Arts, Language & Literature
The Economist: Megachange
Daniel Franklin
Building on the hugely successful annual Economist 'The World in …' publications, this essential guide to the twenty-first century capture…
The War On Heresy
R. I. Moore
A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval Europe, now available in paperback.
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu
A provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity
The Cardinal's College
Judith Curthoys
A detailed and absorbing history of one of Oxford University's most imposing colleges
Wild Coast
John Gimlette
John Gimlette travels to Guyana, to the Wild Coast in South America, and discovers his ancestral colonial history – one of brutal, cruel and often unc…
Africa's Future
Duncan Clarke
One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration puts forward a unique reformulation of Africa's economic past, present and…
Investing in Change
Andrew Gowers
These are tumultuous times for the banking industry in Europe. The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 has rarely been out of the headlines since. Y…
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart
A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus.
The Library Book
Famous writers on libraries real or imagined, past and future; why libraries matter and to whom.In aid of The Reading Agency
Up Pohnpei
Paul Watson
Penguins Stopped Play meets Cool Runnings in this hilarious and uplifting true story of footballing triumph against all the odds, set on a Pacific isl…
A Fourth Innings with Cardus
Neville Cardus
Fifty years of the essays, newspaper articles and press reports from Neville Cardus, the great cricket writer.
On the Fault Line
Terence McNamee
Essential insight into the conflicts waiting to happen in every country
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ron Hansen
In this retelling of one of the great classic tales of the American West, James comes across as a complex character, a new age type with an interest i…
Growling Over The Oceans
Deborah Lake
The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames…
Calories and Corsets
Louise Foxcroft
An enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the bulge over two millennia.
People Who Say Goodbye
P. Y. Betts
A memoir of growing up in London during the First World War, as told through the voice of a child.
The Wonderbox
Roman Krznaric
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today