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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris Xygalatas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Xygalatas is a brilliant polymath ... An important intellectual contribution and a true delight' - Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The...
Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small
Author: Clare Balding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania?...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
Animal Rights: All That Matters
Author: Mark Rowlands Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic...
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
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Author: Kevin Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Called "the best kind of nonfiction" by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama....
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
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Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why are people more relaxed...
The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
Author: Kerry Daynes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Enthralling and terrifying. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MIND is a chilling glimpse into a world of miscreants, monsters and the...
American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
Author: David S. Rudolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.' The Guardian From the fearless defense...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If you think the UK...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code: The Rosicrucian, Masonic, and Esoteric Transmission in the Arts
Author: Ernesto Frers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A look into secrets hidden in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture * Ranges from paintings of Byzantine icons to...
The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year
Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage
Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader
Author: Penny A. Weiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them
Author: Dr Jessica Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women...
Far Out: Encounters With Extremists
Author: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 What makes an extremist? From obscure cults to revolutionary movements, people have always been seduced by fringe beliefs. And in today's...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
Author: Will Sommer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince millions that...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety
Author: Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Tallis writes with clarity and wit' Sebastian Faulks Science, technology and western liberal democracy have all had a dramatic impact on...
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
Author: Edward Glaeser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical...
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
Author: James Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author...
Achilles in Vietnam
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Author: Jonathan M.D. Shay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 246 An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's...
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
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Author: James Suzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary...
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
Author: Adrian Gill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often...
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the myth of the male and female brain
Author: Prof. Daphna Joel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This timely manifesto calls for a future free from gender-based assumptions about human potential. Written by the internationally renowned neuroscientist...
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline...
Hot Feminist
Author: Polly Vernon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 'Suffering from Feminist Fatigue? Worried wearing those stilettos breaks the unspoken rules of ladyhood? Irked by the fact that...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new...
The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Author: Dunya Mikhail Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
Dreams From My Mother
Author: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by...
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done
Author: Elizabeth Ricker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Join Ricker on a wild and edifying romp through the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking. You'll encounter Olympic athletes, a...
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions...
Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
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Author: Lynn Dumenil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 360 Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age. When most of us take...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
Author: Christina Lamb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's'...
Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?
Author: Bobby Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show...
Young Women: An addictive, timely story of an intense female friendship from a powerful new voice
Author: Jessica Moor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin,...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and...
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Author: Ian Goldin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford....
Among the Hoods: Exposing the Truth About Britain's Gangs
Author: Harriet Sergeant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Journalist, think-tank report writer and mother Harriet Sergeant befriended a teenage gang when she was researching a report on...
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
Author: Jamie Ducharme Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big Vape is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a nicotine buzz, mixing tales of ground-breaking...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...