Million Dollar Maths

How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the best time to take out a loan? How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win £500,000? How …

Wine Reads

A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney – bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the Wall Street J …

And Thank You For Watching

For thirty years Mark Austin covered the biggest stories in the world for one of the great British TV news organisations, ITN. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he witnessed first-hand the most …

Railways and The Raj

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The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain’s bestselling transport historian.’Christian Wolmar is Britain’s foremost railway historian.’ The Times ‘Our lea …

How to Fix the Future

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Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping ad …

None of My Business

Delving into the world of big money has all the excitement of being a war correspondent with only two-thirds of the danger. In None of My Business, P.J. O’Rourke takes forty-five years of experience m …

Small Fry

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents – artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs – Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s chil …

The Perils of Perception

‘Mandatory reading’ Steven PinkerDo you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than …

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

Politicians are consistently voted the least trusted professional group by the UK public. They’ve recently become embroiled in scandals concerning sexual harassment and expenses. Every year, they intr …

Exploding Data

A powerful argument for new laws and policies regarding cyber-security, from the former US Secretary of Homeland Security.The most dangerous threat we-individually and as a society-face today is no lo …

Metamaths

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One of the world’s greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega. ‘Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuiti …

Occidentalism

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Two brilliant scholars at the height of their powers conduct a profound investigation of the history of anti-Western stereotypes – and find their origins in the West itself.In this book, Ian Buruma an …

The Industrial Revolutionaries

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International in its sweep, vivid in its execution and original in its argument, this ‘meticulous and fascinating’ (Guardian) account of the worldwide industrial revolution.The ‘industrial revolution’ …

The Power and the Story

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In this sweeping global survey, one of Britain’s most distinguished journalists and media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth age.In …

Till the Cows Come Home

The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Counting Sheep.’A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past …

New World, Inc.

The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world.Full of colourful characters, from risk-taking merchants, aristocratic courtiers, university scientists, clever lawyers, t …