The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the...
Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was...
When it comes to persuasion, success can begin before you say a word.
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In his global bestseller Influence, Professor Robert Cialdini transformed the...
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel,...
Former Olympian and best-selling author Matthew Syed is one of the advisors Gareth Southgate engaged from outside football in order to find new ways of working as a team....
'If the world can be moved by just the slightest push, then the person who knows where and when to push has real power. So who are those people? What are their intentions? What...
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or...
Slavic mythology brought together with the legends, folkore and fairy tales of Eastern Europe in this intriguing new collection.With a new introduction, this collection of...
The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this...
The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in...
Although it is often considered an Islamic and Asian phenomenon, the Ottoman Empire (c.1288–1922) was multiethnic, multilingual and multireligious, stretching into Europe and...