Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour, and even a citizen. Home is where we become who we are.Eve...
The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greate...
The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence ...
This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. Sh...
'This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.'Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on constant display. A city wher...
In this thought-provoking, original work, acclaimed political philosopher Clare Chambers argues that the unmodified body is a key political principle. While defending individuals' right to change t...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY‘This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what’s going to happen next’ GUARDIAN&ls...
How do we talk to our children about racism?How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? Ho...
Summer, 1995. July Hooper knows eighteen things about her mother. Like number thirteen: she loved dancing on the kitchen table. And number eight: she was covered in freckles.
Who really benefits from a cashless society?Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're...
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange ...
‘I wish it was science fiction, but I know it’s not.’ Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype‘If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realiti...
A bus stops on the road to Montluçon, and there two strangers meet: Tati, a steely widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, and Jean, an odd, quiet man with nowhere to go. Ther...
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Uproarious memoir packed with anecdotes about the Harry Potter films' Daily Mail'Very funny and fascinating' Mail on Sunday<...
'Hilarious, unflinching, wise' - Sara Pascoe'Intensely personal, highly educational and very funny' - Adam Kay'Some brains, through no fault of their own, pack a bag, turn t...
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily ch...
The top ten bestseller from the author of The Road, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, and pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding...
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the univ...
Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient id...