Jungle is a new and ambitious history of the world, telling the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical f...więcej »
Historian Jon Keller is on a trip to Switzerland when the world ends. As the lights go out on civilisation, he wishes he had a way of knowing whether his wife, Nadia, and their two daughters are st...więcej »
“A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom…SUCH FUN!”–Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big SkyFour septuagenarians with ...więcej »
The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster.Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone n...więcej »
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birthLudwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the ...więcej »
A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating, original, excellent'...więcej »
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the fi...więcej »
In Iran, 1953, a driver named Behrouz discovers an abandoned baby in an alleyway. When he adopts her, naming her Aria, he has no idea how profoundly this fiery, blue-eyed orphan will shape his futu...więcej »
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. ...więcej »
Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terrorist attacks to the rise of the far right. ...więcej »
In a rural English village in the middle of a snowstorm, the unthinkable happens: the school is under siege.From the wounded headmaster barricaded in the library, to teenage Hannah in l...więcej »
San Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump's political ambitions were thwarted. London, 22nd century. Decades of cataclysmic events have kill...więcej »
From the author of the bestselling A Short History of England and A Short History of Europe.London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes an...więcej »
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growin...więcej »
Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welc...więcej »
From the author of the bestselling A Short History of England and A Short History of Europe.London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes an...więcej »
By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide libert...więcej »
Iggy... You can't help loving him.' David BowieTHESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE FUCKING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on musi...więcej »
'Hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time, Nimko has blown apart all taboos, blown apart the echo chamber and included all women in the feminist conversation. Essential reading for everyone' -...więcej »
This book will give you many hours of your life back.'Timely and necessary . . . a must-read' Cal Newport, author of Digital MinimalismEvery day, an unseen form of labour cr...więcej »