Arts, Language & Literature
The Match King
Frank Partnoy
'An enthralling cautionary tale of the recurring excesses of global finance … The author displays a vivid touch in describing the Swedish parve…
Diaghilev
Sjeng Scheijen
'Superb biography … the definitive life of Diaghilev' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
Seasons of Life
Leon Kreitzman
The new world of chronobiology is popular science at its most exciting: understanding how the seasons regulate the life of every human, plant and anim…
Selected
Anjana Ahuja
A groundbreaking, definitive exploration of the history and science of leadership that uses untapped evolutionary history and science to explain every…
In the Words of Nelson Mandela
Jennifer Crwys-Williams
'When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world' Nelson Mandela
A Secret Madness
Elaine Bass
The writing is brilliantly evocative of an era when the effects of rationing were commonplace, when there was still National Service and BBC radio pla…
Alexis de Tocqueville
Hugh Brogan
Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius was the greatest of all modern political writers. His writings are e…
Breakfast With Socrates
Robert Rowland Smith
A journey through an ordinary day in the company of some extraordinary ideas – the book of the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair that's already destined t…
City State
David Kynaston
This lively read is strongly recommended – it should lead to plentiful and fruitful debate
Empires of Oil
Duncan Clarke
…a triumph and will be read by many beyond the energy sector. Erudite, convincing and grounded in Clarke's experience of life in the oil-produc…
More Brilliant Answers
AQA 63336
The UK's most accurate text question and answer service presents the latest crop of ingenious answers to more weird questions from the British pu…
Queuing for Beginners
Joe Moran
An original idea that's well-executed and of interest to anyone who's enjoyed a fry-up, stood by a water-cooler and slept under a duvet. By…
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Gavin Stamp
The definitive account of the history and significance of a world landmark – reissued in time for the anniversary of the Somme.
A Rift in Time
Raja Shehadeh
From the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks comes the poignant and revealing true story of his remarkable great uncle's political st…
Adventurers And Exiles
Marjory Harper
'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their res…
Africa: Crude Continent
Duncan Clarke
One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration turns his critical eye to Africa's oil prize, to produce this definitive ac…
Complaint
Julian Baggini
'This book could change the way we live … [a] relaxed, affable, yet startlingly lucid analysis of humanity's tendency to complain' -…
Globalisation Fractures
Charles Dumas
The renowned economist who forecast the credit crunch identifies and analyses the factors undermining the unprecedented efforts of nations to pull the…
