Arts, Language & Literature
Ghost Stories: The best of The Daily Telegraph's ghost story competition
Lorna Bradbury
Six ghost stories to make your spine tingle and your mind race
A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton
An uplifting and unique journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport
Catherine the Great
Simon Dixon
Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, lover – this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler.
Fast and Louche
Jeremy Scott
P.G. Wodehouse wrote that: 'the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misun…
Into the Heart of the Mafia
David Lane
The hold of the Mafia on southern Italy, from Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through no less rotten Calabria to Sicily,…
It's All in a Word
Vivian Cook
'Delightfully eclectic', 'browsable treat', 'serious study', 'brilliant gift idea', things all said of Vivian…
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