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

From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes...

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

An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth.

Carbon. It is the building...

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

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday...

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...

Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as ‘our most irresistible...

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...

Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and...

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...

After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell...

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

‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human...

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
In January 1649, King Charles I was...

Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It...

The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this 'African El Dorado' cost the...

An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric...

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its...

In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally...

Ben Law’s incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of...