Hot Air
Peter StottOurs is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised?Here, for the first time, …
Genre: Science, Health & Medicine
The Importance of Being Interested
Robin InceComedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of …
Generations
Bobby DuffyAre millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show loyalty to political parties?In this original and deeply researched bo …
Remember
Lisa GenovaRRP: £14.99
*A New York Times bestseller*’Using her expertise as a neuroscientist and her gifts as a storyteller, Lisa Genova explains the nuances of human memory’ – Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psycholo …
Endell Street
Wendy MooreRRP: £9.99
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora M …
How to Get Over Being Young
Charlotte BauerA deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years. Through her own expe …
The Last Lions of Africa
Anthony HamRRP: £14.99
‘Bravely pursued, acutely observed and elegantly told.’ John Vaillant, author of The Tiger’Urgent and important. This moving tale with a heroic cast of characters, leonine and human, is a must-read fo …
The Truth About Lies
Aja RadenRRP: £9.99
Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you …
The Unreality of Memory
Elisa GabbertRRP: £9.99
‘A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less’Masterly… Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards …
Head First
Alastair SanthouseWhat does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of clinical stories, eminent psychiatrist Dr Alast …
A Dominant Character
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £10.99
Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize & the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.’A wond …
A Runner's High
Dean KarnazesDean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and competed across th …
Eleven Bats
Anthony 'Harry' MoffittRRP: £14.99
Alongside the SAS, Harry’s other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cricket was often the circuit-breaker Harry and his team needed after the tension of operations. He began a tradition o …
Letters To My Weird Sisters
Joanne LimburgIt seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or …
Splash!
Howard MeansRRP: £9.99
‘This fascinating history of how, where and why humans swim…is perfect reading for those missing a splash-about during the lockdown.’ GuardianFrom the first recorded dip into what’s now the driest s …
Ten Steps To Nanette
Hannah GadsbyThe memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where …
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