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In this clear and evocative account, John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and soci...

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...

By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators...

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

Set In Darkness is a gripping novel set in Edinburgh, where the city is on the brink of significant political change with the establishment of the ...

When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who w...

The fascinating true history of ghosts - how we see them and why we believe in them, from Roger Clarke What explains spectral sightings? Why do we...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDEN...

Retirement doesn't suit John Rebus. He wasn't made for hobbies, holidays or home improvements. Being a cop is in his blood. So when DI Siobhan Cla...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential modern and contem...

Product Description Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book he enters the m...

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 fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist’s 90th birthday in December ...

The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the work and lives of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert & George, connecting th...

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures...

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North W...

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...

AS FEATURED IN WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2023 From bestselling author and beloved Guardiancolumnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour...