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War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil....
'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When - after years of hiding in routine, shrinking from opportunity, and sleepwalking...
Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New YorkerNamed a Top 10 Book of the Year by SlateNamed a Best Book of the Year by VultureA New York Times Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 'Talent is rare, which is why I let out a...
When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people...
In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious...
'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred Owen' TLSA classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby,...
'Breathless, terrifying U-boat drama... a masterclass in economical, tight-space storytelling, piling the pressure on both characters and audience'Time OutIt is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle...
Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the...
'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and...
The echo of the novels ofThe Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafón: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great storytellersA boy...
'Warm and uplifting storytelling: a delightful treat'Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will be after this'Telegraph'An ode to the strange and wonderful time that is Christmas'Stylist'A novel that's sure to warm the...
An intimate and engrossing celebration of the first ten years of the beloved TV series Call the Midwife.Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew. Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love is a moving journey through the iconic...
'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past?...
THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Born of No Woman proves that fiction can still amaze' Le Monde'A vivid, mesmerizing tale'L'Express'A choral novel radiating with black light'Elle Nineteenth-century rural France.Before he is called to bless the body of a...
'As brutal, withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary'A rollicking read, packed with wit and old-school glamour' Sunday Telegraph'Fabulously entertaining, impossibly glamorous and utterly irresistible' Piers Morgan'Packed with insight and fun' Red***A keen...
Where will you live in 2030?Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050?Mobility is a recurring feature of human civilisation. Now, as climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilise...
'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book'Maggie O'Farrell 'A sparky, funny work of genius and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century'Ali Smith'Funny, surprising, exquisitely...
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all...
In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian...
'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an...
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