The Good Doctor
Damon GalgutRRP: £9.99
‘The Good Doctor will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa’s transition… by a novelist of great and growing power.’ Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart
Genre: History
The Colony
Grace KarskensRRP: £16.99
A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city’s political elite, from the impact of its geology to …
The Impostor
Damon GalgutRRP: £9.99
A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Christopher HitchensRRP: £9.99
‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …
A History of the World Since 9/11
Dominic StreatfeildRRP: £9.99
In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre on a clear September day in 2001 has touched the lives …
Bright Particular Stars
David McKieIn Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of twenty-six remarkable British eccentrics on twenty-six unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victoria …
Liquid Memory
Jonathan NossiterJonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father’s finger. For him, wine is ‘memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,’ as essential an expression of cultu …
The Gilded Stage
Daniel SnowmanRRP: £30.00
The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the soc …
The Rose
Jennifer PotterThis vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sapph …
Two Tribes
Gavin NewshamIn 1979, after 20 years of thrashings of British and Irish teams by America’s seemingly unbeatable golfers, the representation of the British and Irish Ryder Cup team was extended to include continent …
Engines of War
Christian WolmarRRP: £20.00
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable s …
In Defence of the Enlightenment
Tzvetan TodorovRRP: £9.99
Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living i …
Splendour and Squalor
Marcus ScrivenRRP: £14.99
They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …
The Second World War
Gordon CorriganRRP: £30.00
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Rus …
Anne Frank
Francine ProseAnne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …
Hype and Glory
Gavin NewshamThere have been twenty major international football tournaments since that Saturday in July 1966 when Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy for England. As each of these competitions has come around …
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