Abdurraqib's meditation on Black music and performance, A Little Devil in America, was inspired. This new book, a literary memoir about basketball and what it takes to be successful, what it... read more
The European revolutions of 1848 and their aftermath, explored through a series of set-pieces by the renowned historian, author of The Sleepwalkers and Iron Kingdom.
The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.
This is very funny and very sharp - bold economic ideas dished up with anchovies on toast, etc. By the author of the best-selling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
The Director of the V&A looks at how the great ceramicist and Lunar man transformed society by creating an early form of international mass market, while also significantly contributing to t... read more
The Director of the V&A looks at how the great ceramicist and Lunar man transformed society by creating an early form of international mass market, while also significantly contributing to t... read more
Kapla, the former creative director of the Gothenburg Festival, has gathered the thoughts and experiences of the last remaining inhabitants of a village in a densely forested part of Sweden ... read more
"There's a hole in our universe, dear Liza, dear Liza..." A whizz around some cosmological complexities by a distinguished professor of physics who has the further honour of having a minor p... read more
The light of reason is safe in the hands of Prof. Pinker, experimental cognitive scientist. He even manages to explain why we are surrounded by crack-pots, quacks and conspiracy theorists.
From the author of the excellent 'The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are', an account of the dazzling city that was the hub of the known world in the C16th.
LW is first class on catastrophic events - his book on 9/11 won a Pulitzer. Now he shows how political incompetence and cynicism caused mortality ten times greater than US combat deaths in V... read more
A cultural history through seven coloured lenses. Its broad frame of reference encompasses Shakespeare, Goldfinger (first name Auric), Goethe, Roman marbles, Bronze Age gold, Mayan jade... C... read more
An immense and authoritative account that draws attention to Stalin's similarities with Hitler; their primary difference being that Stalin was a more successful murderous predator.
How the rise of antiquarian interests between the Fall of the Bastille and the Great Exhibition promoted the rediscovery of national history in Britain, France and Germany. From the author o... read more
A new departure for the author of 'The Tipping Point' etc... A history book about what happened in WW2 when technological innovation collided with good intentions...
This magnificent book - which takes its title from a remark of the singer Josephine Baker - gives us the cultural landscape of black genius from the mid C20th to the present. We are in extr... read more