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WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018 & THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER___________'This book can save l...
THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
24 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense...
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes ...
Explore the rich stories, symbolism, and traditions that come wrapped up in the food on our plates - food that not only feeds our bodies but also makes up our culture. In 'The Story of Food' our millennia-old relationship with nearly 200 foods is sumptuously illustrated, with tales from all over the world - from nuts and seeds to noodles and meat.
'The definitive book of the year in our house, for both parents and offspring' Maggie O'Farrell, Guardian Books of the Year'Absolutely beautiful - get...
'Shocking and entertaining. The surprising story of the campaigning women who changed Britain.'Â Virginia Nicholson'Full of fascinating historical det...
THE TELEVISION SET - the humble box in the corner of almost every British household - has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern t...
Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2...
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books.
Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but ho...
'The girls' boarding school! What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today - the absurdly undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham,...
A narrative history of council housing-from slums to the Grenfell TowerUrgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national...
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Homo Deus will shock ...
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Where are you really from?You're British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your chil...
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the sto...
I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different fi...
In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship ...
From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most ...
'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year'Â Sunday TimesA luminou...
The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth ...
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an anc...