In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible stories of three women who raised three world-changing...

The men of Captain Scott's Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the...

There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
Where bees and...

In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate...

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by...

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living...

9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet...

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...

As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood's insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political power...

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....

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in...

This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress islands – and what happens...

An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence.

Where does self-confidence come from? How does it...

What makes a scientist?

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

Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of...

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

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.

How did the descendants of...

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...