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In the run up to Christmas, we'll be sharing curious Q&As from the Sunday Times bestselling Seriously Curious.
Behind the Book: A Very Murderous Christmas
04 Dec 2018
Editor Cecily Gayford tells us why we should all have very murderous Christmases.
Our 2018 Christmas book gift guide
28 Nov 2018
Our top picks to put under the Christmas tree this year.
New releases
The Signs Were There
The stories, scandals and crucial insights behind stock market disasters - and how to avoid them
Seriously Curious
Following up 2016's hit Go Figure, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from...
Dramatic Exchanges
A unique collection of correspondence between the most celebrated actors, directors and playwrights...
The Last Battle
The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the centenary
Women & Power
A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary...
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants
A rediscovery of Darwin the botanist and his theories on insectivorous and climbing plants
Babel
A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a...
Beneath the Skin
Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection
The Laws of Human Nature
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book...
Schadenfreude
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package
A Spot of Folly
Previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense....
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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Events
Understanding Evolution: A Radical New Theory
16 Jan 2019
An unmissable conversation between Richard Wrangham, Harvard Professor of Biological Anthropology and the evolutionary behavioural scientist Professor Tamás Dávid-Barrett on "The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent" - Richard Wrangham's new book which is set to be as important and revolutionary as Guns, Germs and Steel or The Language Instinct.
Drawing on new research by geneticists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and archaeologists, Richard Wrangham will show that what domesticated our species was nothing less than the invention of capital punishment. But how could our low aggressiveness evolve from repeated acts of aggression? Wrangham solves this puzzle and in doing so, proposes a fascinating new theory for the origin of Homo sapiens.
