This Book is a Plant

The way we think about plants is about to change forever: this is your handbook to a new natural world

Strandings

Peter Riley

Searching for a woman who took a souvenir from a whale carcass, a Melville scholar loses his grip on reality

Two-Way Mirror

Fiona Sampson

How Britain's most famous female poet invented herself and defied her times

Hybrid Humans

Harry Parker

A gripping, eye-opening account of how robotics, computing and AI might be about to alter our understanding of what it means to be human – from the be…

Tickets for the Ark

Rebecca Nesbit

A popular science title about conservation. What should we conserve and why in this age of extinctions? Who should get tickets for the ark?

A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

Jerry Toner

The first ever travel guide to the Roman Empire.

How to Be You

Jeffrey Marsh

A warm-hearted guide to accepting and celebrating yourself as you are – from Jeffrey Marsh, the kindest person on the internet

Words Fail Us

Jonty Claypole

A lifelong stutterer dismantles the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy

The Hidden Spring

Mark Solms

A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen

Linda Colley

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world – through the advance of written constitutions

At Close Range

Peter Hart

A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to the…

Notes from Deep Time

Helen Gordon

The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together

Drawing on the Dominant Eye

Betty Edwards

The long-awaited follow-up to the bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing…

The BBC

David Hendy

A monumental work of popular history, making the case that the Beeb is as much of a National Treasure as the NHS

The Social Lives of Animals

Ashley Ward

Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us

The Sum of Us

Heather McGhee

The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us

Dark and Magical Places

Christopher Kemp

Lose yourself in this extraordinary account of how we navigate the world

Designing Organisations

Naomi Stanford

A new approach to structuring a business to support strategy and maximise efficiency

Recovery

Gavin Francis

A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of Adventures in Human Being

Seeking Wisdom

Julia Cameron

A deeply personal guide to creative recovery, from the internationally bestselling 'queen of change' Julia Cameron

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.

A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles

Ned Palmer

A celebration of cheese to go perfectly with your Christmas Stilton

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting…

Moneyland

Oliver Bullough

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the worl…

SPQR

Mary Beard

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire. A major new BBC TV series presented by the author s…

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

'A fascinating and inspiring true adventure story … destined to become a classic.' Ranulph FiennesA New York Times bestseller and word of…