Arts, Language & Literature

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

All In It Together
Alwyn Turner
A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces

The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent
A compelling foundation for a new story of interconnectedness, showing how, as our civilization unravels, another world is possible.

An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
An inspiring, moving story of caring from the bestselling author Kate Mosse

The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.

After Birth
Jessica Hatcher-Moore
A straight-talking new mums' guide to physical and mental health after having a baby

Dancing on Ropes
Anna Aslanyan
Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events