Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography ...
We are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we dress every day? Can memories, meaning and ideas ...
If you live to 80, you'll have barely more than four thousand weeks on earth. How will you decide how to spend them?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,'...
Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of na...
A must-read... Fascinating' JO BRAND We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why. How do mental health problems...
"A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari's three phenomenal global bestselling titles:Includes:SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY These boo...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane * A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sun...
In the subsequent volume of the “Chronicles of Terror” series we give voice to the eyewitness who survived the tragedy of war. It is from the perspective of their experiences that we sh...
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of on...
An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world's leading intellectuals of the ...
From the author of the No. 1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new boo...
By the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Führer's fortunes would turn dramatically as the conflict raged on. Re...
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back...with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity'Both a memo...
A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written...
“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from...
The German doctor usually only came for the selections. They were carried out in such a way that the German doctor walked next alongside the sick beds and each prisoner had to get up. If she couldn...
During the Second World War, an unofficial group of Polish diplomats from Polish Legation i Bern, led by that counry's envoy to Switzerland Aleksander Ładoś, cooperated with representatives of Jews...
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the ...
Great art has dreadful manners……The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they ...
‘This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extended invitation to wonder, to pleasure’