Arts, Language & Literature

World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut: a collection essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire…

Between Two Hells
Diarmaid Ferriter
The history of the war that shaped the Irish political landscape across the twentieth century and up to the present day, by Ireland's most promin…

Being a Human
Charles Foster
A radical work of nature writing and philosophical enquiry, resituating us in our real human skins.

Pocket World In Figures 2022
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2022

The Nature Seed
Lucy Jones
The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide to sharing the wonders of the natural world with your children.

How to Deal With Idiots
Maxime Rovere
The international bestseller that offers an alternative to chucking your most irksome idiot out a window.

Something Out of Place
Eimear McBride
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

The Family Firm
Emily Oster
Navigate the primary school years with best-selling author and one of the TIME's most influential people of 2022, Emily Oster

Spike
Jeremy Farrar
First book on Covid-19 by a scientist on SAGE, assessing how the government 'followed the science'

The Sunny Nihilist
Wendy Syfret
How believing in nothing is the key to a happy life – welcome to Sunny Nihilism

The Nation of Plants
Stefano Mancuso
This playful manifesto – presented for the plant nation by a leading neurobiologist – is an international bestseller

Mountain Tales
Saumya Roy
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

How to Build a Human
Emma Byrne
Here is what science knows about childhood, so you can use the scientific method – be calm, be curious, be creative – to understand your human child i…

Brainscapes
Rebecca Schwarzlose
A trailblazing journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action all depend on 'maps' etched into your gray matter – and h…

How to Tell Stories to Children
Silke Rose West
A delightful parents' and teachers' guide to creating and telling stories to children