Am I Dreaming?
James KingslandRRP: £9.99
When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science journalist James Kingsland reveals how the human brain is remarkably similar. By rebooting our hard-wire …
Genre: Science, Health & Medicine
The Natural Health Service
Isabel HardmanIn 2016, Isabel Hardman’s mind, in her own words, ‘stopped working’ as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took time off on long-term sick leave and despite several relapses has return …
Endell Street
Wendy MooreWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Ander …
Quitting Plastic
Clara Williams RoldanRRP: £7.99
‘A great guide to the many things you can do to reduce your plastic footprint.’ – Craig Reucassel, ABC TV’s War on Waste Where do you start if you want to reduce the plastic in your life? Especially w …
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 …
The Home Stretch
Sally HowardForty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why?In fact, while women are making slow but steady gains on gender disparities in the workplace, at home the gap is widening …
The Impossible Climb
Mark SynnottRRP: £9.99
If you loved watching Free Solo, you’ll be enthralled by Mark Synnott’s deeply reported, insider perspective on Alex Honnold’s impossible climb.One slip, one false move, one missed toehold and you’re …
Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays
Andrew KeenRRP: £14.99
The current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challeng …
Why We Can't Sleep
Ada CalhounRRP: £14.99
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why …
A Bit of a Stretch
Chris Atkins‘Funny, shocking and powerful.’ The Secret Barrister’Fabulous. A must-read insight into why prison doesn’t work.’ Jon SnowWhere can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spic …
Infinite Powers
Steven StrogatzRRP: £9.99
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world’s foremost mathematicians.This is the captivating story of m …
How Death Becomes Life
Joshua MezrichRRP: £9.99
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be all …
How The Brain Lost Its Mind
Allan RopperIn 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpêtrière Hospital, a place that was called a ‘grand asylum of human mise …
The Book of Knowing
Gwendoline SmithRRP: £8.99
‘This book has given our daughter life’s most essential skill: the ability to notice and manage her thoughts. This skill has fundamentally changed her present and her future. We will be forever gratef …
She Speaks
Yvette CooperA powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg.’A treasure trove of trailblazers…’ Cathy NewmanLooking at lists of the greatest speeches of …
Autopia
Jon BentleyCars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormou …
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