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Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: read an extract

12 Feb 2019

This Darwin Day, find out about the incredible plants that made Darwin a pioneering botanist.

Profile and Aitken Alexander launch £25,000 prize

11 Feb 2019

We're thrilled to announce the launch of a new prize for best debut trade non-fiction proposal with Aitken Alexander.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: read an extract

29 Jan 2019

Read an extract from Shoshana Zuboff's groundbreaking expose of the corporations who are taking our data online

New releases

Medieval Bodies

Medieval Bodies

A glitteringandgruesomehistoryofthebodyinthe MiddleAges,loved by critics and readers alike

Shapeshifters

Stories from the GP's waiting room, brought lyrically to life by the bestselling author of...

The Border

The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Sounds Appealing

Sounds Appealing

The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the...

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which...

The Goodness Paradox

The Goodness Paradox

Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation...

Hungary

In this robust overview of Hungarian history, award-winning historian professor Norman Stone tells...

Mr Five Per Cent

Mr Five Per Cent

King of oil, deal-maker, art collector - the definitive biography

Chasing the Sun

Chasing the Sun

The full story of how our relationship with the sun shapes our health, productivity and mood

Armageddon and Paranoia

Armageddon and Paranoia

How did we end up living in a terrifying reality of potential nuclear annihilation?

The Signs Were There

The Signs Were There

The stories, scandals and crucial insights behind stock market disasters - and how to avoid them

The Last Battle

The Last Battle

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the centenary

Featured authors

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Mary Beard

Alan Bennett

Shaun Bythell

Eugenia Cheng

Robert Greene

Susan Hill

Ryan Holiday

Susie Orbach

Ruth Rendell

Bernie Sanders

Raja Shehadeh

Special Offers

Videos

Watch the Medieval Bodies animation

03 Apr 2018

Watch our beautiful animation of the cover of Jack Hartnell's Medieval Bodies

Watch Velominati founder Frank Strack introduce some of the toughest cyclists of all time

28 Jun 2017

Founder of The Velominati & co-author of The Hardmen Frank Strack tells us about some of the toughest cyclists of all time.

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