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Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today. What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the s...

The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that ...

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to...

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...

In this volume, leading scholars in the arts and sciences discuss how information has been transmitted throughout history. It addresses the multipl...

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

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...

A revised and updated edition of Sir John Summerson's classic book. Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the ...

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

JIMI is the ultimate tribute to the greatest guitar player in rock and roll history, celebrating what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday ...

Review The most comprehensive and insightful biography [of George Blake] to date -- Ben Macintyre ― TimesKuper provides a different and valuab...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

'This book is pure, sexy, dirty joy' Goodreads reviewer on That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me...

'I'm sorry? A fantasy romcom that is ACTUALLY funny and has a Black woman lead? And there's buckets of nachos? And a lesbian centaur? Give me a mil...

Review Hugely absorbing ― GuardianA careful and accurate portrait ― Daily TelegraphCooper has assiduously gathered material from everyone invo...