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Britain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our identities, built our communities and defined our regions. Craftland chronicles the vanishing skills and traditions that used to govern every aspect of life on these...
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and...
**Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award***A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025 **From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Difficult Women*'Brilliant, timely and compulsively readable. Helen...
A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first.'Capturing not only the perils faced by the intrepid airmen who attempted the flight, but also their humanity' JOHN LANCASTER, author of The Great Air...
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widely known and understood, and that invisibility has created a space...
We Were There is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London.**An Esquire and GQ best book of 2025, an Observer book of the summer, an Independent book of the month, and a Guardian book to look forward...
This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and...
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful...
'Renewed my faith in the human power to resist, imagine and make new, better worlds.’ Susanna Crossman, author of Home Is Where We Start'Compelling' TLS How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities...
A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVERA moving, hard-hitting account of...
An extraordinary adventure into South America’s epic history'Absolutely wonderful' DOMINIC SANDBROOK'A luscious, erudite romp ... a tour de force of literary mezcla' ALICE ALBINIA'An unputdownable delight' JON LEE ANDERSON'A magnificent contribution to the Latin...
‘This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing’ Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront – a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in...
Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed historian of Europe'Epic and witty' Observer 'Erudite, entertaining' Helena Attlee'Charming' Wall Street Journal'Delightful and authoritative' Judith...
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín‘Wholly original. I...
* A Financial Times Book of the Year* A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.'Fantastic ... expert storytelling' CONN IGGULDEN'Excellent' SUNDAY TIMES'Riveting and utterly original' MAIL ON...
A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.* AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 *A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2024 *'This really is the loveliest of books' I'I cannot recommend it highly enough'...
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz.Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely...
'Outstanding' JOHN PRESTON | 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES | 'A master-storyteller' ANDREW ROBERTS | 'Vivid and compelling' IRISH TIMES | 'Psychologically shrewd' IRISH INDEPENDENT | 'A page-turning finale' HISTORY TODAY | 'Superb' TELEGRAPH *5 STARS*Celebrated reformer and...
‘A page-turner about page-turners’ Janice Hallett‘The perfect piece of armchair detection’ Ruth Ware‘Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping’ London Review of BooksA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: the literary crime...
Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of The Song of the...
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