Arts, Language & Literature
Love by Numbers
Luisa Dillner
How do I know if he's the one? Is there a seven-year itch? Do chat up lines work and, if so, which ones? There is academic research out there tha…
On Roads
Joe Moran
'A masterpiece' Sunday Times, 'Terrific' Guardian, 'Sparkling' Telegraph, 'Beautiful' Mail on SundayUniversall…
Piazza San Marco
Iain Fenlon
The Piazza San Marco is the most famous townscape in the West. This book is the first to consider it as a coherent whole, as a theatre in which the wh…
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
Eric Kaufmann
Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
St Peter's
Keith Miller
A huge baroque basilica with a dome by Michelangelo, crammed with works of art, standing in a Ruritanian statelet called the Vatican, home of Roman Ca…
The Language of Life
Francis Collins
The former head of the Human Genome Project reveals how you can join the personalised medicine revolution
Voltaire
Ian Davidson
This dazzling biography of Voltaire celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived.
We Were There
Robert Fox
'A most wonderful collection…I will put it on my shelf and take it off over and over again' Simon Schama
We-Think
Charles Leadbeater
The man The Spectator calls 'the new wizard of the web' explores the ways in which mass collaboration is dramatically reshaping our approach…
Europe's Decline and Fall
Richard Youngs
Europe has lost its influence on world affairs – this expert assessment shows that urgent action is needed
Tolstoy
Rosamund Bartlett
Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinar…
Iran: the Looming Crisis
Emanuele Ottolenghi
An important contribution to the debate about Europe's approach to Iran … well-informed, perceptive and sobering. I hope our leaders will read…
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Ian Stewart
A new trove of entrancing numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for adventurous minds
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Natalie Haynes
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived?
Why The West Rules – For Now
Ian Morris
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 20,000 years of history and archae…
Weeds
Richard Mabey
A lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place by one of Britain's best and most admired nature writers
A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels
Carol Mack
Completely revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller – the original guide on how to spot and identify the most terrifying of supern…
Nella Last in the 1950s
Patricia Malcolmson
Picking up where bestseller Nella Last's Peace left off, this fascinating diary from the 1950s delves into the thoughts, feelings and daily life…