From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a page-turning adventure. Writing at...
Planet Earth. Four elements. One incredible story.&,nbsp,Lonely Planet Kids' The Big Earth Book&,nbsp,takes children on a rollercoaster ride through history, geography, science and more to...
The story of the economists who championed the rise of free markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world.As the post-World War II economic boom began...
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor...
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great...
From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story...
First published in 1851, John Ruskin's Victorian story, newly illustrated by Quentin Blake, tells the tale of the Black brothers: the kind-natured 11-year old Gluck...
A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England...
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of...
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW.DEATH TO...
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level,...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019'An utterly beguiling fever dream of a novel... Its sheer technical bravura places it head and shoulder above pretty much...
Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio....
",Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's...
'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler ... an outstanding debut, assured and highly enjoyable' Observer'Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple,...
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to...
Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not...
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so...
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesfuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were...
The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists,...