Sean from our Royal Festival Hall branch picks out the books that best document a conflict - memorably described by Jose Luis Borges as "two bald men fighting over a comb" - that cost 907 lives.
Katy recalls her own childhood enjoyment of the late Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are and celebrates the achievements of an author who never grew up.
The menaing of life according to 12 of history's greatest minds, from Plato to Nietzsche.
A story of freidnship and rivalry between Freud and Jung, now a film starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley.
An exploration of human differences: Prinz suggests that the way we live is governed principally by environment not genes.
Kant's central task in the "First Critique" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. This title presents a commentary on Kant's...
How does the brain remember faces? What makes us choose one decision over another? Where does language come from? With the use of images, quotations from all the major...
In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented...
* Lisa Appignanesi, prize-winning author of MAD, BAD AND SAD, turns her unrivalled attention now to love, that most fascinating of emotions
An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth
In the style of Nudge or The Spirit Level - a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.
Cassandra will be discussing the recent release of City of Lost Souls with the inimitable...
In this exclusive interview for Foyles, Nell talks about how she came to write her latest novel, The Colour of Milk, in the voice of an 1830s farm girl, why society is more compassionate today and the value of literacy and speaking one's mind.
WINNER ANNOUNCED! Afghanistan account Dead Men Risen, whose first print run was pulped by order of the MoD, is unanimous victor.
It's annual Towel Day. If you don't know why, then treat yourself to one of the smartest, most imaginative comic fiction creations ever.