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#ChooseBookshops – Profile staff on their favourite indies
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New releases
Sea Fever
Meg Clothier
Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches
Dancing on Ropes
Anna Aslanyan
Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events
Resistance
Val McDermid
A gritty, dark tale of infectious disease gone wrong – the timely graphic novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Val McDermid
The Greywacke
Nick Davidson
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet
After the Storm
Emma Jane Unsworth
A powerful, funny call-to-arms account of postnatal depression, from the bestselling author of Animals and Adults
Schadenfreude
Tiffany Watt Smith
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package
The Gravediggers
Hauke Friederichs
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frighteni…
Richer, Wiser, Happier
William Green
In-depth interviews with more than forty of the world's super-investors reveal that the keys to wealth and business success hold other life lesso…
Move!
Caroline F Williams
Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection an…
I Saw the Dog
Alexandra Aikhenvald
A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language
The Origin of Empire
David Potter
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years
The Address Book
Deirdre Mask
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
Julia Laite
An immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story
The Classical School
Callum Williams
A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics – how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their i…
Featured authors
Bestsellers and Classics
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
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every…
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 st…
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 mo…
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.