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...

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From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge,...

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...

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‘Phileas Fogg was one of those...

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.

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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...

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

'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S....

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

Early travellers to the...

Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of...

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

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'There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half...

'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?'

An endearing tale...

'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?'

Heathcliff, an orphan, wild and unkempt, is taken in...

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‘A slow and heavy step, which had been heard...