Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above h...
Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications and unjus...
Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before.’ Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast, and SlowYuval Noa...
Stephen Vizinczey is a poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his novels In Praise of Older Women (1965) and An Innocent Millionaire (1983). Born in Hungary in 1933, he was only two years ol...
Selected as a Book of the Year by many of the British broadsheets, Vanished Kingdoms is a dazzling account of Europe's lost realms, which peers through the cracks of history to discover the kingdom...
Antony Beevor's impressive military history of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy now in paperback. Making use of overlooked and new material, Beevor's gripping narrative brings to life bot...
Henry Kissinger brings his vast experience to bear on a history of CHINA viewed from a diplomatic perspective. Drawing on historical records as well as his personal conversations with Chinese leade...
In Do Less, Get More, entrepreneur and bestselling author Sháá Wasmund reveals that the key to fulfilment isn't doing more, it's doing what matters.Is your life how you im...
A collection of 11 unmissable short stories from the number 1 internationally bestselling author of Me Before You and After YouNell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's neve...
Lou Clark has lots of questions.Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she's owned for...
Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can...
A brilliant synthesis of history, psychology and storytelling, written in a clear and accessible style. Drawing on diverse sources, Pinker makes the bold and nuanced argument that we are living in ...
Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world.A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's...
From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continenta...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision makers in our homes, offices and in eve...
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash BoysIf you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That w...
A new edition of the collection of 10 letters by the Bohemian poet Rilke, advising a young poet on writing, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. Hugely influential, this is Lady Gaga's f...
Features three essays that examine the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks fundamental questions about modern civilization itself. This title explores lif...
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 ...