Arts, Language & Literature
Snoop
Sam Gosling
A fascinating book about what our everyday actions and possessions really say about us.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo – our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really a…
The Forbidden City
Geremie Barme
At the heart of Beijing lies the great walled compound of the Forbidden City, whose changing fortunes have run parallel with China's dramatic his…
Cleopatra
Joyce Tyldesley
The Romans regarded her as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Sh…
Violence
Slavoj Zizek
'The Elvis of cultural theory' confirms his status as the most exciting philosopher in recent history as he explores the nature of violence…
The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, revolutionised our understanding of the models of modern financial theory. This new edition includes ma…
Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead
The men who created the first department stores – what Zola called 'great cathedrals of shopping' – made vast fortunes, but no one understoo…
Nella Last's Peace
Patricia Malcolmson
Picking up where bestseller Nella Last's War left off, this fascinating and unique diary of 1945-48 delves into the private life of housewife, mo…
Pieces of Modesty
Peter O'Donnell
The first collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise
Asian Godfathers
Joe Studwell
The men who control the economies of S.E. Asia are unimaginably rich and powerful. They gamble at golf for US$2 million a hole. This is – for the firs…
Japan Through the Looking Glass
Alan MacFarlane
A journey of discovery through Japan's multi-faceted customs and culture
The Rosetta Stone
John Ray
The Rosetta Stone has been in the British Museum for 200 years and is the single most visited object in the entire collection. A pharaoh's forgot…
The Tiger That Isn't
Andrew Dilnot
A painless introduction to the maths of the real world by the team who created and present the hugely popular BBC Radio 4 series More or Less.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith
Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That so…
The Concise 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
A brilliant concise distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday, from the multi-million copy bestselling author…
In Search of Kazakhstan
Christopher Robbins
Borat has got it all wrong. Kazakhstan is far more interesting and entertaining than he'd have us believe. In fact it's probably the most su…
Better
Atul Gawande
The bestselling author of Complications reveals what you need to be a great surgeon – and shows how everyone can improve at what they do
Complications
Atul Gawande
I don't know if Atul Gawande was born to be a surgeon – I very much suspect so – but he was certainly born to write.This wise and exciting accoun…
The 33 Strategies Of War
Robert Greene
From mutli-million copy bestselling author Robert Greene comes a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help us master the modern world