Our Non-Fiction Bestsellers
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It’s the heart of the Sixties in Britain – the Beatles and the Stones vie at the top of the charts, England win the World Cup, and optimism and patriotism percolate through the streets. But this is not the full story of those…
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live…
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The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine weaves together biography, memoir and cultural history in a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex clinic housed in a…
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*New York Times Bestseller*A Book of the Year According to Financial Times and Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearFrom an indispensable voice on China comes a riveting, first-hand account…
Recommended by David
‘First published in 1989, Annie Dillard’s reflections on the craft have been an inspiration to writers for nearly 40 years.’
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Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites,…
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From award-winning poet, educator, artist and 2026 Booker Prize judge, a groundbreaking memoir about family, identity, history and language.Raymond Antrobus was diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird…
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'Essential reading for the serious visitor' TLS 'A superb book that emphasises the importance of the Tapestry as both a historical and artistic treasure' Dan Snow 'Full of many fresh insights and unexpected discoveries, providing…
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY'The best no-nonsense,…
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The global bestselling superstar 'poet of physics' returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With clarity and…
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