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When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics,...
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known...
The Tao Te Ching came into existence some 2500 years ago, since when it has become the most influential text of Eastern philosophy. Best translated...
Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly TrapStories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE `Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our...
Why the new nomad and an increase in migration is the best way to help the planet to prosper....
Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving' -- Saul David, Telegraph'Fascinating and utterly gripping' -- James Holland'Absorbing' --...
A pocket-sized treasury of short teachings on living life with courage and compassion--from one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of our time.&,nbsp,Here is a...
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which...
The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story...
Chocolate - `the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of...
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to...
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. `The real...
'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino'This is essential reading' Stylist...
A new book on the state of the world today -- from one of the most respected and revered political commentators aliveNoam Chomsky: philosopher, political...
Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the YearWinner at the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards",A really good book... Well-structured and well-written.", Observer",Well written and incisive.",...
The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian...
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing, my sense of playful versatility, different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns, the sharp-eyed...
