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Embers of the Hands Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize

Eleanor Barraclough's Viking history is recognised as one of the best history non-fiction reads of 2025

New Alan Bennett Diaries for March 2026

We are delighted to be publishing Alan Bennett’s Enough Said, his fourth collection of diaries and prose, in partnership with Faber.

Announcing the 2025 Ideas Prize shortlist

The Profile Books and Alexander Aitken Ideas Prize is pleased to announce its shortlist for the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic.

New releases

A Case of the Claws

Catherine Aird

Soft paws, sharp claws: four classic crime tales to delight crime-fiction and cat lovers at Christmas

Merry Murdle: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

G. T. Karber

Deck the halls with this festive instalment of Murdle, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling mystery puzzle series that challenges you to find whodunnit, wh…

Wisdom Takes Work

Ryan Holiday

The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent

The Economist Quiz Book

Tom Standage

Sixty addictive quizzes from the clever people at The Economist

How to Build a Haunted House

Caitlin Blackwell Baines

A grand tour of the haunted house through art, architecture, ghost stories and more

World Cup Fever

Simon Kuper

The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups – by one of our most talented football writers

Sparta

Andrew Bayliss

From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of an ancient superpower

Bordergrams: FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MURDLE

G. T. Karber

The brand new spy-themed puzzle series from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Murdle

Into the Dream Lab

Michelle Carr

A Dream Engineer's guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on your waking life

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions

Eli Burnstein

A charmingly illustrated and witty stocking filler for language lovers

LRB Diary for 2026: Brief Lives

LRB Diary

An irreverent, fascinating mini-biography for every week of the year, written by the best contributors to the London Review of Books

Henry Kissinger

Jérémie Gallon

The prize-winning portrait of the master of Realpolitik

Augustine the African

Catherine Conybeare

A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare

Psycho-Cybernetics 365

Maxwell Maltz

A book of daily wisdom drawn from the bestselling personal development classic Psycho-Cybernetics

Economics: The Economist Guide

Philip Coggan

The definitive Economist guide to the world of economics

Earth Shapers

Maxim Samson

How humans harnessed the geographical landscape and wrote ourselves onto our surroundings

To the Sea by Train

Andrew Martin

A lively history of the seaside holiday by train from Britain's 'Bard of the Buffer'

Murdle: The Case of the Seven Skulls: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

G. T. Karber

Hit the road with this fifth instalment of the #1 Sunday Times bestselling puzzle series that challenges you to find whodunnit, where and why!

Wellbeing Intelligence

Kiran Bhatti

A new approach to mental health at work: working on our wellbeing intelligence (WBQ)

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