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Review John Higgs's book lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light . . . [he] has us wrestling with flow states and default mode networks, N...

It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentia...

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday ...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we chang...

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of ...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the...

Review A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea -- BRIAN ENO Now that so...

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between...

Review John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils ― Observer Comedy's poet laureate ― Independent The Peter Kay of poetry ...

The Quiet Masterpiece of American Literature William Stoner is an unassuming, intensely private man born into a struggling farm family in rural Mis...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

A revised and expanded edition of the book described by Books Monthly as ‘an absolute gem. A bible, in fact’. If the future is going to be creativ...

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Cult...

Product Description This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-ce...

Product Description For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of...

The first-ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, now available in paperback. John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, ...

Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards. John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an ...

John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans ar...

Naughtily hilarious parodies of children's stories as read on Terry Wogan's breakfast show.For the last four years, 8 million listeners to BBC Radi...