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Distinctive independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing, powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Alan Bennett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Kate Mosse, Elif Shafak and many more. Multiple-time winner of the Publisher of the Year Award, we also publish books with Wellcome Collection and The Economist. 

 

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Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Notebooks
Leonardo da Vinci
The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity
Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
Illustrators' Sketchbooks
The Art Of The Sketchbook: Artists and the Creative Diary
Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making
Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice created modern finance
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
The Songlines
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
A Burst of Light
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Song of Solomon
Ways of Seeing
Don't Touch My Hair
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving
The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
EVE
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
Rollercoasters: Noughts and Crosses
The Wretched of the Earth
Things Fall Apart
A Decolonial Feminism
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
Decolonising the University
Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
Women, Race & Class
George: A Magpie Memoir
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Corvus: A Life With Birds
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
The Hidden World of the Fox
The Genius of Birds
Birds of Prey: Stunning Photographs of the World's Great Hunting Birds
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
A Brief History of Pasta: The Italian Food that Shaped the World
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Library: A Fragile History
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
Russia: Myths and Realities
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Dante
Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
A Short History of England
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir – with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
A Farmer's Diary: A Year at High House Farm
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
The Diary of a Bookseller
The Durrells of Corfu
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments
Sea Fever: A Seaside Companion: from buoys and bowlines to selkies and setting sail
Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals
Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer: A Year of Keeping Sheep, Raising Kids and Staying Sane
A Farmer's Diary: A Year at High House Farm
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Being a Beast
Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Hogarth: Life in Progress
The Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
Art of the Extreme 1905-1914
Magritte: A Life
Hogarth: Life in Progress
Cezanne: A life
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: Darwin's Botany Today
Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
How the Zebra Got its Stripes: Tales from the Weird and Wonderful World of Evolution
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
The Nation of Plants: The International Bestseller
Lives of the Stoics
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
What They Still Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave
Branding that Means Business: An Economist Edge Book
The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happen
The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (New Edition)
The Get Things Done Book: 41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things
The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
DECARBONOMICS: & the post-pandemic world
The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed
The Concise Laws of Human Nature
How to Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals
The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
The Future of Almost Everything: How our world will change over the next 100 years
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave
The Law in 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide to Your Rights
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
The Handshake: A Gripping History
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
The Library: A Fragile History
A Brief History of Pasta: The Italian Food that Shaped the World
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter
Conversations from a Long Marriage: based on the beloved BBC Radio 4 comedy starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
A Home of One's Own: Why the Housing Crisis Matters & What Needs to Change
Discipline Is Destiny: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
1984
Goodbye to All That
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
It: The classic book from Stephen King with a new film tie-in cover to IT: CHAPTER 2, due for release September 2019
Homer And Langley
Fear of Flying
The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)
Enduring Love: AS FEAUTRED ON BBC2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS
A Home of One's Own: Why the Housing Crisis Matters & What Needs to Change
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
Whose Housing Crisis?: Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy
Home Truths: The UK's chronic housing shortage - how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis
Big Capital: Who Is London For?
Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, by the 2023 Orwell Prize-winning journalist and author
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
To Sir With Love: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1
Go Well, Stay Well
Growing Up in the Gorbals: The Ralph Glasser Omnibus
Brick Lane: By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Adventures in Human Being
Histories
How Not to be a Doctor: And Other Essays
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
Gratitude
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
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A letter from Adrian Chiles

Silent Spring
How to Cook a Wolf
How to Love Animals: And Protect Our Planet
Cod
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits
Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite
Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism
The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the Future of Our Planet
In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating