
Londoners
Craig Taylor
'A book to deepen your relationship with London and make you fall in - or out - of love with it all over again.' Evening Standard
Read moreLondoners
Craig Taylor
'A book to deepen your relationship with London and make you fall in - or out - of love with it all over again.' Evening Standard
Read moreMap of a Nation
Rachel Hewitt
The ground breaking tale of the Ordnance Survey - 'History at its best' A.N. Wilson
Read moreNothing to Envy
Barbara Demick
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction - 'An outstanding work of journalism' The Times
Read moreSmile or Die
Barbara Ehrenreich
How positive thinking fooled America and the world - 'Fascinating, often very funny ... stunningly good' Sunday Times
Read moreThe Ego Trick
Julian Baggini
A riveting investigation of the nature of 'the self', by one of Britain's best-loved popular philosophers.
Read moreThe Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
The Booker short-listed sensation - think the Coen Brothers meets Cormac McCarthy.
Read moreThe Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane
Considered by many to be the book that marked the pinnacle of ‘the new nature writing’, The Wild Places charts Robert Macfarlane’s search for the remaining wild places of Britain and what the notion of wildness can mean to us all today.
Read moreThis Book Will Save Your Life
A.M. Homes
The novel that captured the imagination of more than a quarter of a million readers in the UK alone. A.M. Homes is famous for her razor sharp wit, finely wrought characters and sheer ability to entertain. This is her masterpiece.
Read moreUntil Further Notice, I Am Alive
Tom Lubbock
'These are thoughts for us all, sooner or later - and this is a book that I will keep with me, as long as I live.' David Sexton, Evening Standard
Read moreWe the Animals
Justin Torres
'We should be grateful for Justin Torres, a brilliant, ferocious new voice.' Michael Cunningham
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