Arts, Language & Literature
The Time Travel Handbook
James Wyllie
An entertaining and informative travel 'guidebook' to some of the most important events in world history
The Cabaret of Plants
Richard Mabey
A Mabey magnum opus:'Mabey's finest, an eclectic world-roaming collection of stories … lacing colour, intimacy and emotional texture aroun…
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…
How to Watch a Movie
David Thomson
An enlightening guide to all the magical workings of watching film from 'a giant in the world of film criticism' (The Times)
Flight into Danger
John Castle
The book that inspired a major television drama and the movie Airplane! A classic novel of suspense by John Castle and Arthur Hailey.
Mastering Coaching
Max Landsberg
What coaches and managers need to know to truly master the skills of coaching, and so encourage and deliver high performance
The Shark and the Albatross
John Aitchison
For twenty years John Aitchison has been travelling to distant places to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters. The Shark and the Albatross…
O Sing unto the Lord
Andrew Gant
The biography of a quintessentially English tradition by one of its leading scholars and proponents
The Railways
Simon Bradley
An extraordinary social history of Britain's rail networks and its people, that will appeal to railway enthusiasts, commuters and everyone else w…
The Signalman
Simon Bradley
A classic ghost story by Charles Dickens, introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways
Making a Point
David Crystal
The triumphant third volume in David Crystal's classic series on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a co…
The Book of Human Emotions
Tiffany Watt Smith
Now available in paperback: let Tiffany Watt Smith guide you through the history, politics, art, literature and philosophy of 156 emotions from around…
The Economist: Economics 4th edition
Richard Davies
An all-new digest of the Economist's own analysis of the state of economies and economics
Other People's Money
John Kay
A scathing and well-informed critique of the financial industry by leading economist John Kay
D.I.Y. Magic
Anthony Alvarado
A collection of techniques to access deeper levels of creativity and change the way you think.
The Elephant in the Classroom
Jo Boaler
A REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL BESTSELLERWhy do millions struggle with mathematics, and what can be done to change that for the next ge…
The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile
Jerry Toner
A sparkling introduction to the Ancient World that brings its peoples and cultures vividly to life.
The Future of Almost Everything
Patrick Dixon
The way the world is changing – the trends everyone is interested in and which businesses must take account of if they are to survive and prosper in t…
Voices from the Front
Peter Hart
The First World War in the words of the men who fought it, from the author of Gallipoli and The Great War.
Shifting Sands
Raja Shehadeh
A fresh look at the Middle East today, tomorrow and in the past: fifteen writers, with an introduction by Raja Shehadeh, author of the Orwell Prize-wi…