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Boglands
Merritt Turetsky
A world-leading ecologist's grand tour of the strangest and least understood of all Earth's landscapes
The Bookshop
Andrew Pettegree
A magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers by the author of The Library and The Book at war
In the Realm of the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
A captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker
Crick
Matthew Cobb
The first major biography of Francis Crick, by the Baillie-Gifford shortlisted author of The Idea of the Brain
Earth Shapers
Maxim Samson
How humans harnessed the geographical landscape and wrote ourselves onto our surroundings
Sparta
Andrew Bayliss
From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of an ancient superpower
Palestine
Rashid I. Khalidi
Adapted from the international bestseller The Hundred Years War on Palestine for a new generation of readers
Staying True to You
Dr. Patricia Faison Hewlin
A unique roadmap to finding freedom from the pressures of expectation in modern working life
Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit
Jane Wellesley
An intimate portrait of Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, lover of Vita Sackville-West and part of the Bloomsbury Set
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu
A new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
You Deserve To Be Rich
Rashad Bilal
Two wildly successful founders. One revolutionary playbook for achieving financial freedom – wherever you come from.
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare