Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory. Even people who know nothing of Formula One have heard of his crash at Nurburgri...
'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind tur...
The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covi...
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nanotechnology and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: ...
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades...
A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast.The Anthropocene is the current geologi...
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive blac...
Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader – fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues – and yet he commanded enormous support. So ...
Charles Moore’s masterful and definitive biography of Britain’s first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall.How did Margaret Thatcher ...
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private faceSusan Sontag was our last g...
As an artist and persona, Jim Morrison epitomized the late 1960s, bridging a burgeoning counterculture and popular culture, while acting out the iconoclastic rage, rampant libido, and spectacular f...
How ownership came to control us - and what we can do about itOur love affair with our possessions seems to be all-consuming, even as our planet reaches breaking point. Despite the cons...
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in...
The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historianGandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of...
False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the ‘corporatocracy’ – a vast network...
In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, ca...
`Will snare you in its web of deceit ... A brilliant investigative expose' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author`Reads like a fast-paced John le Carre thriller, and never lets up'...
Up close, back stage, tiny gigs, pre-famous - Led Zep to Bowie as you've never seen them.Released to coincide with an exhibition at Proud Central, London (8th December - 28 January), th...
'Jimi Hendrix was not so much an element in a Periodic Table of Heavy Rock as an entire elemental spectrum in a parallel universe.'Welcome to The Periodic Table of Heavy Rock! Instead of hydr...
Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of...