Richard Moore The Tour de France is renowned for its chaos and drama. But no other Tour has quite compared to what played out in 1986. That year witnessed a show-stopping rivalry... | Rebecca Skloot The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever ... |
Philip Ball Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This... | Chris McNab "A history of the world in 100 weapons". |
Sjon; Victoria Cribb An ode to storytelling, The Whispering Muse evokes a time gone by with wit and verve, from the rogues and oddities among sea-faring types, to the long-lost romance and mystique... | Caitlin Davies Annie is left alone to mull over the past and she consumed by the house ,it's previous inhabitants, Lily Painter, a rising star of the music, whose performances were the... |
J. P. Davidson; Stephen Fry The accompanying book to Stephen Fry's engrossing and entertaining TV guide to the wonder of language. | Mike Lancaster It's a brave new world. 'My name is Kyle Straker. And I don't exist anymore.' So begins the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on to old audio tapes. You might... |
Howard Jacobson WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | Richard Templar In this clever book, bestselling author Richard Templar delivers a collection of principles, tactics and techniques that will make sure things always get done, without... |
Teju Cole Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental... | Margaret Atwood * A major paperback from one of our great writers:following the first of her speculative fiction, ORYX AND CRAKE |
Hossein Amirsadeghi; Maryam Homayoun... Offers insight into the studios and inspirations of nearly 120 of Britains greatest living artists working today, both in Britain and abroad. This large-format book brims with specially commissioned photographs... | Tina Rosenberg In the style of Nudge or The Spirit Level - a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world. |
Christopher Hitchens The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the author of God Is Not Great. | Christos Tsiolkas At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates... |