern Varmland, lies the secluded village of Osebol. It is a...

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the...

In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a...

From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity

Farming is the...

There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us...

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas...

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds.
For as long as we've studied the mind,...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the...