Driving Us Insane

Driving Us Insane reveals the presenter of TV’s cult motoring series Bottom Gear as he has never been revealed before. Week by week, car by car, stunt by stunt and challenge by challenge, it describes …

Liquid Memory

Jonathan 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 Rose

This 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 …

Engines of War

RRP: £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 …

The Ralph Steadman Book of Dogs

Ralph Steadman – artist of distinction, caricaturist of brilliance, long time unsentimental dog-lover – here shows us dogs – everywhere. Dogs in furniture; dog dictators; fashion dogs; blot dogs; beer …

Driving Like Crazy

RRP: £8.99

Jump in and buckle-up. P. J. O’Rourke delivers his rapid-fire wit from the driver’s seat of Buicks, Land Rovers, Harley-Davidsons and at least one Soviet army surplus truck. Driving Like Crazy is a hi …

Wildlife of Australia

A magnificently illustrated, authoritative and entertaining compendium of the abundant and unique animals that live on the Australian continent today.There is nothing to beat the extraordinary wildlif …

Blood, Iron and Gold

RRP: £25.00

The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and G …

Dubai

RRP: £10.99

Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai’s population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or saili …

Spiders

RRP: £9.99

Spiders are everywhere. No matter how clean, how stark, how sterile your home, the spiders will come. Spiderlings will balloon in and wait for the insects that will appear. Adult spiders will walk in. …

The Subterranean Railway

RRP: £14.99

Since the Victorian era, London’s Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determi …

The White Tiger

RRP: £9.99

***NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY******NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX PRODUCTION STARING PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND PRODUCED BY AVA DUVERNAY***’As angry, smart and dark as Parasite.’ Standar …

The Wreck of the Batavia

In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived t …

The Magic Spring

RRP: £8.99

City-dweller Richard Lewis has been having a problem with roots. His, he means. It would have been so much more romantic if he had been born in Dublin or Marseille. But what if you’re simply from Croy …