Alexander's mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny.'Alexander of Macedon has one, wild dream: to rule the worl...
'His heart racing, Henry took a step towards the enemy line. A shape loomed towards him in the darkness...'Travel back in time to a world engulfed by war, as historian Dominic Sandbrook...
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Wa...
The complete omnibus of the ten-part novella serialisation AERA: The Return of the Ancient Gods, from the internationally bestselling author of The Dwarves. The gods are back, the world is in uproa...
'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on ...
'Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing. It made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa.' Oliver BulloughAfrica Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of mo...
You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.In this funny and ...
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Frit...
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly evocative classic, now with a new introduction by the authorEyes mark the shape of the cityThe mid...
Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess.But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job...
One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideologic...
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just...
Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family HistoryThis is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as...
How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life wi...
TWO KILLERS. TWO MOTIVES. A DEADLY RACE AGAINST TIME.When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don't hear ...
Alex Rider is in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him. But he is forced back into action when the vicious terrorist group Force Three takes him prisoner. Alex makes his escape ...
Ali Cross is back in the gripping sequel to James Patterson's bestselling mystery for young readers featuring the son of Detective Alex Cross, the lead character in James Patterson's biggest-sellin...
The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with those who knew him best, with many dramatic new discoveries abou...
To celebrate 150 years since the first publication of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this gorgeous collection of one hundred postcards features a mix of Sir John Tenniel's origin...