In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed....

From rivals propelling each other forwards to friends combining their talents, it's clear: often two heads are better than one.
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From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus...

Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is...

Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they...

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept

The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed...

An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

An obsessive and...

In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most...

An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
Patrick O’Brian was one of the greatest British...

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical...

From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great...

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The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin....

What makes a scientist?

Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the...

From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or...

In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep...

They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a...

A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Trees are immensely valuable. They give shape...

Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the...

This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier...

In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto, renowned educator Clarissa Farr tells stories from the frontlines of schools to...

Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world.
Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the...

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.

For...

TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the...

Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of...

Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain...

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This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations.

Early travellers to the...

An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no...

The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats,...